On 5 Aug 2006 14:14:59 -0700, "Raymond S. Wise"
> wrote:

>
>Wayland wrote:
>> On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:11:55 GMT, Wayland >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:03:14 GMT, The Duct Tape Avenger
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>Lars Eighner wrote:
>> >>> In our last episode,
>> >>> >,
>> >>> the lovely and talented Wayland
>> >>> broadcast on alt.usage.english:
>> >>>
>> >>>> So the Super Wal-Mart near me has "Value Added" French Bread
>> >>(snip)
>> >>>
>> >>> You make sandwiches from baguettes? The horror! The horror!
>> >>
>> >>It's actually Italian bread, not French.
>> >
>> >Eh, I knew it was one of those European counties.
>>
>> I just made a sandwich, it says French on the bag.
>
>
>I just took a look at the entry "French bread" in several online
>dictionaries. None of them appears to cover what is traditionally
>called "French bread" in the US. In particular, the dictionary
>definitions refer to a crisp crust, but as it is traditionally made in
>the US, French bread has a crust which is hardly more crisp than that
>of an ordinary American loaf of bread.

If you buy the prebaked and packaged bread on teh shelves that's
what you'll get. But fresh-baked bread at the bakery is pretty
good.

Not always that easy to find, of course, except in certain areas
of the US. Now that we're here in Tucson one of the things we
really miss about our years in and around San Francisco is the
bread, especially the sourdough, which isn't teh same here at
all.


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