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Default The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?

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> >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.
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> Huh.... I've never bought "french" bread in the USA which didn't have
> a typically French crisp crust and soft interior.
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> Wonder where/what brands you've been buying???
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> In fact, the french "style" is such a cliche in the US that the bread
> can be TERRIBLE as long as the crust is crisp 'n crusty . . .

Wonder if there is a disconnect he All shops around me sell (also)
all shapes of plastic-bagged, hence obligatorily mushy stuff with a
1-inch capital-letter "French" on the plastic bag.

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