Incog

Aug 11 2011, 08:36 AM

Honestly? Frightening.

If I may say so, the baguette situation in France is become more perfidious at the hour. To get a very nice, fresh, tender baguette, you have to find a proper bakery that still uses traditional methods and doesn't use too many chemical substances. And do even speak to me of big distributors! Auchan, Carrefour (equivalent of Kroger or Biggs I suppose) sell the most atrocious pieces of extrusion you could ever find; the most sorry excuses of a baguette as I'd ever seen. It's incredibly insulting that the government even allows such loathsome devilry to be distributed in the first place. These kind of chemical sponges are exactly that. Press down on them and they'll compress themselves, sometimes without even making a crumb! Relieve the pressure, and the "baguette" takes its original form immediately. Like. A. Sponge.

I take my bread very seriously. Very seriously. In fact I've often times had fights with my dear mother, who comprehends absolutely nothing of the serious business that proper bread is. Many times (especially recently) she would bring us chemical extrusion, and each and every time I would flame her for doing so. My pride (and my stomach) will not allow it. I have refined taste in bread that it took a few years upon coming across the ocean from the USA to develop. It is of my opinion that the bread that comes from traditional bakeries (indeed, many bakeries produce disgusting bread these days) and from ONE large chain who has its own bakery at the entrance, l'Intermarché. For some reason this is one supermarket that seems to produce quality bread and the best one to get is the "Pavé Tranché", which is absolutely scrumptious the first day it's bought and still quite good over the next few days. Even most baguettes (the good ones) tend to dry up rather quickly, the Pavé does not have this fault.


I take my bread very seriously and news of this vending machine strikes fear into my heart.

Ultra-Musketeer

Aug 11 2011, 10:22 AM

Incog

Aug 11 2011, 08:36 AM

Honestly? Frightening.

If I may say so, the baguette situation in France is become more perfidious at the hour. To get a very nice, fresh, tender baguette, you have to find a proper bakery that still uses traditional methods and doesn't use too many chemical substances. And do even speak to me of big distributors! Auchan, Carrefour (equivalent of Kroger or Biggs I suppose) sell the most atrocious pieces of extrusion you could ever find; the most sorry excuses of a baguette as I'd ever seen. It's incredibly insulting that the government even allows such loathsome devilry to be distributed in the first place. These kind of chemical sponges are exactly that. Press down on them and they'll compress themselves, sometimes without even making a crumb! Relieve the pressure, and the "baguette" takes its original form immediately. Like. A. Sponge.

I take my bread very seriously. Very seriously. In fact I've often times had fights with my dear mother, who comprehends absolutely nothing of the serious business that proper bread is. Many times (especially recently) she would bring us chemical extrusion, and each and every time I would flame her for doing so. My pride (and my stomach) will not allow it. I have refined taste in bread that it took a few years upon coming across the ocean from the USA to develop. It is of my opinion that the bread that comes from traditional bakeries (indeed, many bakeries produce disgusting bread these days) and from ONE large chain who has its own bakery at the entrance, l'Intermarché. For some reason this is one supermarket that seems to produce quality bread and the best one to get is the "Pavé Tranché", which is absolutely scrumptious the first day it's bought and still quite good over the next few days. Even most baguettes (the good ones) tend to dry up rather quickly, the Pavé does not have this fault.


I take my bread very seriously and news of this vending machine strikes fear into my heart.

lmao

MaxJ

Aug 11 2011, 01:36 PM

I'll have to agree with you. I guess bread from that machine is eatable but I won't eat it for my pleasure. Good bread is very important. But I never really have problems buying bread at a boulangerie in France, the only problem is too much white bread. So I try to eat some Pain Complet too or other kinds of bread in stead of baguettes and croissants only.

But I also have to admit something, since a month or three do we bake our own bread in the supermarket I work. And that bread is delicious(especially when it comes just out of the oven), even the baguettes are okay!

Hyperactive Jam

Aug 11 2011, 01:51 PM

Maybe you should make your own bread then Incy.