It's The Holidays -- Everyone Is A LIttle Bit Loopy
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But wait, mon cherie, zee fries they are not French, they are Belgium, no?
Country French Bread
This last piece of nonsense actually came out this morning, as I made my sandwich for lunch. I'd bought this loaf of Koepplinger's Country French bread and was commenting to Mrs. Dr. Phil that I'd bought it because I'd already tried various breadmaker's (pseudo) German, Italian and Dutch breads, but I was sure the French would object.
Zees eez not French bread! Eet is some sort of bastard American white bread, no? There eez no crunchy crust, no long baguette, no aroma, no eet eez never packed in a plastic bag -- eet eez not French bread. No Frenchman would stand to eat such a thing!
Anyway, it makes a nice sandwich with a slice of processed American cheese, a cut up hot dog and some Heinz ketchup.
Sacre bleu!
Dr. Phil
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But wait, mon cherie, zee fries they are not French, they are Belgium, no?
Country French Bread
This last piece of nonsense actually came out this morning, as I made my sandwich for lunch. I'd bought this loaf of Koepplinger's Country French bread and was commenting to Mrs. Dr. Phil that I'd bought it because I'd already tried various breadmaker's (pseudo) German, Italian and Dutch breads, but I was sure the French would object.
Zees eez not French bread! Eet is some sort of bastard American white bread, no? There eez no crunchy crust, no long baguette, no aroma, no eet eez never packed in a plastic bag -- eet eez not French bread. No Frenchman would stand to eat such a thing!
Anyway, it makes a nice sandwich with a slice of processed American cheese, a cut up hot dog and some Heinz ketchup.
Sacre bleu!
Dr. Phil
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Date: Friday, 14 December 2007 22:27 (UTC)TV Narrator: [on television] Although each of the world's countries would like to dispute this fact, we French know the truth: The best food in the world is made in France.
And also, you have Colette waxing lyrical about the sound of the crust being pressed as the true way to know (without eating it) that a loaf of bread is good.
(I went to the Koepplinger's Web site and saw the pics of the breads and there's no way that loaf could make a crinkly-crackly sound.)
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Date: Saturday, 15 December 2007 20:09 (UTC)And my point exactly about the "Country French" bread crusts... On the other hand, for white bread it's pretty damned good.
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