This week I’ve been mostly eating baguette

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 17:41 | categories: Food

When thinking about France one of the first things that usually pops in one’s head is baguettes. Prior to coming here I knew that the French eat a lot of them, but I never realized just how much they in fact consume these fallic symbols of all things tasty. While being in a regular supermarket, the shelf of baguettes will most likely be emptied and filled, all that while you’re doing your everyday shopping. A normal ~60 cm baguette will cost anywhere from 40 cents to 1,20€ depending on whether you buy it from an artisan boulangerie or a regular supermarket.

There’s really no way to avoid baguettes here: if you order a sandwich or a panini here, you’ll get a baguette filled with stuff. Even hot dogs are just baguettes with a sausage. If you watch people coming out of shops, they will most likely carry one or two baguettes with them. Like them or not, you will end up eating baguettes in France.