This bagette doesn’t look lovely nor fresh
If it’s in that kind of bag (with little holes in it), it was definitely freshly baked that day. That kind of bag is designed to keep the bread crispy, but it can only be used on the day it was baked, or the bread will become hard as rock the next day. If a loaf is going to be kept and sold the next day, it has to be rebagged into a solid plastc bag to keep it fresh. “Lovely” is subjective. It’s a grocery store baguette.
Plasticbags for bread feel very sus.
They fucking bag everything in North America (and East Asia). It’s ridiculous.
In a regular bakery, the bread is behind the counter, out of reach of the patrons, correct? In a grocery store, it’s all on the shelf, where anyone can touch it. This is much more sanitary. I wouldn’t buy any that weren’t wrapped up.
No, most grocery stores in Europe have bread in a specific bread container that had a lid on it. You open the lid, take out a baguette and close the lid falls down again. They compartments inside the container get regularly refilled from the back where they are baked. I’ve seen this setup even in cheapo-chains like Aldi and Lidl.
That’s great, but what do you put the bread into? A plastic bag, or do people just carry them around bare? What happens if someone drops it and decides they want another, or just changes their mind about buying one? In North America, they’ll probably just put it back in the bin. Now the next person gets floor bread or, at least, something that someone else has been carrying around until they changed their mind.
All bigger chains I have visited seem to have paper like bags for bread stuff. Plastic bags also exist, but those are usually in other grocery sections.
In theory you could pack it in your own container if you wish, do not think anyone would have issues with that, but I have never seen anyone doing that.
In paper. So we all don’t die
Paper bags have to be left open to let the moisture vent and allow the bread to crisp. That doesn’t work on the grocery store floor. We tried it. Our first bags were paper.
??? The rest of the world uses paper bags for almost everything, you can’t convince me that in usa you have to use non decomposable dead dinosaur bags because you have to throw the bread on floors??
Can confirm. At least now they’re asking for some things, instead of doing it automatically.
Ok, in all fairness it may very well be freashly baked, but from a factory. This bagette is made industrially. It’s very clear from it’s appearance (even ignoring the plastic bag). This bagette does not taste good and in only few hours time it will be dry as hell.
As a proud snail slurper, I don’t trust no bagette coming in a plastic bag!
Bread doesn’t last long enough in this kind of bag for it to have been baked in a factory and shipped to the store. It’s baked fresh in the store that day. It’a baked from a “bread base” (think cake mix, but for bread), to which yeast and water are added. It’s mixed, proofed, then baked, all on-site in the bakery. Source: me! I worked in a grocery store bakery.
But, plenty of chain grocery stores do have their bread baked off-site and delivered.
So? Do you usually eat the baguette as a whole, deepthroating the thing or what?
How else do I prepare for my sword swallowing competition
I have…thoughts.
Does smoosh the shit out of about 20% of the loaf. Definitely a bummer.
They were probably going to make one of those really long sandwiches like on Scooby Doo
She needs to watch French movies where they always have a baguette sticking out of their grocery bag.
It’s always a baguette and some celery
Those are leeks sir
only one baguette? smh
I think I’m too european to understand this meme
Plastic wrapped baguette??
That’s weird as well, but what I meant is in Europe you pack your groceries yourself
This OP picture is from somewhere in Europe. “Till” is the English word, while Americans would say something like cash register or check out counter. And SPAR is a European chain of grocery stores
Fair points!
She’s Irish, and has possibly one of the most Irish names I’ve ever seen.
I’m guessing ROI.
But in the U.S our food is not fresh enough to be bagged by the customer. It must be wrapped so it can sit out for a considerable duration.
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what about it?
Some places in the UK will ask if you want help packing your bags.
interesting, didn’t know that despite having lived in the UK and Ireland for a while
Oh, right.
Maybe we should look into that to reduce unemployment.
The Asian model, create endless useless jobs to make sure everyone can have something to do even if it’s just standing in front of a parking entrance to point people in.
So like Walmart greeters
David Graeber wants to speak with you
A meme on a folded baguettes getting to bullshit jobs is the dream
Labor for the sake of it. What an American response.
How else are people going to learn useful life skills such as baguette origami?
Colruyt insists on their weird “cashier tranfers the items into another cart while scanning and bags them for you while they’re at it” strategy. And they do own the Spar brand in Belgium.
Although as franchisees some of the Spar stores keep the regular tills. Unfortunately mine does the weird cart transfer thing, which is much slower, though apparently it deters theft…?
At expensive American grocery stores, they have baggers.
At my local Price Chopper they have occasional baggers. It’s definitely not an expensive store.
Expensive?
Exactly what I’m referring to
I’m from the “European country” known as UK and every single major store sells plastic wrapped baguettes. You only see them in paper in the smaller shops
It’s a plastic bag with tiny holes in it. These are on the store floor, where people can grab a baguette for themselves. The plastic keeps the braguette relatively safe, and the holes allow moisture to escape, keeping the baguette crispy for the day
Oddly enough, most American supermarkets put every baguette they bake that day (if they bake it that day) in plastic bags. Although in this case, I believe they mean that they broke the baguette in the plastic bag in half so it would fit in the bag with the rest of the groceries.
The meme is also European, from Ireland. That said, I’m more interested which Spar is selling long enough baguettes that they don’t fit in a bag. My local shops don’t.
I know lidl sell the big baguettes like this
Thanks; I’ll try it. I usually get bread and sparkling water there (their produce and meat quality got so bad I switched to Aldi), but I haven’t been looking for baguettes yet.
Americans still feeling superior because their country has solved this problem by selling sliced bread.
Imagine buying a presliced baguette tho ahahah
meh, as if europe had no bread slicing machines in supermarkets
Congrats on getting half the joke.
The other half is that Europeans would not equate a loaf to a baguette.
+1 point for bending it half
+10 points if she used her knee
+20 if she blew smoke in your face and told you to get out
Ah, nineties Spar. The pick-and-mix was right under her ashtray. I can still taste the strawberry laces with a hint of Pall Mall.
I’m sorry the title joke was stolen from beard_necessities_of_life on insta. Hbomberguy video has me scared of plagiarism
You’ve done it now. I can’t wait for the 7 hour exposé on your crimes
So? It’s not like you’re gonna get banned here, lol 😂.
Who knows? That hbomberguy is relentless.
He could be here already! He might be any one of us!
unbroken baguettes are a privilege of those who use reusable bags and bag their own groceries
First world problems. I wouldn’t give a shit because I am cutting that thing up anyway.
Yeah, I was thinking this is a bit ridiculous. That sucker looks to be an easy 2 or so feet long. Unless you’re making something that’s extremely long it’s getting cut up anyway.
Squashing bread is a true crime.
Pretty sure the baguette still works.
Personally, I tend to eat half by the time I get to the car, so I would consider this good customer service.
I’m french and I’ve never heard about breaking a baguette being “bad”. Sure, the broken tips are gonna go dry a little faster but it’s not a big deal
My first thought when I saw this post was, “That’s not a baguette, that’s french bread.” I never connected that the gigantic long bread at the store with the stale dry crust that they label as “french bread” is supposed to be a baguette, which is French. Like they are too ashamed to actually call it a baguette because it kind of sucks but that’s definitely what it’s supposed to be.
Is french bread a regional thing in the US?
They call it stick bread (stokbrood) where I’m from, and I’ve seen it called french sticks in the UK. I guess we all just can’t accept the french having a reasonable name for something.
‘Baguette’ is literrally the French word for stick.
In the US, baguette refers to the shape, so you can get a “sourdough baguette” which is not French style bread, or “sourdough french bread” which can be either sourdough in baguette shape or a round loaf of French style sourdough or American style sourdough made with French sourdough culture and you can get “French sandwich rolls” and “Sliced French bread” which are both made with the same ingredients that French baguettes are- flour, water, yeast and salt.
Where I come from they’d tie her limbs to 3 horses and have the horses run away from each other.
Which horse gets two limbs?
That is such an ableist comment omg
Look, recognizing that the vast, vast majority of people have 4 limbs is not ableist, and I’m sorry that you’re so interested in being offended on somebody else’s behalf that you think it is.
I’m not totally certain, but I think it was a joke.
That is so ableist against people with no sense of humor omg
Gary
maybe one arm or leg gets to remain intact.
Does it matter if that bitch is getting cut up anyway? Unless you’re about to Scooby Do that shit
This lady sounds mad. I’d be impressed at how real that cashier is keeping it.
Life pro tip, never eat the middle part of a baguette in France
Hérétique
