Teamedup Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Well that is what it is called around here. Do any of you pull it off to eat on the way home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 [quote user="Teamedup"]Well that is what it is called around here. Do any of you pull it off to eat on the way home.[/quote] Always!! how can you resist the temptation!! When I was a kid, on hols at my Gran's and fetching her shopping round the village, my siblings and I would fight for the quignon! and my Gran would look at us straight : 'Elle s'appelle comment la petite souris qui a mangé le quignon?.....' Confronted with that it was not easy to keep a po face and not blush of embarrassment which showed who was the culprit........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 No because I like it with butter and Marmite, have done since I was a nipper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Isn't it expected? [:P]I used to eat it on my way back home at lunchtime... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 No idea what you lot are talking about. What is it? Doesn't even come up on google. Pat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Eating one is fine, but would you eat two?I believe it to be a big no-no... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 [quote user="Patf"]No idea what you lot are talking about. What is it? Doesn't even come up on google. Pat.[/quote]Isn't it the crusty, crunchy end of a loaf?Many years ago, queueing at the bakers, small nephew in my arms, I was alarmed to see that he appeared to be chewing on something. When I asked him what he was eating, he pointed at the end of the french loaf under the arm of the person in front of me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Hmmm...I was hoping to drag this one on a bit longer.........! [Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerise Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Our baker makes a kind of baguette called a pointu which has a particularly long end - very satisfying to munch whilst going up the road, but loaf looks a bit sad afterwards if you take both end off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 [quote user="Clair"]Eating one is fine, but would you eat two?I believe it to be a big no-no...[/quote]Definitely a no-no hence the fights we had as kids to eat it [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 [:)]LOL Patf, you have learnt another word then. I used to give it to my kids and I suspect that my eldest cut a couple of teeth on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 [quote user="Cat"]Many years ago, queueing at the bakers, small nephew in my arms, I was alarmed to see that he appeared to be chewing on something. When I asked him what he was eating, he pointed at the end of the french loaf under the arm of the person in front of me![/quote][:)][:)][:)] Loved it, Cat!!!!It reminds me of the ad on French TV about soya desserts. One very prim looking lady with her poodle, sitting on a bench. Next to her, a gentleman having his lunch. He is just opening his soya dessert, pulls the top off, and presents it to the dog to lick. The lady quickly puts her dog on her other arm, bends down, and licks the soya dessert top. You just have to see it, it always cracks me up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 When Jude goes shopping alone, the bread always looks like a mouse has been munching the end by the time it gets home. That's our bread, not the guests' bread. Obviously. [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 "looks like a mouse has been munching the end"LOLThat was always the excuse I gave to my mother. Being in the UK I , of course, had to munch the corners.Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 The mice get the blame for a lot of things around here ... [Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 [quote user="Cassis"]The mice get the blame for a lot of things around here ... [Www][/quote]They need to be employed gainfully : Blame supporter! that's good on a CV!!....[Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Just had a dilemna to try and resolve:Walked to our bakery "Marie" (new in town) where they bake some really good old-style baguettes, i.e. with lots of holes, grey-looking, not the industrial plastic muck that now passes for baguettes in too many places!Since it is a newly-opened bakery, they have their special baguettes Marie "en promotion": 4 for the price of 3.On the way back, what was I to do?What would you have done about the 4, no 8, possible quignons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I probably would have eaten 2 quignons on the way home, but not off the same stick... (gymnastics of turning the stick upside down whilst carrying more shopping... big no no) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 [quote user="5-element"]Walked to our bakery "Marie" (new in town) where they bake some really good old-style baguettes[/quote]Do they get lots of English people coming in to ask about getting a permis de construire, or to give them a bottle of Scotch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 [:D] [:D] [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Do they get lots of English people coming in to ask about getting a permis de construire, or to give them a bottle of Scotch?[/quote] They probably do, Dick, they probably do.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Around here it is called la pouce..........and our youngest has first shout at both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 Dick, two hours later, I finally GOT IT!!!!! I know I should be ashamed of myself for being so slow (I put it down to a big lunch with Languedocgal2[:D]) but I'd forgotten how many people keep calling the town hall, the "Marie". I keep wanting to correct it every time but I would hate to appear pedantic and obsessed with le mot juste.[8-|] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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