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siddo Wrote:

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> I always thought that a shop that sold bread was

> called a bakers. You learn something new every day

> in East Dulwich or should I say North Calais?


Hey Grandad, have you tried buying a cup of coffee anywhere in the UK this century? Requires an Italian language lesson followed by a brief on Australian/American slang.


And we started calling greasy spoons "cafes" in the 1950s.

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"Bakery" is OK in my book. The dictionary definition is a place where break/cakes are made/sold.


Describing a shop as a "butchery" though... that really does annoy me. It's like a painters and decorators business calling themselves "the decorating".

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david_carnell Wrote:

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> Will your French bread goods match this in price?


Oooh let's take a guess!


The French are crazy about their bread though, aren't they? Queues out of the door in any decent neighbourhood bakery on a daily basis...

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DaveR Wrote:

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> "I believe baguettes in France are price

> controlled"

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> Not since 1978.


I stand corrected. Bizarre how that's before I was born yet something I've always thought was true.


Still, online searching shows the baguette voted best in Paris still on costs 1.2 euros or about ?1.


Why can't that be done here by good bakers? Overheads can't be that different can they?

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In colloquial Egyptian Arabic the word for bread and the word for life are the same - aish.


Here in post-Thatcher Britain, of course, bread means money.


This is the sort of faux profundity that sounds best delivered over a glass of coffee and a pair of worn corduroys, so I am just the tw*t to make it.

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