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Bread is an interesting one in France, as there are standards for most breads (only certain ingredients and processes allowed) and you can only call it a bakery if it meets certain criteria - eg all bread made on site, from start to finish, offering a certain range of breads, including local types etc.
Where as in the uk you can call any load basically anything you want. Lots of sour-faux on the shelves round here!
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I'll never forget the baguette van guy not selling me a baguette because they were all still frozen. We'd started TCR on a Fri night or something so travelling over France Sat, Sun and then Monday was some public holiday. The guy is lucky I didn't break in and put him in his grill and run off with armfulls of frozen baguettes :)
hippy
Bingo.
You can find the best stuff here in the UK if you know where to look, but generally, in any random shop in France, Italy, Spain, etc you will find better stuff for much less.
I don't know why I mentioned France. Nothing is open there, ever :)
Melbourne is like that - I remember walking into some random suburban bakery and getting a better cappucino from there than I'd had in any chain cafe in the UK anywhere in 10 years.