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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
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!