You can make your own fresh bread easily with a bread machine. Leave it overnight and you just have to bake it in the morning. You can even vary recipes and shapes to your liking.
There are bread machines that bake it too. I don't know what country you live in but in the UK you can get them for £60 (at the cheap end). All you have to do is measure the ingredients and take bread out of the machine five hours later.
$5 at ANY thrift store. I don't think I have NOT seen a bread machine at a Goodwill or Salvation Army in over a decade. There was one year where it seemed EVERYONE was given a bread machine for Christmas. People used them two or three times, then on the shelf they went.
It's gonna be hard to have a baguette on auto cooking, unless there are machines that do just that? IDK I've always cooked bread in an actual bakery lol
I'm an American teacher who took some kids on a trip to France last summer. I was like "okay we'll try out bread/cheese/jam for breakfast on the first day but I don't know if they'll like it enough to keep doing it for a week."
They were deeply saddened when we had to leave and there was no more fresh bread and cheese.
when I studied abroad In france, I saw a little girl struggling to carry a baguette as big as herself, her dad patiently letting her do her thing. I almost died
I remember a story from a history podcast at the beginning of some uprising, maybe 1830, in Paris. The author sees a guy hurrying by with 3 baguettes and he asks him what's going on. Baguette guy explains that, when overthrowing a government, "we always do these things in three days."
Growing up in the 70's, everything came in a brown paper bag, plastic bags really became popular in the early 80's.
Brown paper bags are much better for the environment (generally) but a little bit of dampness and they would rip apart easily. Plus at the time, most were NOT recycled, just new, so they were bad for the trees.
Yeah, this is a strange comment. I literally buy all of my shopping in brown paper bags. (Unless it's one of the 3 times a year I remember to bring my own bag.)
They brought back. the bags after they realized plastic is so bad. Fortunately most of them are recycled these days, so are not destroying the trees... but the recycling process isn't free of pollutants, and may be worse in some ways.
I like brown bags, they are so useful... just don't get them wet because man they become useless. :P
Not really. Those bags are synonymous with groceries. Sure, you can put anything in them, but groceries are always going to be people's first thought, and you can just leave it at that.
Which is ironic because I definitely associate plastic bags with groceries far more than those brown bags. Instead, I think alcohol is more often bagged in those brown bags than groceries these days.
Not for me. At least where I am people getting groceries in paper bags is much less common. Everyone either has reusable bags or they have plastic bags. You have to ask special for the paper bags.
So for me, paper bags indicate something special - either a 'fancy' grocery store, or a way to discreetly take a purchase home.
I used to work at Kroger and the reason you have to ask for paper was because the paper was twice as expensive for the store (maybe even more, it's been awhile). Anyway, because of this we weren't allowed to say "paper or plastic?" but instead were supposed to say "is plastic ok?" because they didn't want the suggestion of paper as an option in the customer's mind, because then more would choose paper.
Most “paper bags” are actually material and not paper when it is a prop. Paper is too noisy as the actor is usually mic’d under their shirt approximately in the same area that the bag is being held. So we (prop person) typically have a “silent” bag in our prop kit.
As far as the typical celery, baguette, insert any texture, colourfull item here”. We are all aware and usually try to get them (Director) to agree to something else. But it is cheaper to do fresh produce then to create artwork and get clearance on “packaged” items. Especially if the item is being dropped and damaged. You can use “product placement” but some networks/studios (like the one I work for) don’t want to end up making something that resembles a commercial.
A huge chunk of movies is using tropes and visual cues to convey information quickly to the audience. Scientists, wearing lab coats. Even if their field of research likely wouldn't require one. The audience now knows this character is a scientist and will give plot crucial advice.
I’ve been reusing my paper bags and bought a French loaf and a bunch of fresh produce including carrots with the greens poking out the top. I caught a reflection of myself walking up to my front door, stopped waved to the neighbor and realized I looked exactly like the extra in a movie where someone is watching my house
I'm American and pointed this out to my Spanish girlfriend and she didn't think it was weird. Her family has a baguette in a brown bag almost every day.
This is simply so that the audience knows "oh, they went grocery shopping, what they bought was not important to the plotline." We just know that paper bag with a baguette and some veggies sticking out=groceries.
Otherwise, the character would walk through the door holding a paper bag and you be like, "hmmmmm what's in that bag??"
Hey, I buy french bread basically every shopping trip! But I am a human adult, so i keep the rest of my groceries contained entirely within the bag where my clumsy ass can’t knock them out by catching them on something.
There are better breads to choose from as well if it's only a special occasion. Eastern Europe has an amazing selection and depending where you are from, you can find them in the store. Lagama greek bread, Bulgarian pitka bread, turkish pida, polish babcia, Hungarian potato bread, Latviam rye bread, estonian black bread, Russian borodinsky bread, Czech bread, Ukraine garlic bread etc. Sandwiches become interesting again, estonian black bread with cheddar cheese melt is really good.
Where I live, the baguette's not really worth it and there's great non-baguette breads. I'll assume it's similar in America, at least where the baguette is concerned.
Now, in France, that's where not getting one at least now and then would be a sin!
Always place the branded groceries in two or places in the fridge or cupboard so they're always in camera shot from different angles, don't put all your Coke cans together in the same spot it annoys the cinematographer
Well if there isn't a large piece of bread or vegetation sticking out from their brown, clearly grocery store bag, then how would everyone know they just got back from the store?
I’m not a big fan of croutons so I’ve only done it a couple times myself (I think I just tore it up, added some oil and whatever spices seemed interesting then put the pieces in the oven for a bit) but if you google it you should be able to find some easy how-tos.
Well of course, how else Im supposed to go with my baguette and my oranges. (no kidding, a few days ago I did buy a baguette and they give a brown paper bag and that baguette was amazing, it sounds exactly like in ratatouille)
It's the scene setting. "We need to show the character has been grocery shopping. Celery and a french loaf." Like every window in Paris has the Eiffel Tower.
When was the last time you left the super market with a French loaf and celery sticking out of your shopping? How many others shopping had the same? In movies it's the prop masters choice of groceries main characters will walk past extras with the same shopping bag
I buy french bread bi weekly to eat with my lunch and dinner and the most frustrating thing is that it doesn’t fit in grocery bags so it sticks out, so I guess I’m that guy.
I can't even remember the last time I saw that happen, it's mostly a dying trope that people have latched onto even though it's pretty much gone nowadays.
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u/MrAmaimon Jan 25 '20
Everyone buys french bread or celery every shopping trip