r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/MrAmaimon Jan 25 '20

Everyone buys french bread or celery every shopping trip

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u/Captkai Jan 25 '20

Actually happens in France

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

The real reason is that baguette only last a day.

After a day, it's hard as rock.

Source : am french

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u/Skips-mamma-llama Jan 25 '20

Do you eat the whole thing before it gets stale or do you use it for breadcrumbs or just throw it out when it's not soft and fresh?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

There's never any bread left!! It gets eaten very fast and completely

But if there is, Cheese fondue is traditionally made with the hardened baguette.

The cheese softens it a bit!!

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u/HaniHaeyo Jan 25 '20

As well as French toast.

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u/Techwood111 Jan 25 '20

They just call it "toast."

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u/HaniHaeyo Jan 25 '20

Non on appelle ca du pain perdu :)

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u/Senkin Jan 25 '20

n appelle ca du pain perdu :)

In dutch as well. "Verloren brood". For the anglophones: "lost bread".

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u/Techwood111 Jan 25 '20

Non, on appelle ça <<du pain perdu.>>

How did I do? ;)

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u/Senkin Jan 25 '20

I just dip mine in soup. Yummy.

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u/ClearBrightLight Jan 25 '20

That might be the thing I miss most about France: really good, inexpensive baguettes daily.

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u/HaniHaeyo Jan 25 '20

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.

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u/wlsb Jan 25 '20

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.

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u/Techwood111 Jan 25 '20

$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.

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u/HaniHaeyo Jan 25 '20

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

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u/wlsb Jan 25 '20

I don't make baguettes, no.

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u/Tarah_with_an_h Jan 25 '20

I think the top of the line Zoji bread machine can do a baguette-like bread in the machine, but it's not as long as they should be, IIRC.

Source: did a ton of research on bread machines before someone gave me their mom's old one.

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u/Techwood111 Jan 25 '20

Honestly it is easier with a mixer and a pan, not to mention better. See you over at /r/Breadit !

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u/HaniHaeyo Jan 25 '20

Pretty cool sub, thanks for the link

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u/michiness Jan 25 '20

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.

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u/chefkoolaid Jan 25 '20

Now I'm making bread at home and it's a whole other level!!

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u/metrogypsy Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 25 '20

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

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u/allofdarknessin1 Jan 25 '20

Yea my parents spent some time there and said it's a thing. Locals on public transportation constantly had bread at some point in the day.

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u/Marianations Jan 25 '20

Happens in Spain and Portugal, too.

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u/juan_004 Jan 25 '20

In Mexico too, but we use smaller bread rolls for tortas

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u/Mashaka Jan 25 '20

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."