THE INGREDIENTS OF A BAGUETTE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE INSIDE OF THE BREAD, NOT ALONG THE FLIPPIN EDGE!
I mean, I’m all for good presentation with food and realise that the ingredients perched tantalisingly along the opening serves the purpose of wooing the sandwich enthusiast, but really…
Every time I buy a baguette, I have to spend my time prodding the ingredients back into the actual bread-cavity so as they don’t all spill all over the floor!
I just had a nice brie and cranberry example. The cheese was positioned satisfactorily but the cranberry sauce was such that I suspect it had been ‘piped’ along the bread-crevasse with a silicone gun!
Baguette makers, HAVE A WORD!
***A baguette yesterday, featuring loading biased toward fashion, not function.
The french know how to make a proper baguette sarnie. Greggs, definitely do not. In fact Greggs have completely lost the plot in making anything even half edible*
Baguettes are actually a pretty poor sandwich body, especially if, as is typical, a hinge is maintained. The Ciabatta would soon take over thanks to its superior structural integrity if only people weren’t determined to bake them to the palatability of shoe leather in order to make them go extra crispy when toasted.
On an separate note my bread-geek side takes umbrage with calling that a baguette. It appears to be some kind of enriched dough baton.
tis but a tiny irritation when compared to the horror of eating a soft filling in a crunchy baguette.
Was half way through an avocado and crayfish abomination when an attractive woman starting engaging with me (rare enough). The ensuing carnage as I tried to stop the baguette contents slithering into my lap showed up as utter revulsion on the poor victims face.
But you do have the inferno moment when you bite into what you think is a nice temperate pasty and suddenly molten ‘steak’ gravy greets the top of your mouth and tongue like it’s the bastard step-child returning home from borstal
scotlandthedave – Member
baguettes also tear the roof of your mouth to shreds.
+ 1 this ^^
Currently flavour in Town is Twice Baked Baguettes with pesto replacing butter and then all sorts of crap as a filling.. Nice that may sounds, twice baked bread is a stupid idea.
I remember buying a prawn sandwich from a café in Cornwall. There was a nice neat line of prawns along the visible edge of the sandwich and bugger all else further back.
It must be quite a skill to build a sandwich in such a stingy way.
until you bite into one edge of a steak bake and have a pyroclastic flow of super-heated “meat” slurry burst out of the bottom melting the flesh from your fingers and bespoiling your shirt
DaveyBoyWonder – obviously no sane-minded person would forsake the unbridled joy of the double sausage and egg McMuffin for a mere wrap.
But I just thought I’d highlight the existance of the Heart Attack Wrap for the uninitiated who thought that all wraps must be some abomination that contains sundried tomatoes, roasted peppers and goats cheese
baguettes also tear the roof of your mouth to shreds.
Now here’s a top life tip… up there with not drinking in a flat roofed pub, never eating yellow snow and stand where the “stay back” line is worn away on a rail platform edge.
I only recently learnt it myself… it’s brilliant in its simplicity and effectiveness.
Eat that roof of mouth ripping baguettes …. UPSIDE DOWN !!
The hard crust is now on your tongue where it does no damage.
baguettes also tear the roof of your mouth to shreds.
#delicatechild 🙂
Some baguettes are over filled,a faff to eat,and (as a clever person up there^^ noted)the hinge is a bad design.So what you do ,is ask for another empty baguette,then shovel half the filling in to it.
Almost two for the price of one an a bit. 😉
A friend of mine once “had a word” in a Little Chef about the toast being sliced diagonally. Posh looking but useless, he argued, for piling bacon onto. Exit waitress, nonplussed.
DaveyBoyWonder – at least we’re not getting into paninis, which everyone knows are just inferior, overpriced, poncey toasties with delusions of grandeur.
Anyway, the correct answer is a cheese salad sandwich (cheshire cheese ideally) on nice thick brown bread, with a little bit of salad cream. No, repeat, no pickle.