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While we are at it, can someone tell me why french beard is called so and how it originated?
by mkagenius 10y ago
While we are at it, can someone tell me why french beard is called so and how it originated?
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoI don't know the etymology, but I do know that french bread can contain only flour, water, yeast and salt. Any other ingredients and it is not french bread.
- Turing_Machine 10y ago(assuming you actually meant "French bread") In my experience, "French bread" refers to a baguette-shaped whole loaf, which is pretty much the default for bread in France. Traditional British and American loaves have a much different shape (wider and thicker, rather than elongated). I would speculate that the term "French bread" was created by the British to distinguish it from the loaf shape they were used to at home. If you really did mean "French beard", I don't have a clue. :-)