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Butter. The secret ingredient is butter. A few years ago, I spent about six months living in Paris and ate dozens, if not hundreds, of these sandwiches. My con
by keiferski 5y ago
Butter. The secret ingredient is butter.
A few years ago, I spent about six months living in Paris and ate dozens, if not hundreds, of these sandwiches. My conclusions were:
- the bread is very crisp, light and fresh. It’s never heavy, doesn’t have other add-ons like oats or rye, and is never toasted or cooked
- a generous amount of butter is added. This is what adds that special flavor and makes the sandwiches taste amazing
- whartung 5y agoThis sounds suspiciously accurate. I have no memory of butter being in the sandwich, but that would not surprise me at all. It's not like these are fancy. They're not novel. They're everywhere, and they collectively makes hundreds of them, in advance, to an apparently insatiable market. And I have no doubt that the shopkeepers are as lazy as they can be, just like all shopkeepers, just like all of us, putting in just enough effort to meet the need and no more. Just some guy making sandwiches from routine, local ingredients. As I mentioned also, the one in the airport was good. The airport! That bastion of fine dining world wide. But, yea, they left a mark. They're wonderful.
- suction 5y agoThere is no butter in baguettes in France. It's actually forbidden by law.
- keiferski 5y agoButter is added on the sandwich, not in the baguette itself as an ingredient.
- suction 5y agoYet you said ingredient.
- keiferski 5y agoThe secret ingredient is an expression that does not literally mean "the ingredient inside the bread." Regardless of that, the word ingredient can certainly be used to mean the components added to a sandwich. I thought this was obvious by the context, but apologies if that wasn't clear.
- gpvos 5y agoNot sure why you're misinterpreting the parent post like that. It's obviously on the baguettes (or for the pedants, between the two slices).
- gpvos 5y agoThe butter is good, but it's really that attention has been paid to all ingredients. And the bread is just really good.
- kfrzcode 5y agoButter salt and MSG are the chefs secret weapons