In the UK we like our bread, but unfortunately we’ve become terribly accepting of mediocre, bland choices. The French have a completely different attitude to bread, and it’s well worth visiting France just for the experience of freshly baked bread. Whilst over here the variety of bread on offer has grown quite significantly of late, it’s still a far cry from what you can find in even an average little town in rural France.

Visit a supermarket in the UK and your choices often range wildly between sliced brown bread and sliced white bread. You can find sliced white bread that doesn’t have any crust, and brown bread without a crust, then of course there’s the thick slices, thin slices and medium slices, not to mention the tall loaves and the square loaves. But ultimately it all boils down to blandness, and frankly even the ducks are getting sick of it.
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