{"id":11867,"date":"2015-11-17T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11867"},"modified":"2015-11-17T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:33:21","slug":"la-vie-de-baguette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11867","title":{"rendered":"La vie de baguette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best-known type of French bread is the baguette, which was possibly introduced to France in the early 19th century by August Zang from Austria, though that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baguette\">another story<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Baguettes only stay fresh for a day, so what do you do with them once they start to go hard? <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few possibilities:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/vie_de_baguette.gif\"  width=\"650\" height=\"451\" alt=\"La vie de baguette - a cartoon showing ways in which the French use their baguettes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a translation:<\/p>\n<p>1. First Day: sliced with butter, sandwich<br \/>\n2. Second Day: toast<br \/>\n3. Third Day: French toast (&#8220;lost bread&#8221;)<br \/>\n4. Fourth Day: croutons, crumbs for the pigeons<br \/>\n5. Fifth Day: hammer, golf club<\/p>\n<p><em>Image supplied by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/french\/frantastique.htm\">Frantastique<\/a>, who can teach you all about the bizarre French cuisine, and help you to learn French.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was told that if your baguette is a bit stale you can revive it by sprinkling a bit of water on slices and blasting them in a microwave for a short while. I haven&#8217;t tried this as I&#8217;m am microwaveless.<\/p>\n<p>The French word <em>baguette<\/em> can also refer to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a magic wand = baguette magique; baguette de f\u00e9e; baguette de sourcler<br \/>\n&#8211; chopsticks = baguettes chinoises<br \/>\n&#8211; conductor&#8217;s baton = baguette de direction; baguette de chef d&#8217;orchestre<br \/>\n&#8211; a drumstick = baguette de tambour<\/p>\n<p>Expressions incorporating baguette include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; sous la baguette de &#8230; = conducted by &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; faire marcher qn \u00e0 la baguette = to rule sb with an iron hand<\/p>\n<p>What are baguettes called in your country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best-known type of French bread is the baguette, which was possibly introduced to France in the early 19th century by August Zang from Austria, though that&#8217;s another story. Baguettes only stay fresh for a day, so what do you do with them once they start to go hard? Here are a few possibilities: Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}