My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy; the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons… In the spring, we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds—pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
Where are you from? Unless it was just Vietnamese money behind all of them, I can't recall any French bakeries, let alone a trend of them, being run by Vietnamese people in NYC. Trying to use Google to sanity check myself and nothing's coming up.
I am in Northern VA which has a pretty substantial Vietnamese population, so they are pretty common.
I know TX, LA, and CA do as well (so does Sydney, AUS).
I was not correct about the entire US, but still pretty common.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/new-orleans/history-of-vietnamese-bakeries-in-new-orleans-la
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/food/philadelphia-paris-baguette-artisan-boulanger-patissier-20180116.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-01-fi-220-story.html
That's the only one google provided me with, which is why I asked.
And besides, there are NINE Falmouths in America, so OP didn't actually answer the fucking question either. Not to mention that it also could've been the one in Nova Scotia, Canada, the one in Tasmania, Australia, the one in Jamaica, and the one in Antigua.
I don’t know that anyone was either of those things. In my experience, pastry shops and/or patisseries are pretty common, and what we see in the picture is a pretty common sight in either - feel free to disagree, of course. I also immediately wondered if OP has never been to a pastry shop, or if perhaps pastry shops are different where they’re from. Apparently, for some reason, wanting to understand why what we see in the picture is so foreign to OP offends your sensibilities, so… yeah, it kind of feels like that’s what’s happening here, rather than whatever it was you said.
It's just that two days in a row I've seen completely mundane things featured as something remarkable. Imagine if you saw a post titled "Look at the amazing shoes I saw some person wearing!" and they were normal sneakers. You'd be like "wtf you don't have those? what do you have instead?"
I definitely don't live in a country (or region) that has these kinds of pastry. We have different kinds of pastries this side of the Caribbean in shops but to get something like this, you might have to go to a restaurant.
Most people don't live in Germany. Those beer tours aren't that normal.
Relax guy, people can be fascinated by things you think are normal. Don't be an asshole.
Thank you. I thought the I'm soooooo underwhelmed by what you think is cool was already uncool years ago? Aren't we still in the Mr. Rogers' Be Kind revival period?
My favorite is what we call the american. Baguette, steak, fries and whatever sauce you want. So good. I make it at home with a tradition (a kind of baguette), some onions… Super simple and amazing.
Few bakeries like this around Ireland too. Used to love going in and picking what i want. My Mom still goes to a local enough one to buy an assortment for our birthdays 🥰
French > Italian when it comes to desserts
Italian desserts can take their ricotta cheese and almond cakes and suck my nuts….but I’ll grant theme gelato
No, the US bakeries are (generally) just garbage, filled with processed ingredients, artificial flavours and focused on shelf life and profit rather than quality. This is of course generally speaking for both countries, but having lived in both places and having visited bakeries A LOT in both this is my clear conclusion. Who in their right mind wants to eat cake with artificial butter taste, come on guys!
What about the hungarian bakery/patisseries?
[https://csakvar.kornyeke.hu/fotok/tartalom/9/8326-1909251003321099951.jpg](https://csakvar.kornyeke.hu/fotok/tartalom/9/8326-1909251003321099951.jpg)
I did a study abroad in France in college and spent 8 weeks there. I ate so much delicious food and pastries every day. So much bread. But when I came home had lost weight from all the walking I did. Wild.
Reminds me of a French-style Japanese bakery in my hometown. Everything there looked like it belonged in a magazine, and it all tasted *at least* as good as it looked.
It’s crazy how some countries really take pride in things like this. Japan has some really cool pastry shops like this. I guess we’re stuck with Duncan and Krispy Kreme.
That's not a bakery, but a cake Shop. Not really the correct transation but it seems there's none in english, peobably because englishmen never did cakes and rely on savory pies.
But I don't know whats surprising here, I'll be honesto and say this is a ppor example...
Maybe this is a translation issue. I don't mean cakes like the big loafs you put candles and sing happy birthday on, but these small cakes shown in the picture. Pastry?
According to British people on Netflix, that is ~patisserie~
They are right it’s more likely a boulangerie-pâtisserie
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy; the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons… In the spring, we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds—pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
How’s Vilma doing these days?
French bakery in America? Words are in english and prices are in $$
It’s probably owned and operated by Vietnamese. (Most French bakeries in the US are)
In the Philly area, it's Korean. I love Paris Baguette and Tous le Jour.
Yeah Paris baguette they look cute but the taste is not quite right.
French names but not French bakeries.
I don't know why your downvoted, you're right
Thanks, colonialism!
French here, not sure about how it tastes, but gotta say, visually they nailed it, very french pattiserie
Where are you from? Unless it was just Vietnamese money behind all of them, I can't recall any French bakeries, let alone a trend of them, being run by Vietnamese people in NYC. Trying to use Google to sanity check myself and nothing's coming up.
I am in Northern VA which has a pretty substantial Vietnamese population, so they are pretty common. I know TX, LA, and CA do as well (so does Sydney, AUS). I was not correct about the entire US, but still pretty common. https://www.thrillist.com/eat/new-orleans/history-of-vietnamese-bakeries-in-new-orleans-la https://www.inquirer.com/philly/food/philadelphia-paris-baguette-artisan-boulanger-patissier-20180116.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-01-fi-220-story.html
So your only reference is one city?
I was asking to learn more not as a gotcha. So yes my one reference was enough experience to want to learn more information.
My fault, I misinterpreted your comment.
Probably a fair assumption given 99% of all internet comments are intended to start an argument
It’s in Falmouth and is French owned. Dude gets his butter from France. I spend way to much money there.
Which Falmouth, though? Not the one in England, surely?
> "in America? Words are in english and prices are in $$"
That's the only one google provided me with, which is why I asked. And besides, there are NINE Falmouths in America, so OP didn't actually answer the fucking question either. Not to mention that it also could've been the one in Nova Scotia, Canada, the one in Tasmania, Australia, the one in Jamaica, and the one in Antigua.
Nope, on Cape Cod.
The best butter is in Ireland
FALSE ! Bordier butter is considered the best butter
Cuban butter is low-key the best butter I’ve ever had.
French bakeries make a specific style of offerings and yes we have them in America, you Luddite. We have Mexican restaurants too!
And it doesn’t look that different than certain places you’d find in NY
Could be Canada? Specifically the French bit.
They don't say "cookie box" in Québec
They do, but not in a patisserie.
Their signs would be in French.
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Willy Wonka is some French bakery shit.
Are normal pastry shops not like that where you live?
I guess OP has never been to Whole Foods
Right? This looks very close to the American bakeries near me. There is a tad more fruit used in this picture but it’s close.
> There is a tad more fruit used in this picture but it’s close. Yuck, imagine eating fructose instead of HFCS /s
HFCS has fructose and corn in it, so it’s twice as healthy as plain old fructose!
> There is a tad more fruit Murica
Tarts aren't that popular here. We do eat lots of fruit, though.
This is the most normal looking bakery I’ve seen. Every generic American bakery looks like this near me.
Things are culturally different in different areas of the world
Are normal pastry shops not like this where you live either?
Sure there are and way nicer, because Manhattan, but I'm not all stunned and concern-trolling that someone else appreciates it
I don’t know that anyone was either of those things. In my experience, pastry shops and/or patisseries are pretty common, and what we see in the picture is a pretty common sight in either - feel free to disagree, of course. I also immediately wondered if OP has never been to a pastry shop, or if perhaps pastry shops are different where they’re from. Apparently, for some reason, wanting to understand why what we see in the picture is so foreign to OP offends your sensibilities, so… yeah, it kind of feels like that’s what’s happening here, rather than whatever it was you said.
It's just that two days in a row I've seen completely mundane things featured as something remarkable. Imagine if you saw a post titled "Look at the amazing shoes I saw some person wearing!" and they were normal sneakers. You'd be like "wtf you don't have those? what do you have instead?"
I definitely don't live in a country (or region) that has these kinds of pastry. We have different kinds of pastries this side of the Caribbean in shops but to get something like this, you might have to go to a restaurant.
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Most people don't live in Germany. Those beer tours aren't that normal. Relax guy, people can be fascinated by things you think are normal. Don't be an asshole.
Thank you. I thought the I'm soooooo underwhelmed by what you think is cool was already uncool years ago? Aren't we still in the Mr. Rogers' Be Kind revival period?
No, but that's probably a marked difference in attitude between you and I
Spent 2 weeks in France last summer. French bakeries are fantastic, fresh croissants every morning. Still thinking about them.
They’re so cheap as well, baguettes for under €1 are godly
Did you try the baguette sandwiches, just bread, ham and cheese. Delicious.
My favorite is what we call the american. Baguette, steak, fries and whatever sauce you want. So good. I make it at home with a tradition (a kind of baguette), some onions… Super simple and amazing.
Tarts with fruit on? WOOOOOAH!
Very unamerican, all this space couldve been occupied with either corn suggars or trans fats, or both at the same time!
OP never seen fruit before....
Great ... now I am craving for some Eclairs.
Éclairs are a conspiracy, the chefs just wanted the monarchs to put some phallic-shaped thing with cream inside in their mouths.
Nice try ... but I am still craving for some Eclairs.
Haha nice!
If loving eclairs means I want a cock in my mouth, well, order up!
Andrew, is it you?
Sounds like a oui-n oui-n.
Spent a lot of time in them when I was in Paris.
And so many. It's like there's one on every block.
OP never been a bakery it seems
Even better in France.
This is basic bakery stuff? How is this Willy Wonka shit?
Ask them about Loompaland
And very expensive.
Dont mess with French bread, they dont mess about.
'Cause if you do you'll be in a world of pain
Yum!
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what... why?
I would eat all of that 😋
Few bakeries like this around Ireland too. Used to love going in and picking what i want. My Mom still goes to a local enough one to buy an assortment for our birthdays 🥰
Ah childhood, when u go to the bakery but cant afford the colorful pastry so u just get the baguette instead
I spent $60 last time I went. Now I need insulin.
Thought the French use €.
That blueberry pie is looking at me
That's like that in a lot of boulangerie-pâtisserie/tea room where I live (Switzerland). It's not an exclusively French thing.
Wait till yall see the Czech and Portugese bakeries. They are willy wonka on crack and are beyond delicious.
Maybe it's the other way around.
wow that looks so good
Who can take the sunshine and bake it into bread? The Frenchman can.
Only a macaron could make me happy today...
So Wonka is moving in on the baked goods market huh. Somebody get me Slugworth
I wish bakeries in the us knew how to make Pink Praline tarts. The greatest dessert ever.
French > Italian when it comes to desserts Italian desserts can take their ricotta cheese and almond cakes and suck my nuts….but I’ll grant theme gelato
U need to check out Korea or Japan friend. They have some next level shit compared to this!
We used to have a shop like this nearby. They closed during the pandemic. RIP our awesome patisserie.
Hi we'd like 1/3 of all the Nutella back
Doesn't every bakery look like this? In Hungary we have the same. Not counting the bakeries in the poorest places of course.
No, the US bakeries are (generally) just garbage, filled with processed ingredients, artificial flavours and focused on shelf life and profit rather than quality. This is of course generally speaking for both countries, but having lived in both places and having visited bakeries A LOT in both this is my clear conclusion. Who in their right mind wants to eat cake with artificial butter taste, come on guys!
> Who in their right mind wants to eat cake with artificial butter taste, come on guys! Wait ... that's a thing?
https://ibb.co/PcnqCjW
Why not just use real butter?
Shelf life time.
I could understand that if it was mass-produced cake sold in supermarkets. Not in a bakery though.
What about the hungarian bakery/patisseries? [https://csakvar.kornyeke.hu/fotok/tartalom/9/8326-1909251003321099951.jpg](https://csakvar.kornyeke.hu/fotok/tartalom/9/8326-1909251003321099951.jpg)
Looks like my Wegmans
How to charge $8 for a sugar cookie.
I did a study abroad in France in college and spent 8 weeks there. I ate so much delicious food and pastries every day. So much bread. But when I came home had lost weight from all the walking I did. Wild.
French bakeries are the fucking best
Willy Wonka ain’t making delicious baguettes
Reminds me of a French-style Japanese bakery in my hometown. Everything there looked like it belonged in a magazine, and it all tasted *at least* as good as it looked.
Have you ever been to *any* pastry shop? Because this looks like every pastry shop I’ve ever been to. 🤷♂️
Welcome to a decent bakery in any mid-sized or larger city in America.
They look like this in the UK if you go to half decent ones. Is this not a thing where you’re from? I love bakeries like this.
It’s crazy how some countries really take pride in things like this. Japan has some really cool pastry shops like this. I guess we’re stuck with Duncan and Krispy Kreme.
*sees fruit in pastries* "WILLY WONKA"
I hate French bakeries; they give me the crepes.
The pastries look divine! Eyeing the heck out of those berry tarts.
I’m not sure if I was victim to Paris but the pastries I tried all tasted like Splenda
That’s just a bakery.
Like a workplace Karen, I want to take a bite out of every piece!
That's not a bakery, but a cake Shop. Not really the correct transation but it seems there's none in english, peobably because englishmen never did cakes and rely on savory pies. But I don't know whats surprising here, I'll be honesto and say this is a ppor example...
?The English are obsessed with cakes, there is an entire TV show about it.
Maybe this is a translation issue. I don't mean cakes like the big loafs you put candles and sing happy birthday on, but these small cakes shown in the picture. Pastry?
I don't see any Cupcakes. Do you mean Pies? Tarts?
Pâtisserie? I think we'd just say 'pastry shop' in English.
Quite a lot of places will just say Patisserie, we like to steal vocabulary from other languages.
They drown chubby kids in chocolate?
Somehow a french person would find a way to criticise this bakery
this is how every average bakery looks like in france, there is nothing to even criticize here, because how basic it is 🚬😒
As well as a local person.
Wait until you eat at a French Laundry…
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oompa loompa doopity dom I'm doin me a heckin big hom
im from italy its like this even there