baguette

I'm Dutch, my French goes as far as "je m'appelle une baguette".

The only strict requirement is the baguette style bread.

But a baguette is just a signal to the viewer that the holder has been food shopping.

I prefer just briefly frying a steak, and using a nice fresh baguette for bread.. So much better!

The cooking shows on TV still mention cup sizes, pints etc. There's so many recipe books still in imperial and colloquially we never say a 30cm baguette or a 113g burger.

"One bread, please", and "help, please call an ambulance" are massively useful, even if you end up with a baguette instead of a whole wheat bread and ask people to shout at an ambulance instead of calling 911.

It's amazing that you can walk through Boston, pass dozens of cupcake and frozen yogurt businesses in high rent areas, but finding a baguette from a local merchant is near impossible.

But you could get a world-class baguette[1] in almost any part of town for about a Euro, same with croissants, and produce at the markets for... well, basically a negligible amount of money.

I always wind up starting to eat a few french fries, a piece of croissant in the morning, a bit of crusty baguette, a bit of cherry pie, a homemade chocolate-chip cookie, a buttered toasted English muffin, a waffle, kettle potato chips, a hamburger with bun, a slide of brick oven thin-crust pizza......and pretty soon you're back to where you were before.