This is probably a ridiculous question, but it was a fun debate I had with my wife. She says they also say "baguette"like the French. I’m rooting for "French Bread"! 😬 Also, is this generally used everywhere in Flanders? Or do most places just go for "baguette"?
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My french speaking grandmother from Liège said Pain Français. Never heard anyone else say that tho
It use to be more common to say pain francais but nowadays baguette is the norm.
My grandpa (in his 90s) likes to tell the story of how he once asked for “pain francais” while on vacation in France not thinking twice about it and the boulanger looked at him funny ‘they are all french sir’ he replied.
“Pain de erection” is what i would say if i was a French speaker.
My parents say “pain français” but I guess that’s a bit old-fashioned
Either baguette/stokbrood (depending on far from Brussels I am) , never said Pain Francais in my 25 years here.
No : Baguette.
My niece actually made it into a local French newspaper by ordering a “pain Français” in France. This was more than 30y ago though.
Baguette, although a French colleague of mine said he used to call our bread “pain belge”.
Im pretty sure I heard some Italians call it that. Pane Francese
I say both. But probably more baguette.
Baguette / stokbrood
I use it still
Only Franch can make good bread
Older generations used generally pain français in Wallonia and in Brussels by Belgian French speakers.
Nowadays younger generations tend to use baguette and not specified pain français by French influence from France (via French TV channels and francophone internet).
My parents and grandparents say “Frans brood”. I (and my brother, sister, friends,..) say “stokbrood”
Baguette ofc 😅
I (now 36yo) said pain français in the nineties, but it disappeared from general use throughout the years and it isn’t used anymore nowadays
(Of course speaking from my pov)
EDIT: grew up in Bxl
Baguette is much more used. Pain français is more old style.
We recognise the Luxembourgeois by the words pain français
I remember when I was a kid the bakers in Brussels (Ixelles and Koekelberg so I’m guessing this was kind of common?) used baguette for the thinner baguette, and pain français for the larger one’s.
No way, baguette 100 %. I would be soooooo shocked if one of my mates would use pain francais. (I am French speaking Belgian, lived most of my life in Louvain La Neuve Region and Chimay region)
We used to. Remember doing it in Brussels 35 years ago. Nowadays people don’t say that anymore.
“Use” as in … ?