5 Mistakes to Avoid with French Bread | French Food Culture

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[@ActionCat2000]

"Embarrassing Mistakes with Bread" has got to be THE most French thing ever!! :^D

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[@brotherutoy2225]

You're from Grenoble! I used to visit that city at least once a week when I lived in a small rural town between Grenoble and La Salette called La Mure d'Isère for five years. This place has no less than eight boulangeries and three pâtisseries! I learned that the bagette has a smaller version, la flûte and and an even smaller version, la ficelle!

[@bcschmidt208]

My French mom never let our bread sit upside down. She would say, "Ca fait pleurer la Sainte Vierge!)

[@Commeunefrancaise]

J'adore ! Chacun a des anecdotes familiales autour du pain.

[@souhridyobose4362]

Pour moi, c'etait ma grande-mere

[@benli8702]

I really love your program and listen it daily on my way to work most of time. Cuz I have a few colleagues from France working tgt and sometimes their straight faces make me awkward. But your explanation in culture helps me a lot. Love channel amazing ~~~ Merci beaucoup.

[@janedmunds4218]

So much more to learn than just words! Merci beaucoup Geraldine!

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Just one minor correction if I may. We would say 'Turn it over' rather than 'Put it up'. Love you channel! I learn a lot from your posts. Keep them coming!!

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Thank you for all your videos - I am learning all the very IMPORTANT practical points about French life and culture that l’Institut français does not teach me about !!

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Happy to know I’m considered advanced that I noticed the liaison the first time in the pronunciation and not the second, thanks for the motivation to keep on learning!

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Merci Geraldine pour cette lecons. Je suis intermediare et je besoin des phrases et les mot qui son plus avance...Vous avez les detailes qui reconnaitre depuis les jours d’ecole...Je voudriez Visiter la France un jour et son videos donner moi l’espere du fait ca 😃😃😃😃Merci Geraldine😃😃😃😃

[@evimorrison855]

Geraldine, a bread knife has a serrated blade, also called a dentated, sawtooth or toothed blade (like you said it it has teeth!)

[@huberfloover]

I used to have a German teacher who would throw dinner parties. It would be a combination of language learning, mealtime, and games. So much fun...I would be in heaven at one of Geraldine's parties. It astounds me how France and Germany used to be one country, yet some things (like the passion for good bread) remained.

[@yongleong9596]

Pourquoi tu parles anglais avec la forte accent francais?

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 love the video!!! Merci, merci!

[@hilarymccarthy1011]

This is so interesting, Géraldine. These are all new phrases to me. Thank you. 🌺

[@mitch1833]

Géraldine! Tu as besoin de "smell-a-vision" pour cette video!

[@Tamara-eh6je]

C'est intéressante Nous faisons le même dans l'Espagne :)

[@geraldinekavanagh3639]

I am new to you and love it ! I am also Geraldine without the acute and love everthing French .I go to France every year with my daughter and grandchildren and am trying to brush up my long forgotten school French. Will keep watching Thank you.

[@nigelrider3169]

A bread knife doesn't have teeth, it has serrations...it is serrated. Love your videos!

[@nigelrider3169]

Next time I'll look at the comments before commenting.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Same thing!

[@wudgee]

I'd never put my bread on the table or tablecloth (English) I'd wonder if the table (or cloth) was clean, and I know I'd leave a ton of crumbs on the cloth or table which I'd consider bad manners. As you said you could, I'd put it on the plate if there was no assiette. Interesting, I will be watching the French now to see what they do. I love your videos.

[@pensatoreseneca]

It’s not any table cloth, it’s a cloth made / used specifically for and only for the bread .. the crumbs are then shaken off

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Assiette is plate. Napkin is la serviette. They sound similar.. A lot of people put the bread on the table cloth. It's okay. In France, anyhow - and among Francophiles..

[@jspud10]

Serrated knife. Thank you for this channel. I’m learning so much.

[@fleuramora4764]

Bonjour! Trempe also is very common in Philppines❣️ Loving your videos. It helps a lot☺️ Im a new follower😊 Merci🙏🏼

[@duanefitzhugh4093]

I would say a better translation for saucer is “sop.” You could use mop, but that is usually reserved for “mopping the floor.” You can also “mop” or “clean up” a mess (figuratively, as in “try to mitigate someone’s mistake, or fix it if possible.

[@christineingebrigtsen7130]

Having lived for 20 years in the UK, I have never heard anyone use the word sop the way you suggest. Geraldine uses "mop" correctly here. You can indeed use bread to mop up the gravy:)

[@duanefitzhugh4093]

@@christineingebrigtsen7130 We don't use it that way in NAE. I've lived here all my life, and am a native English speaker, and never heard anyone "mop" up gravy. We "sop" it up here. (And I never said she was "wrong." I said a "better translation." I'm also a linguist, so I have experience in this field.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

@@duanefitzhugh4093 They're both good: sop or mop. Sop is fancier and less often used. What about soak?

[@duanefitzhugh4093]

@@cockeyedoptimista Not in this context.

[@johnvanek1]

Merci, Geraldine! I crave a croissant au chocolate from my favorite cafe in Chamonix! Maybe next year.

[@noaccount9985]

Actually '' 🥐 au chocolat '' does not really exist .. WE rather find out '' pains au chocolat '' OR '' croissants '' [ croah ssan ] b/c the latter has nothing inside.

[@johnvanek1]

@@noaccount9985 Thanks! I learned something today!

[@cyruschang1904]

7:32 I put it upside down and waited for people to flip it over. 12:15 do not do it! mdr 😂

[@james-p]

Alas, I am sitting here in the US, my next trip to France isn't until Feb 2021, and I see that delicious baguette and croissant... J'ai besoin d'une baguette et d'un croissant immédiatement!

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How was France?

[@james-p]

@@ryandirajlal2855 Alas, my trip got postponed - France wasn't letting any of Yanks in à cause de la pandémie - so I had to change it to this September. I am really looking forward to it!

[@elianemelodeavendano5629]

I live in Brazil and I do it...bread is my favorite food for sure ..(avec fromage,any type + diet coke)...

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Mme Lapere, vous pouvez nous faire un video sur le "vire-langues" français ? Merci beaucoup 💗

[@aprendeespanol2020]

I am surprised to know that "tremper" is very French. We do it in Ecuador as well (although a few hate it as well). I love it, and I love to know we have that in common.

[@liternunez816]

J'aime bien ta chaîne! Je la regards depuis longtemps pour mantenir mon français pas si rouillé hahaha Maintenant j'apprends l'allemand; connaîs-tu des chaînes qui soient comme la tienne, mais au allemand? Merci!

[@nancylindsay4255]

J'aime la chaîne Karambolage -- et c'est en réalité deux chaînes: en français UND AUF DEUTSCH!

[@keouine]

Not a plate exactly but I have seen a bread board at an older lady’s home. After all a tartine requires cutting. For me a croissant is not suited for dunking. One needs something with firmer, stronger structure like bread.

[@pifdemestre7066]

About "tremper" and "biscuit", you should be careful, "tremper son biscuit" is a metaphor for a male having sex... if you precise "dans son café" or whatever it remove ambiguity.

[@Commeunefrancaise]

tout à fait.

[@thierryf67]

@H. Teunissen it depend on the context.... here it's on purpose.

[@octavedefinale5700]

En général, saucer veut dire rajouter de la sauce. C'est récent ce truc de dire saucer pour essuyer son assiette. Bonne journée

[@audreyoreilly4055]

Oh my gosh. I was horrified at the idea of taking a bite of the baguette....France is getting in on me! These videos are great!!

[@nancylindsay4255]

She does mean not to use your teeth to take a bite of it on the way home, right? If you're lucky enough to get a piece at the table that includes an end you can go ahead and bite it?

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You're wonderful. I love your accent

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If I subscribe, what does it mean? Is there a cost? Do I get access to older episodes?

[@bonnesondes465]

En France, lorsque le pain est mis à l’envers cela peut signifier aussi : « que tu as mal gagner ton pain ! ». Puisque la baguette est une référence au coût de la vie. Je suis française dans l’Est de la France.

[@sledgehammer-productions]

How about eating first both ends of the baguette? Feels a bit like 'burning a candle at both sides' which isn't really good either.

[@alvinscott1331]

Bonjour Géraldine. J'ai une question. Chocolat chaud est typiquement bu d'un bol ou est "un bol de chocolat" juste une expression?

[@cockeyedoptimista]

I lived with a French family one summer in southern France, and they served hot chocolate for breakfast in a bowl. With a croissant. But I never dunked it. You would pick up the bowl and drink out of it, like a soup bowl if you want the last drop or if the soup is just broth.

[@lindabakker3743]

Serated edge on a bread knife. And do not bite the baguette. 😋 And I agree that upside down bread is wrong!

[@piros100]

I'm Hungarian and we were tought table manners in kindergarden the teacher told us you have always break a bite size chunk from plain bread at a time and eat it like that. You can only bite the bread if there is something spread on it, like butter or marmelade or honey, etc. it's so weird, like who comes up with these rules? :D

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Because, why would you bite into a giant hunk of bread? What if someone else wants some? But it something is spread on it, then it's probably all yours.

[@philright8197]

Can you spread butter on the bread?

[@ismartforlife]

Bonjour 👋 In the south here in USA North Carolina Black people do wipe the sauce up ....... we call that to “sop” up the gravy or whatever you are eating. Ex. I like to sop up molasses when I have it. 😊

[@marvinraphaelmonfort8289]

Merci! J'espere que je peut trouve et achet un croissant en aprem =] on sauce et trempe aussi (au philippine, avec influence espagnol et mon ami dit que les italiens saucer aussi)

[@JuJu-zh2vk]

i like to eat baguette with some soup. C'est trop bon!

[@johngorentz6409]

The crust ends of fresh baked bread are the best, even in the U.S. I take advantage of the fact that most people don't know it.

[@KevinBrown-bn3nz]

11:32, serrations. or a serrated knife. (serratus, latin, notched like a saw) :-)

[@flouw8733]

Merci beaucoup!!👏👏

[@nathanthompson9254]

Merci pour la lecon.

[@madhurag1922]

C'est trop bon!

[@obkb1]

There is now a puddle of drool in my lap. Most of it seemed to come when the topic of mopping up the sauce with the bread was being presented.

[@deadtonk5527]

Sorry but if I ever get invited to the president table I WILL mop my plate with bread. I know it would be questionable at first, even with the fork but ultimately it means that the plate was so good I couldn't leave a drop of sauce ! A compliment to the chef and staff who also are some of the best in France.

[@charityshopguitar8790]

That bread sounds so crispy when you break it.

[@danieldumas7361]

At L'Elysee, I would APSOLUMENT " Saucer mom pain" to show my appreciation for his Craft. Four l'Ministre.

[@prairiemooncat]

I'm curious why at 1:45 she mentions "mon assiette" which is masculine but at 8:02 it becomes "une assiette" which is feminine. So assiette can be masculine and feminine?

[@annewhykes6442]

It's because you have 2 vowels together: ma assiette. To make a better liaison between the words use mon assiette

[@fbrosseau]

The difference is because mon assiette can be translated by "my plate" and une assiette by "a plate" like any plate you choose. And no assiette is always féminine. The reason why we say "mon assiette" is an exception.

[@mackjay2]

Ce pain a l'air délicieux! :)

[@Karpe_Deem]

It's as if I had a filter when I read French 😂😂 my eyes read : quand j'vois l'pain (skip) à l'envers s'a (sur la) tab, j'peux po m'empêcher de'l flipper. I love how French are by the book and not like a barbarian like me 😂😂😂

[@ivanstarkov4053]

Is baguette descent reason for learning French?))

[@kateoc8]

Decent

[@muriellecozic6807]

Il y a encore 70, 80 ans, à la A campagne, on signait (faire le signe de croix) le pain avec le couteau sur le dessous avant de l'entamer (c'était des gros pains). Cest pour ça qu'il ne faut pas le retourner.

[@efkay93]

If you bought a baquette sandwich from the Boulangerie, would it be acceptable to eat it in the street as you walked back to the office, or would it still be seen as the unacceptable, 'croquer le bout de la baguette'?

[@littleshubunkin7926]

Learning about French bread is a real pain. 😛

[@carlosgarcia33333]

just looking at that bread made me crave for a baguette

[@kathrynhoke4830]

If you buy a croissant by itself, is it acceptable to bite straight into it or do you have to pull it apart too?

[@thierryf67]

a croissant is not a bread, you are not supposed to share it, so if you eat it all, you can bite. If you have to share it, don't bite, tear it.

[@josephciolino2865]

Vous-etes tres adorable!

[@marwamarwa7903]

merci beaucoup pour toutes ces informations mais j'ai une question qu'est ce que ça veut dire cette expression "mon péché mignon"

[@kluh1239]

fes fes Has a French native, I translate it like: Little weakness. « Mon péché mignon est la tarte aux pommes !» = « My little weakness is apple pie! » Cheers.

[@marcmarc8524]

fes fes. Directly translated, mon péché mignon means my cute sin

[@roxaneutena5541]

In the old times, the reversed bread was reserved to the executioner. So, it's linked with death or the risk of offending a legally killing man.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

Ooh la la!

[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

About the bread à l’envers, that’s upside-down in English. The opposite is right-side-up. I can almost smell that bread, especially le croissant. Yiam-yam !

[@okenshur]

One reason there's no assiette a pain at dinner is that butter is never served with bread at dinner. If the bread were buttered, there would be a reason to have a plate to put it on,

[@scottkay6495]

I'm thinking that " French Canadian French " doesn't work! Also, I'm starving for great bread 🍞😋

[@clotildebayle3091]

As a french, i have to precise that if you want to "sauce" your plate, you have to use a fork...

[@alexysq2660]

En fait moi, je voulais toujours coller à la table du pain mis à l'envers - et, attendre alors l'arrivée de quiconque ayant peut-être envie d'essayer le retourner. Mais j'n'suis jamais même pas foutue d'en ficher, moi. Ni l'attendre non plus. Ce porte malheur, ça? T'es toute ravissante, toi, chère **Géraldine*;* en vrai je t'adore trop...!

[@nc3500]

Baguette is my most favorite bread ever.

[@ylee247]

vous parlez bien anglaise!

[@chriswest7639]

Interesting

[@MorliHolect]

It sounds funnier like this: "Donald trempe toujours ses tartines de confiture dans son bol de chocolat"

[@alexysq2660]

*@MorliHolect* ... ({; D ...!

[@Sunlives]

La corbeille à pain is your bread basket in English, rather than your bowl :)

[@juliaward1127]

But does she ever read these corrections?

[@Sunlives]

​@@juliaward1127 She might read them, but she never replies to them. Check out the last 5 or so videos she put out this month: Zero response from her.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

@@juliaward1127 I noticed that one too. It's good to know what corbeille means for sure anyhow.

[@cockeyedoptimista]

@@Sunlives She's teaching French, not English, and her manner of speaking is adorable. Some of the corrections are silly, tho I guess people are trying to help, like when she's searching for a word. In this case, it's very useful (corbeille = basket).

[@dreamervanroom]

There's so much English I'd rather have more in French.

[@marlinpals4233]

I interrupt to mention that a large "underground" structure is called a basement and can be used for many purposes.

[@dhruveshpatel1109]

I am not French and even I can't resist placing the bread the right way up because of my OCD.

[@n2frot123]

"Saucer la sauce"= to sop up the sauce.

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

" Un couteau à pain." - serrated edge, serrated knife.

[@marioboucei3352]

Yes, like an Italian.

[@fabmaxmm]

Salut, Little English suggestion, "wipe" up the sauce, not "mop" up as this is also a nown for the utensil used to clean up a wet or dirty floor. I might say "Go ahead, mop up the sauce with a piece of bread" it is understandable but in the context of food on a clean table and plate is something I would only say to very, very good friends in a casual setting. To wipe is the better verb to use, or perhaps again in a very casual context, "go ahead and clean up your plate with a piece of French baguette.

[@madhurag1922]

bread knife is the 'serrated' knife

[@williamreymond2669]

1:05]. "Essuyer la sauce..." 'Wipe up the sauce...'In good native English the word would be 'sop' not 'wipe.' It is one of those weird Old English words, it is *very* specific. Not many native English speakers use the word 'sop' outside this specific context *- for something you put in your own mouth.* Native English speakers 'wipe up' and 'soak up' lots of things, but we do not put those things in our mouths generally. Things we 'sop up' from our plate we put in our mouths as food. 'To sop,' it is one of those Old English words which has managed to cling on, despite the degeneracy of recent trends in English. People remain psychologically highly sensitive to the concept of contamination. Things that are 'wiped up,' and 'soaked up,' those are potentially contaminating - in English. People do not like to put potentially contaminating things in their own mouths. Thus native English speakers prefer to 'sop up' our sauce, even if we 'wipe up' everything else. Really. Eh, on second thought you can also use the word mop - notice the similarity to 'sop,. though modern philologists do not seem to be able to draw the connection. It is just another one of those weird English paradoxes, you can 'mop' the dirt from your floor, and you can 'mop up' the sauce from your plate - one goes down the drain, one goes in your mouth. The difference? Mop and sop are both old, old English words. 1:40 Geraldine] "'Sauce' that is to mop up the sauce from your plate.'" Magnifique! She knows the word 'sop!' But, maybe not its significance, for something you put in your own. mouth. Et, j'aime toujours ton vieux ordinateur qui dit "Comme une Française." C'est parfait.

[@ericjohnson288]

J'aime bien saucer mon assiette apres avoir mange de la cuisine indienne.

[@sandrasorianofernandez6859]

Vous devriez faire les vidéos complètement en français!

[@stevedowler2366]

Un couteau de pain = a bread knife - it has "serrations"!

[@daveayerstdavies]

I mix up tremper and se tromper all the time.

[@MartaM-666]

I'm so hungry now...

[@zodgzod]

J'avais peur que vous nous disiez de ne pas demander du beurre avec le pain.

[@gruweldaad]

"It didn't show something that French people were doing..." It didn't show something that sane people were doing. Nobody with half a mind eats a baguette without breaking off a piece first...

[@clemi2601]

Sadly enough I know people who does eat baguette just like that.

[@joseeallyn9950]

Perhaps it is better to be oneself, if it does not give offence. In the Depp South in America not only does one wait for the 'mother' to eat, but also it is customary to wait until the food is blessed. NEVER in England or America , use bread to wipe out the gravy in your plate ! Therefore just be yourself and no one will be offended, they will just think that you are a funny foreigner! They will be just as confused if they visit either America or Britain !

[@Damremont18]

Bread basket = corbeille à pain.

[@nicholasparker2086]

Il ne faut pas croquer le bout de la baguette dans la France, mais dans les États-Unis on la mange entière -_-

[@nancylindsay4255]

I feel myself declaring, " This is MY baguette!! CHOMP!" (Now I need to go to our store that has good baguettes . . . )

[@CaffeAddict]

If people love to eat the le bout de la baguette, boulangeries should make small loaves.

[@nancylindsay4255]

They do!

[@graceajama3695]

Tremper le pain dans le café, c'est dégoûtant !🤮

[@LanguagesWithAndrew]

The bread knife has what are called "serrations" (you said "teeth" - not bad ;) ).

[@annakozoriz]

I learned all new words…. In addition, In Ukraine we also clean the plate with peace of bread…. I am under strong impression it came from France.