Posted on 10/28/2021 1:34:05 AM PDT by blueplum
PARIS (AP) — A hike in the cost of wheat is alarming French households who fear a possible rise in the price of the prized baguette, seen by many as a barometer of the country’s economic health.
Many boulangeries around France are putting up signs, warning customers that the long, crunchy staple could be going up in price by 3 to 5 centimes (4 to 6 cents), from its average of about 89 centimes (just over $1).
“Although that might not seem like a lot, it’s a huge increase. The baguette is precious. It has only gone up 23 centimes in the last 20 years,” said Dominique Anract, president of the French Confederation of Bakeries and Pastry Shops....
...“Even three centimes higher is dire when played out nationwide,” Anract said. “The baguette is our emblem, our symbol, the thermometer of our economy. It’s perhaps like Britain’s pint of milk. It can never go beyond one euro.”...
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Frenchie is wailing about a 4-6 cents increase! All I can say is “Welcome to the party pal.”
Maybe if they gave up a holiday or two or one of those 5 WEEKS VACATION mandated by French law.
Cry me a river froggies.
Sorry to hear about the baguette problem. Have they considered eating cake?
LOL. Good one. Maybe cheese cake, so they can keep that stereo type, of being cheese eating. 😀
Don’t they say that when everyone is complaining about the price of bread it’s time to open a bakery?
“Frais… pas trop”
If I go to France, ever, it will be for their baguettes...nothing else worth going for.
Ah, the centuries old currency of France intertwined with their very existance. The old traditions abound around it.
Check our the causes of the French Revolution in 1789 and the horrors that followed.
I can live without charcoal baguettes. I can use real firewood for my grill.
I was last in France some 40 years ago and remember my first baguette.
So yeah, you are right.
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