That's a real pain

So the four of us are sitting and having a very nice lunch in Hiely-Lucullus, 5 rue de la Republique, Avignon, 0490 86 17 07, when the conversation got around to bread. Is the dough made on site or is the bread bought in frozen? Chris W, who knows about these things, admitted that at one of the restaurants he worked in they bought frozen bread. This obviously happens all the time but the question for me is, does your local boulangerie do this as well? Anyway, we laughed about our local bread shop in Quissac and the formidable lady that runs it. Jan's story is that, in the early days, she would wander into the shop and ask for un baguette. Madame, never one to mince her words, replied frostily that it was une baguette. Chris W mentioned that he had had much the same problem when he first arrived and, after receiving similar treatment, he got a bit of a mental block about the gender. But Chris, as inventive as ever, found a solution. From then on he always asked for deux baguettes because the male/female issue went away. Clever, but it meant that he had to eat a shed load of bread! Mnnnnnn.