Why is mopping up sauce with a French

[MattsWhiteSocks]

Baguette considered chic - but doing the same with a runny egg and a slice of Warburton’s white considered common?

What?
Gosh the strange posts are early today.

Because French people are the epitome of chic and their practises are to be admired and copied whereas we're a bit more basic and cavemanish and nobody should be doing what we do.

Who doesn't want to drink coffee in a Parisian café whilst discussing philosophy and then visiting the Louvre?

But if I eat moules mariniere at home and soak up the sauce with my baguette, that’s OK. But wiping the egg yolk off the plate with white bread isn’t. Why are social mores so complicated?

Will Warburton's sliced white hold together satisfactorily in the mopping up process?
If not it could be messy... egg yolk on clothing is never a good look.

Is it considered common? I think it's quite normal to pair egg and warburtons

French bread is just nicer bread, so more acceptable in a social setting/meal out

It really isn't. They are both just food.

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Who cares, if you're at home?

Just don't question it. It's not going to change. Virtually nothing we do in this country could be considered sophisticated. Milk bottle and sauce bottle on the kitchen table, pigeons in the yard, coal in the bath, baby sucking on a bottle of brown ale. Read The Road To Wigan Pier by Orwell. I'm a working class northerner, it's a hard life, the French have it easy with all that brie and nice wines. It shapes the population.

I guess I personally don't like white sliced bread. So any elevation in the bread front would be acceptable. I also don't like runny egg so wouldn't ever mop it up with anything.

Not very helpful I'm sure. But I don't really know who is saying mopping egg with Warburton's is common? Did someone tell you it was while you were doing it?

Etiquette differs across countries.

The French for example always keep their hands and elbows on the table during a meal, whereas in GB elbows on the table is a big faux pas (see wot I did there?). Apparently it's to re-assure fellow diners you are not about to use a weapon.

With regard mopping up egg yolk with a piece of bread - no judgement from me!

Do the French still drink chocolate milk from a bowl?
My mum would have been all "for pity's sake get a cup" 😂

Mopping up sauce with a French is unsatisfactory as they are generally unwashed and full of cheese.

Who sees you in your own home?

Do social rules apply when you're sat at your own table?

It’s just food snobbery. Like the people who sneer at people that have a red bull and a donut for their breakfast. While having an espresso and a muffin (in their gym kit). Same same

Howling with laughter at this description.

what in the everloving fuck are you on about?

I’m discussing the finer points of wiping a bit of baked wheat and water over a plate, china or otherwise.

The separation of your ‘french’ and ‘baguette’ is common, not chic.

Mumsnet made me do it.

... where the only person judging you is you?
😂

Why do you all think I live alone?

Hah!
My boss is French and a total food snob...not saying they're related though! and the fact that I ate a Waburtons style bread peanut butter sandwich for my lunch a few months ago was 2 DAYS of conversation. "but it must have no flavour"

He like a brie and chutney baguette EVERY DAY and does think he's superior because of it. "I brought this back from France, you will never taste brie like it, its incredible"

I ate a tuna jacket potato last week and that was mind blowing to him "you mix tuna and remeloude and put it on a potato" "Well its salad cream but sure" "What is salad cream? and with TUNA on a POTATO?! but that's a fish and with a whole potato, I cannot imagine"

I can't decide wether to eat a pot noodle or a rustlers burger infront of him this week...