NEW! Mutating bread!

[Shironu-Akaineko]

First you guys heard about the Hairy cakes.

Then, the Greater Canadian moldking.

Now, I present to you the story of the mutating bread!

Got this couple this morning that wanted... well... I still don't know.

CM: Confusing man
CW: Confusing woman
Me: pull your own conclusions

CM: Excuse me, I was looking for galettes. You know, they're shaped like hotdog buns but smaller (air-measuring: 3 inches).

Me: (Wtf?) Well we have these that are shaped like smaller hotdog buns...

CM: No, those aren't the buns. They're rounder. (Excuse me?)

CW: They're about this long (Air-measuring: 8 inches. whaaaaat?)

Me: *suggests sub buns)

CM: No, I saw them in between Xmas and New Year's, they're sweet, long galettes about this size (air measuring: 10 inches. Now come on!)

Me: Well, as for galettes, we have...

CW: It's a bread, about this big (air measuring, back to 3 inches) not a galette.

CM: It's a bun, about this long (Air measuring, back to 10 inches).

Me: I'm sorry, but if it we had "it" during the holidays (And I know my stock by heart) it's gone now.

CM and CW: oh, okay, see you next christmas then.

Okay, you've described my entire stock as one bun/bread/galette. Buy everything and leave now.

First they bring me horribly mangled abominations, now they make them on the spot.

Gawd-dayum.

[marty]

Hahaha, I love generic answers to "What are you talking about?" They always describe something that's nothing like what they really want..

"Do you guys have that one game where you shoot all those people?"
"Uhh..you're going to have to be a little more specific."
"(To the background) Honey, what's the name of that game? (back to me) Oh, she said it's called, 'Ratatouille.'"



You know, they probably wanted hamburger buns.

[tollbaby]

Well, Acadians call pancakes "galettes"... but that doesn't sound like anything those people were describing. It almost sounds like they were talking about mini-baguettes (like a baguette, but 5 inches or so long... sort of like a hot-dog bun, but really good crusty bread). Although as you knew your stock, you'd have known if you baked those or not and likely suggested them if you did (very few places do.... actually, I've only seen them at the bakery I used to work at.... maybe they're sort of an "us" thing LOL)

Either way, those two were nuts

[Shironu-Akaineko]

You know, they probably wanted hamburger buns.

I tried that.
Wasn't that either.

Don't get me started on customers who want bread but refuse to tell me what kind, or worse: Old ladies looking for their husbands.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ah yes.

The patented "Do you have this....thing? I forget what it's called, but it's yay big, and it attaches to this other thing and.....well I bought it here before so you must have it"

Me:

[marty]

Ah yes.

The patented "Do you have this....thing? I forget what it's called, but it's yay big, and it attaches to this other thing and.....well I bought it here before so you must have it"

Or the, "Well I think I bought it here before, so you must have it! even though it was probably <other store> that I really bought it from!"

[Shironu-Akaineko]

SC: Excuse me, I would like some bread.

Me: What kind?

SC: Bread to make sandwiches with.

Me: okay, but what kind?

SC: *tut* Bread to make toasts with!

Me: okay, but what kind? White, brown, 7 grain, the commercial bread, the one we bake here...?

SC: *Exasperated* THE BREAD I BUY ALL THE TIME!!!!

ME: *snap* Ma'am, we got 75 types, make and brands of breads here!!! You're gonna have to be a LIL BIT MORE FPEFIFIC! (Yes, Fpefific--specific--. By then I was talking through clenched teeth.)

SC: *suddenly all calmed down* Oh! Pom! (She saw the light! )

Me: right behind that display, can't miss it.

[flyinghi]

Well, Acadians call pancakes "galettes"... but that doesn't sound like anything those people were describing. It almost sounds like they were talking about mini-baguettes (like a baguette, but 5 inches or so long... sort of like a hot-dog bun, but really good crusty bread). Although as you knew your stock, you'd have known if you baked those or not and likely suggested them if you did (very few places do.... actually, I've only seen them at the bakery I used to work at.... maybe they're sort of an "us" thing LOL)

Either way, those two were nuts

Being a proud Acadien I can confirm that and in some places in northern NB cookies are also called galettes In the south Eastern part of the province a galette usually refers to what most people would call a round sourdough bread

I will never forget the look on English speaking tourists when I told them what the name Petes de Soeurs ( our name for cinnamon buns) translates too

[Sliceanddice]

i can think of something i ate once (pretty sur eit was a mexican pastry, one of the two i actually like) kind about 6 inches long maybe 8 maybe 2 and half inces wide sweet and soft on the inside crusty and covered with crystalized sugar on the outside.... i think thats what they were talking about.

[Happy Otter Lover]

I will never forget the look on English speaking tourists when I told them what the name Petes de Soeurs ( our name for cinnamon buns) translates too

That's so funny!

[tollbaby]

I will never forget the look on English speaking tourists when I told them what the name Petes de Soeurs ( our name for cinnamon buns) translates too

Pêtes de soeurs are fantastic, although we don't make them quite the way you do... for us, they're more like cookies, made with leftover pie dough, butter and brown sugar

[tollbaby]

i can think of something i ate once (pretty sur eit was a mexican pastry, one of the two i actually like) kind about 6 inches long maybe 8 maybe 2 and half inces wide sweet and soft on the inside crusty and covered with crystalized sugar on the outside.... i think thats what they were talking about.

Doubtful, since that's not something you'd ever find in a Quebec grocery store's bakery... and they're definitely not called "galettes"... I can't put my finger on the word right now, but I do know that's not it.

[flyinghi]

i can think of something i ate once (pretty sur eit was a mexican pastry, one of the two i actually like) kind about 6 inches long maybe 8 maybe 2 and half inces wide sweet and soft on the inside crusty and covered with crystalized sugar on the outside.... i think thats what they were talking about.

Almost sounds like a Churro (sp?)

[tollbaby]

YES!!!! Churros!!!! I knew I knew that word, I just couldn't remember it. NOthing like anything I've ever seen called "galettes" though, and churros don't really keep, so they wouldn't really sell them at a grocery store, from what I can tell (certainly not in Quebec)

[Becks]

I will never forget the look on English speaking tourists when I told them what the name Petes de Soeurs ( our name for cinnamon buns) translates too

Well, my language skills are sleeping right now, so I'm very interested in hearing the translation, if someone would oblige me.