No, France DOES still have the best bread.

I wish I knew how to make bread like they do in France.

French wheat flour, long proving times and proper bread ovens. That being said, there's not much that can be improved on a well made English sourdough cobb, fluffy interior and a crisp, chewy crust spread with salted Cornish butter and filled with free range, Gloucester Old Spot bacon.

Not as much as dropping the "h" from spaghetti, at least for Italians.

The baguette was introduced as a way of stopping rampant inflation litterally taking the bread from the mouths of the poor. The ovens are nothing special (originally steam ovens), the flour is ordinary and no added sugar and no preservatives. The taste is only special to you if you are used to having preservatives in it and sugar. Honestly French bread "is pants" but just so much better than most American and industrialised bread. Even "bread of the country" which is far better than the baguette is only up to proper Danish and German standards.

St C, we will have to agree to differ. :-)

How can you drop the "h" it would be "spa jetti" who says that?

Yes, bilbo, we will.

I will say if some Dane or German would come along and introduce the French to a real rye or pumpernickel, I would be eternally grateful.

You must have been sleeping through history class.

I thought you hated their current politics....? And now want to move there? As for the alcohol question, suggest you go look up the local laws yourself....

More topics for your IG followers, I suppose.

Anyways, Is hard liquor available for 18 y/o too in France and Germany?

18 in France. 16 in Germany for beer and wine, 18 for hard liquor.

In German, the "g" is always hard, as in Angela (pronounced Anghela) Merkel. Therefore, the "h" was deemed superfluous.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.csm...7s02-woeu.html

How do you pronounce "get", by the way?

That last sentence kind of invalidates your argument. When you ask about English, we are running under two sets of inherited rules concurrently. Consider us to be the plug-in hybrid.

Under the Anglo-Saxon rules, yes get would take a hard g .
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But we also follow the Romance language rules.
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Go, Ga, Gu= hard g
Ge, GI, Gy= soft g
So gender, gem, gin, gym

So in the word spaghetti, that h serves as a placeholder or a warning flag for Italians, telling the reader to use a hard g. As my Italian teacher said over and over, every letter in Italian has a job to do. (As someone from Italy, you know all this.... I'm just clarifying for others).
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​​​While English speakers may not consciously see the h in spaghetti as a flag, it works as such. Because we do have multiple ways to pronounce this letter. We take all the clues we can get. Therefore, keep the h.

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English pronunciation is a subject way above my pay grade. Mrs Bilbo knows it all after an excellent classical education, trouble is, the rules are hard and complicated and I get bored at the edge of complication.

I was just surprised, which country is dropping the "h" in spaghetti? I've not seen that in my little part of the UK, but who knows?
BTW way welcome to the land of the "panini's".