At Large You Like that Big Baggette, Don’t You?
posted by on February 26 at 8:47 AM
We needed to grab some breakfast in Dublin, Ohio, this morning on our way to Ohio State University, where we plan to interview some college students about, well, you know. Anyway, we spot this French place in an older building in historic Dublin, and pulled over. When we walked in a latino cook greeted us with a “bonjour!” in perfectly accented Franish. We placed our orders, found a table, and proceeded to eat our eggs and thoroughly Americanized croissants. (In France, a croissant fits in the palm of your hand; in America, they’re bigger than your face—and, no, out-of-control portion sizes have nothing whatsoever to do with America’s obesity epidemic, and you’re an anti-fat bigot for even bringing it up.)
Anyway, looked up from my croissant and noticed a framed picture on the wall.
Is it just my filthy mind or is there something deeply fucked up about that painting?
That painting rocks! LMAO! In a deeply fucked up way of course...
sometimes a baguette is just a baguette.
at least you found a place to eat in ohio that wasn't fucking bob evans or the fucking cracker barrel. be grateful.
Dude, I'm a regular slog-reader and Ohio State student. How come I didn't know Dan Savage was coming to my school? Anybody know where I can find out where/what/when he's doing here?
Quelque fois, un baguette c'est seulemente un baguette.
It's just your filthy mind.
Normally, Dan, I would say it's just your filthy mind. Not in this case, though. Definitely not in this case.
Wow.
I think it's romantic.
No 3: I think he travels just to keep out of the house.
And as for the sexy baguette above, yah, I'm not sure there's anything else you could think of when looking at that.
BTW, I hate Dublin Ohio. There is a field of statues of corn there.
@ Mr. Poe: ROFLMAO!! Why, oh why, does this post have me in stitches this morning...
Could we get a 3-D version of this for the Olympic Sculpture Park?
LMAO MAX SOLOMON FILLS MY HEART WITH JOY!!!
I have family in Ohio and I was always blown away but the crazy amount of cracker barrels there. it was horrible especially considering the majority of their clientèle were crackers.
Dan,
yes on both counts.
@12 - I remember one particularly long road trip a few years ago, where we were in the middle of nowhere in southern Ohio. Dinner time after driving all day... small town... Cracker Barrel was the only option we could see. But it was Friday night and the wait was 60 minutes. The only fucking thing to do in this town on a Friday night was eat at the Cracker Barrel, apparently.
Knowing the cotext would help. Like the context of the photo of the kid with a wine bottle.
I'm afraid it is might just be your filthy mind.
There are PLENTY of good places to eat in Columbus, you just have to get out of the suburbs. But, while you're there, yes, go see the crazy field of corn:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/OHDUBcorn.html
I would kill for some Hound Dog pizza now.
Seattle pizza is teh sux.
And what about Bob Evans? Grease enough to lube your hummer. The painting looks like a "Says Anne" - sorta.
Lived in Geneva for a couple of years, and would drive to France for the worlds best croissants every other day. THE best in the world at a small bakery, a line sold out each batch thru the baking day.
AND, Dannie Boy, they were bigger and flakier and better than any American imitation.
Small croissants, are you kidding?
Of course, the French bakers in France could not be the experts on croissants, could they?
The painting is a good deal more refined than this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO117uFVo1I&feature=related
Well, @20, considering the French appropriated croissants from either the Austrians or the Hungarians (depending on which version of the story you believe), why should they know more about them than anyone else?
@20:
A line out the door every day? Selling out continuously? Sounds like a tourist place. I think Dan's talking about the average, corner-shop bakery in France--you know, the staple of the average French diet--where the croissants actually are much smaller than the croissants sold in America.
Of course, most American croissants are weird fluffy monstrosities, with a texture like a cross between bread and biscuits. French croissants are, by definition, half butter, and flake into a million paper-thin layers. So I'm not really sure which is healthier, just which is tastier.
"Tourist place". Please.
Some people are dumb.
He is simply flossing his teeth with that young boy's extra long penis.
#23
You are trapped in a small town somewhere I guess.
No, the bakery was in a French village 15 minutes from Geneva, family owned, where the locals lined up to buy out the product.
We lived in Geneva for almost 4 years. Hardly tourists. By the way, there are small bakeries in Seattle that sell all their product by the end of the day. Nothing amazing if you have the really good stuff and the word gets out.
By he way, the French food fetish is freshness. Any thing they eat is high quality and FRESH is valued above all else. They will buy bread, meats, produce every day because of this criteria for quality=fresh.
It is a very real and very universal cooking concept, among the French ...
that picture makes me feel funny down there...
I just recalled the great scene (or scenes?) in The Man on the Train that involves waiting in line for bread at an average, corner-shop bakery in France.
Great film.
::grin::
Dan- you never cease to brighten my day. :o)
Folks in upstate NY might know of DiBella's subs... the artwork in those stores is also disturbingly phallic. A guy holding a huge pickle waist-high over a barrell, a boy offering a girl his "sandwich" while a creepy old guy leers at them through a window... Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Mary, I haven't heard of that place, but I did find pickle image that apparently they have their walls.
yo dan? what are you doing in columbus? are you speaking? (i'm in columbus, so i am a bit curious!)
French food is so...French. Nasty. Snails.
Their best contribution to world society is cheese. Sweet, sweet cheese.
Why would YOU of all people find subversively homosexual artwork to be "fucked up"? I think it's awesome and hilarious.
More to the point, art has a long history of dirty sex jokes disguised as innocent subjects.
Aw Dan, if I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake!
How in the world did you end up having to commute from that snooty, sterile suburb when you were going to be working at Ohio State? Hope it was because you could stay with friends (and my apologies to them if that's the case.) Otherwise, there are so many nice B&Bs in Victorian Village and the Short North within walking distance of OSU that we locals can recommend for the next time you're here.
In fact, I'll bet that all of the non-Seattle sloggers could give you the best travel tips if you posted an itinerary now and then. Or would that just provoke the stalkers?
for all those wondering, dan is in town producing a field piece for "real time with bill maher." it'll air this friday.
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