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2 to 4? that's almost as good as 2:1!

@1 - duh... that's twice as good.

thank you for realizing the importance of the chocolate to pastry ratio. you must be an engineer at heart.

Didja get a new camera? That one doesn't suck; it's nice.

7 A.M. North Hill Bakery. Those chocolate croissants are the Mutha' Fuckin' Truth.

Same old camera, Fnarf...

Careful with those, Dan! You don't want to turn into one of those fatties you so despise...

Ever thought of publishing the Stranger from an RV? It seems like so much of the slogging and much of the reporting is just Capitol Hill navel gazing. With a mobile publishing unit, the navel-gazing could be turned into micro-reporting on some other part of Seattle for once, so you could spread all the free advertisements around.

Hey dan, trader joes sells a four pack of these. You let them sit overnight, they rise and then you pop em in the oven and they are just as good as the ones in france.

So this is what will turn Dan into a fattie!! Will Terry still want you when you have the same shape as Rush Limbaugh?

I know, Cato—that's why I just have one and then go make myself thrown up.

Summer is here, or coming, and I intend to get on my bike and leave the hill for my early-morning-cafe Slogging at least twice a week. It's not an RV—could you imagine what ECB would do if we got an RV?—but the ride will allow me to eat more without guilt.

And I don't despise fat asses, H. I don't want one myself, and I don't think the size of an ass and diet and exercise are unrelated. If it makes you feel better to think I despise, though, you go right ahead.

I know you don't despise, Dan. I'm just giving you shit because I'm bored.

As you often say, thanks for playing Slog!

Besalu in Ballard is better. 100 times better. Finest croissant this side of France.

Your post made me drool.
Is it lunchtime, yet?

If it's sunny tomorrow in the AM, I will ride out to Ballard, Butter! Do you know if they have Wifi? If they do I will, of course, Live Slog my Besalu croissant.

Besalu thankfully does not have wifi, but Javabean does and it's three doors down. Plus, there's three wide-open Linksys networks nearby.

Gee Dan, Just kidding..... *YIKES* talk about being hyper emotional. You should have more chocolate.

Chocolate bread, not croissant. Croissant == crescent. Chocolate "croissants" aren't shaped like crescents.

do it, dan. you know you want to.

@18: Pain au chocolat, not chocolate bread! Chocolate bread sounds like... I don't know... the cutesy African American equivalent of "white bread" normalcy? Ew.

I think you should order more - and give them to me.

"Chocolate bread" ... you mean like those chocolate swirl breads you can buy in Paris?

I was kidding back, Cato. Looks like we'll both have to start using emotocons.

Oh, that's a chocolate croissant? In the pic I thought it was meat loaf.

*shrug* not sure how i feel about that pain au choc, dan. the eggwashing looks pretty haphazard and streaky, and the stacked-chocolate-baton idea keeps the laminated dough from inflating in the oven fully. though i fully admit that it sucks to bite into one where all the chocolate is wadded off to one side. not sure if there's a happy medium. i've been away from seattle for several years, but i'm still putting my money on besalu for viennoiserie.

love, a boy in providence who makes way too many of these stupid things every day

I'm glad something is still good there. I used to dine there a couple of times a month but then I had two mediocre-to-bad meals in a row with harried service recently and am reluctant to go back.

@18
thanks

It looks more like a sausage roll.
But a yummy one!
Ya I would eat it.
I can't help myself.
Damn now I have to go find the equivalent somewhere.
THANKS DAN SAVAGE!

@20,

Well, if you want to get all hoity toity, but chocolate bread is the translation and I'm sure as shit not going to walk into a restaurant and order "pain au chocolat." When you order an apple tart, do you ask for tarte aux pommes?

Dan, you are getting far too elitist--what happened to your love for cheap chocolate cake??

@27 - when I'm in France, you bet I do.