There's nothing better than smelling delicious food without being able to actually eat it. (colchrishadfield/Instagram)
Disclaimer: While this article scratches the crust of freshly baked facts, it does contain a sniff or two of satire.
If you thought that a scratch-and-sniff stamp was too lowbrow for France, then you would have overestimated the French people, because a new stamp has been released, in the once-proud nation, that commemorates the baguette and contains a bakery scent that can be unlocked with a scratch or two.
The new stamp can be bought in stores and post offices in France, and also online, and is for international letters. The stamp includes a red, white, and blue ribbon tied around a baguette, and French words which translate to, “The French bread loaf,” which seems a bit wordy: Everyone would have understood if it just said “La baguette” on the stamp.
We get it: the baguette is French and delicious. No one was arguing with you about these points. (mindfoodmag/Instagram)
“In case anyone was wondering, the baguette is French,” said a French official, who was arguing with nobody because we all know that the baguette is French. “It’s delicious, and it’s ours. We’ve decided to let the world continue to have access to baguettes,” the arrogant French person continued. “So, you’re welcome.”
The baguette stamp has proved to be much more popular than the Roquefort blue cheese scratch-and-sniff stamp, which represents another famously French food, and is quite pungent and offensive to the nose. The blue cheese stamp has, however, gained traction in hospitals as a method for sedating patients, and in schools for punishing children who misbehave.
Mmm, carbs. (Anastasia Ilina-Makarova/Pexels)
“A scratch-and-sniff stamp seems like a lowbrow gimmick that we might do in America, but apparently the French are stooping to our level and I applaud them for it.”
– American tourist in Paris
The history of the baguette can be traced, probably, to a man named Pierre Baguette, a haughty aristocrat who wanted a local bakery to make an item in his honor. He told the owner that his name, “Baguette,” meant ‘little bag,’ and that he wanted them to bake a loaf of bread shaped like a little bag.
The baker was unsuccessful, however, and the bread prototype came out of the oven misshapen and way too long. But Pierre Baguette, being what today’s more sensitive society would call a “halfwit,” thought the bread was perfect and that it looked just like a little bag. So he declared that long, thin shape to be the official look of the baguette, and thus a world-famous food was born.
And now there’s a stamp honoring that misshapen loaf. What a world.
