Someone wrote: >Someone wrote: >: "Au Bon Pain" is French. "Bon Pain" means "Good Bread." "Au" is a >: contraction of "a+le," which is literally "to the," or "of the," but it's >: one of those little prepositions that is hard to translate in idioms. > >: Maybe in French the name is more like "The Good Bread Place" in tone. > >: Betsy (but don't trust me, I took French in high school a LONG time ago) > >Fran Leibowitz once wrote of a shop in New York called "Bonjour >Croissant". She the suggested going over to Paris and opeing a store >called "Hello Toast". :) > >David Which reminds me of an excellent breakfast joint in Dover, New Hampshire called _The Friendly Toast_ on Portland Ave. Kind of like eating in a place that looks like the interior of a deranged person's mind. I love it! Then again, I've always had a love of the outre'. - X
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