au bon pain

[NuclearNed]

I've never eaten there - for all I know, they have the best food ever to hit the palate of man.

But really, for the average idiot American who doesn't know French (like myself), could there be a stupider name for a restaurant? How about "Eat Here and Suffer" or "Bloody Vomit will Follow"?

Can anyone tell me what it means, anyway?

 

[blustori]

good bread in french.

 

[imported_LoKe]

"Of good bread"

Depending on how you look at it.

 

[NuclearNed]

Is their food any good?

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I've never eaten there - for all I know, they have the best food ever to hit the palate of man.

But really, for the average idiot American who doesn't know French (like myself), could there be a stupider name for a restaurant? How about "Eat Here and Suffer" or "Bloody Vomit will Follow"?

Can anyone tell me what it means, anyway?

weren't you way off base with your translation....remind me never to have you translate french for me...😛

 

[JDrake]

Bring the pain

 

[jagec]

yeah, "Au" doesn't translate very well into English.

Of course, as soon as you bite into the crust of a real French baguette, and cut your gums to pieces, you'll realize why they call the stuff "pain". I can understand why the US servicemen in WW2 used to tear the crust off and throw it away, only eating the inside.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I've never eaten there - for all I know, they have the best food ever to hit the palate of man.

But really, for the average idiot American who doesn't know French (like myself), could there be a stupider name for a restaurant? How about "Eat Here and Suffer" or "Bloody Vomit will Follow"?

Can anyone tell me what it means, anyway?

weren't you way off base with your translation....remind me never to have you translate french for me...😛

The point is, if you're like me and don't know French, would you eat at a place that had "pain" in its name?

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I've never eaten there - for all I know, they have the best food ever to hit the palate of man.

But really, for the average idiot American who doesn't know French (like myself), could there be a stupider name for a restaurant? How about "Eat Here and Suffer" or "Bloody Vomit will Follow"?

Can anyone tell me what it means, anyway?

weren't you way off base with your translation....remind me never to have you translate french for me...😛

The point is, if you're like me and don't know French, would you eat at a place that had "pain" in its name?

you never know..could be a new and innovative all you can eact sushi and bondage place....happy ending not included costs extra restrictions apply 😛

 

[phantom309]

There was a great Latin fast-food restaurant chain in Atlanta called Pollo Tropical - they kept having these dumb rednecks come in thinking it was some sort of beachwear store. I think they eventually changed the name.

 

[Oil]

panera > au bon pain

 

[EvilYoda]

Having a non-English name turns you off from a restaurant? That's a sad way to pick your dinner...half of your great restaurants probably aren't of an English name.

I also met some kid at last year's Electronic Music Festival whose dad owns the Au Bon Pain in Campus Martius, Detroit...fvcker got to park there all weekend.

 

[phantom309]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Is their food any good?

I've only eaten at the ones in airports, and there the food's lousy and overpriced.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Having a non-English name turns you off from a restaurant? That's a sad way to pick your dinner...half of your great restaurants probably aren't of an English name.

I also met some kid at last year's Electronic Music Festival whose dad owns the Au Bon Pain in Campus Martius, Detroit...fvcker got to park there all weekend.

Well, the thread was written with tongue firmly placed in cheek - but perhaps you missed that.

That said, I can imagine that there might be restaurants that I would skip just based on their name alone (au bon pain not being one of them). For example: "Guts Ahoy!"

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Having a non-English name turns you off from a restaurant? That's a sad way to pick your dinner...half of your great restaurants probably aren't of an English name.

I also met some kid at last year's Electronic Music Festival whose dad owns the Au Bon Pain in Campus Martius, Detroit...fvcker got to park there all weekend.

Well, the thread was written with tongue firmly placed in cheek - but perhaps you missed that.

That said, I can imagine that there might be restaurants that I would skip just based on their name alone (au bon pain not being one of them). For example: "Guts Ahoy!"

mmmmm, guts.

😉