Ah, Parisians; effortlessly cool, always chic and infamous for their harsh judgement of ignorant tourists.
However, one TikTok video by Australian expat @lilidebois proved passing visitors aren't the only ones who can face condemnation after making a faux pas.
A recent video by the travel blogger living in Paris was captioned "To bite or not to bite? Personally, a whole baguette has never made it home," and showed de Bois eating the end of her baguette.
"French people I need to know!!!" read the text in the video. "Do you eat the end of your baguette as soon as you buy it? or is that rude or unfrench?"
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According to French viewers, whether or not she ate the baguette en route wasn't the biggest issue.
TikTok user @stellacastets wrote "Yes! But I've never seen someone biting into it directly. We take a piece of it and then eat it."
As one would expect with the French, viewers got particularly passionate about this food-related error.
TikTok user @parisianlights described de Bois' baguette eating as "culturally insensitive" and demanded an apology.
They weren't the only one who saw it as a carb catastrophe.
Other viewers also said, while having a nibble on the way home was normal, you should break the end off with your hands rather than ripping it off with your teeth.
One user wrote: "WHO EATS THE BAGUETTE LIKE THAT OMG NEVER AGAIN."
"What your doing it's the same feeling an Italian can have when you cut spaghetti," suggested another.
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Advertise with NZME.De Bois' biting downright sinful according to one viewer who wrote: "yeah but you'll never see a Frenchman eating from the baguette directly, that's like unholy."
Amongst the outrage, one TikTok user did come to her defence and wrote: "Stop baguette shaming her sis."
