butte aux cailles

So have you ever had that strange feeling when you walk into a place that you're not where you're suppose to be, that time stands still and the people around you stare at you expecting you to disappear?  That's what happened to me today when I went to check out the butte aux cailles neighborhood.  The minute I got there I noticed the strange garbage truck.  Stranger still was that there appeared to be a man in the back of the garbage truck hiding among the trash.  My eyes panned out and noticed the numerous cameras pointed right in my direction.  That's when I realized I had walked right in the middle of some kind of filming. 

Curious I installed myself in the brasserie across the street and ordered a café creme hoping to check out the action.  

Most of the crew was Japanese and 50CIMA is a apparently a Japanese car brand so I figured this film/commercial/show is Japanese.

The story line involves that briefcase getting accidentally tossed in the garbage truck and a Annie-like little boy.

It also somehow includes a pretty girl holding a carton of Orangina.

Unfortunately at this point they moved the giant truck blocking a fifth of my view to completely blocking any view from the brasserie (perhaps the girl furiously taking pictures of the action was bothering people).

So I continued on my way to check out the village-esque neighborhood and it's surprising architecture.

Before heading back to the rive droite, I decided to try again for the best Paris baguette 2014.

To make things interesting I decided to pick up two other baguettes and subject husband to a taste test.  The one up top is the baguette I normally get from our local bakery.  The one in the middle is a baguette is from another local bakery that won the best baguette in 2007.  And finally the one at the bottom is the one that beat 152 other qualifying baguettes this year to become THE best worthy of being eaten daily by the French president.

The best baguette is judged based on aspect (appearance), cuisson (cooking), mie-alveolage (texture), odeur (smell) and gout (taste).

Husband choose the middle one.  Tant mieux, the best baguette 2014 is hella far.