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My first thought when I saw this post was, "That's not a baguette, that's french bread." I never connected that the gigantic long bread at the store with the stale dry crust that they label as "french bread" is supposed to be a baguette, which is French. Like they are too ashamed to actually call it a baguette because it kind of sucks but that's definitely what it's supposed to be.
Is french bread a regional thing in the US?
They call it stick bread (stokbrood) where I'm from, and I've seen it called french sticks in the UK. I guess we all just can't accept the french having a reasonable name for something.
‘Baguette’ is literrally the French word for stick.
In the US, baguette refers to the shape, so you can get a "sourdough baguette" which is not French style bread, or "sourdough french bread" which can be either sourdough in baguette shape or a round loaf of French style sourdough or American style sourdough made with French sourdough culture and you can get "French sandwich rolls" and "Sliced French bread" which are both made with the same ingredients that French baguettes are- flour, water, yeast and salt.