Americans are adding sugar to bread?
France have so many different type of bread, different crust, different crumb.
some have holes, some don't, different forms, long, ball, oval, funny and strange, etc.
Some are white crumb, some have "complete" flour, some have cereals, etc.
even one with sugar I guess, called "pain vienois" (vienoiseries are pastries, like croissant), which is soft.
We also have industrial "pain de mie" which is only crumb, I guess what you call Toast.
just baked bread are always good, whatever the bread you eat.
I like the french stick, but again there are sooo many different way to cook it, every bakers are making a different one
you can't just tell someone to taste it by buying a stick at a different baker and expect to be the same you bought and eat yourself. it could be soft, it could be hard, etc.
the result depends a lot on the flour quality. Bread baked in France have a different taste than bread baked in other countries.
I don't eat bread that often, even if french
I eat it for sandwich, or to eat at the same time than diner (so, no butter or anything on it, it's used to "push" the aliment on the fork, or as sponge for the sauce)
I don't like bread with too many hole in the crumb, as it ends being only a crust and you can't sponge sauce or put nutella or anything liquid on it without passing through