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...Pain; never underestimate the legitimacy that a simple French moniker can lend to the most shamelessly overpriced fast-food freak show. The greatest irony of all is that the Cambridge City Council smugly thinks it's done its part to help out the homeless by preventing ABP from ejecting its regular horde of homeless patrons. It seems to me a safe, clean place to live might be more important than the right to freeze to death after munching an overpriced baguette...
...even I am an example of the trend. And it doesn't really bother me in real life. Who feels like enunciating the nasally "Au Bon Pain," when you can spit out "ABP" in just one breath...
Take Au Bon Pain, the Square's colossal central coffee shop. The French words aren't too hard to pronounce, really. But the less ambitious have taken to labeling the cafe "ABP." After all, these are the '90s, and short attention spans and busy lives have reduced rules of pronunciation to a single concept: the simpler, the better...
...Today's "ABP" is all fluorescent lights and faux marble tables. The cafe added a sunroom-style front section, jazzed up its designer food display case and imported coffee beans from its neighbor and cafe rival, The Coffee Connection...
What about moving up at ABP...