• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    In all my years I’ve never walked into a friends home and been offered a baguette or a fresh slice of focaccia.

    Well then your friends suck

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      Yeah, my second to oldest daughter was visiting the other day and I offered her fresh sourdough toast and filtered chilled water, felt kind of funny like “here’s your bread and water” but it is a delicious snack.

      Sourdough is sold in stores here, a loaf from Whole Foods was the reason I started baking again, that bread was so good but mine now is often even better. So maybe there is a big overlap between people who like fancy bread and people who make it? But even so - if you are making a soup and want bread with it, nobody is buying sliced white industrial sandwich bread for that, and I will occasionally ask my husband to pick up “fancy white bread - from the bakery section not the aisles.”

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      I buy baguettes roughly twice a week. They are amazing with oil and vinegar.

      This is 4chan, though… I’m not shocked an incel would think this.

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      Agreed! I had a get together with a friend on Friday, and among our many wonderful snacks was a loaf of picante cheese bread from the bougie bakery owned by our employer. That shit slaps, and people deserve to experience the carb-rich glory.

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    “Shit, man, shit shit shit.”

    “Steve man. Calm the fuck down. What’s wrong?”

    “It’s a customer, man.”

    “Please tell me they didn’t take an orange from the bottom of the stack again.”

    “No, no. Worse. So much worse. He’s buying the boule.”

    “Ha. You had me worried for a minute. Nobody buys the boule. You misheard.”

    “No, man, I’m telling you. He asked where it was. I made him repeat the question. He said again he wanted the ‘sourdough boule.’ He’s got it in his cart now.”

    “…You’re serious.”

    “Yes, man. He’s about to fucking buy the boule.”

    “Shit, man. What are we going to do?”

    “I don’t know. I- I don’t know. This has never happened before.”

    “We have to alert them.”

    “Them?”

    “You know, them.”

    “Wh- you mean the simulation people?”

    “You got a better idea?”

    “Yeah, maybe drinking bleach. Not to mention we have no way to con-”

    “H-hello? Um… Sim- simulation people? Um-”

    “What the fuck are you doing, Ted? You fucking dipshi-”

    “Yes?”

    “…”

    “…”

    “Steve… you… you heard that, ri-”

    “I don’t have all day. What is it?”

    “Shit, um.”

    “Yes sir, um, Mister Simulator sir, I-”

    “Missus.”

    “Oh, um, sorry, the voice is just kindof… tinny an-”

    “Look, we’ve got a problem. It’s one of the… simulated.”

    “Mmm hmm?”

    “He’s on his way to the checkout now.”

    “And?”

    “He’s buying the boule.”

    “Mmm. Right. Thank you for alerting me. This anomaly will be dealt with.”

    “Oh. Um. O…kay. Um. Thank yo-”

    “Wait, how exactly will it be deal-”

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    So you think you’ve found the hole of simulation and don’t even try to buy some to see if it is really a decoration? WTF bro

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    you’re telling me that this guy saw something that he didn’t understand, but said piqued his curiosity, and instead of trying it to see what it’s like he goes straight to schizo posting about it on the Internet?

    this is why trump is winning.

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    the bread is real. what you arent seeing is the removal of the unsold products that are almost certainly being donated to homeless shelters and hog farmers, then replaced with fresh loaves the next day. there are fda rules in place to prevent leaving such products out more than a couple days.

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      are almost certainly being donated to homeless shelters being thrown away and people who are taking some are persecuted… and hog farmers

      fixed that for you :)

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        you fixed nothing maybe where you live thats how it works but here in tejas we follow food safety rules as well as donated unsold produce to our local foodbanks and shelters. if that isnt how your community works then i hope you get to experience it firsthand. i have and without those good folks deeds we wouldve starved to death a long time ago.

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          In the capitalists west, there are only small grassroots projects doing this. Most volume of that stuff goes straight in padlocked trash when best before is met

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            Can confirm that at least Target donates a LOT of food in my area, source being I was on the logistics team and literally watched trucks taking stuff to the food bank

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    Ok but if you see sliced croissant loaf, fucking buy that shit, buy two, immediately. I don’t even like to shop any more at places where they don’t sell it.

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          Count me in.

          The only issue I see with it is that since it’s wrapped in plastic it’s gonna be soft and rubbery instead of crunchy.

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            it’s gonna be soft and rubbery instead of crunchy

            I don’t think croissants are supposed to be rubbery or crunchy, are they? “Flakey” is probably what you want.

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              Yeah flakey would be a better term altthough I’d still put it in the crunchy umbrella. Like flakey means the exterior is kinda crunchy.

              Otoh don’t take me too seriously I like to dunk them in coffee or milk :p

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      Does this come in unsliced? Because cut that suckers down the middle perpendicular to the chopping board and you could make a giant toasted ham & cheese croissant slab

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    To be fair, the quality of the bread in these mass produced “artisan bakery” sections can be trash tier, like sometimes it’s wonder bread level but even more dry. Idk why they decide to do it. Maybe it was fresh at one point but these displays can get left out all week.

    Source: an NPC who sometimes buys this crap to try it.

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      Yeah a d by the time you are spending that kind of money on bread, either get it from an actual bakery or make it yourself.

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      I used to buy this kind of bread before I started making my own sourdough, but it just doesn’t compare to fresh out of the oven. It’s more or less equivalent to my own bread after a week when I have to start toasting it.

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      Our local chain, Hannaford, has pretty good stuff actually. Their cakes and pastries are good too. Walmart bakery is trash, but it’s Walmart. They do pizza rolls 👌

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    The bread is a decoration indeed. It’s there for the same reason the flowers are out the front of the supermarket, it makes the store look more welcoming and less like a warehouse that is engineered to siphon money from your wallet.

    Nobody buys that shit. We just wait for them to yeet it in the dumptster out back, then we cut the chain and take it home.

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    Idk about America, but here the fresh bread is fucking gone by 3 hours before closing. Well, except for the dark bread, there’s always a little of that left.

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    I make my own these days and regularly offer them to guests but I used to buy the stores artisan breads for lunch while working construction when I was young.

    The cost to create of a family size loaf of jalapeno and mozzerella stuffed herb focaccia is about $4.87, lower if you cheap out on oil, so theres tons of room for markup even if the store ends up throwing most of it out.

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    Wish it were a simulation. The truth is much sadder. All that bread gets tossed daily into the bin and not even offered to the homeless.