Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I did not like Dave’s Killer Bread. Too sweet, too dry, just not good flavor or texture.
LaBrea is OK only if grilled, toasted, or doctored up. Not tasty on its own.
It’s a big leap from even the most expensive supermarket versions of “artisan” bread to good homemade. Safeway used to bake a frozen parbaked version right there that was decent, but I guess those weren’t profitable enough. GONE since a few years ago. The French baguettes they now sell are just more crappy white fluff. They used to sell a slightly different baguette that tasted worlds better but it, too, disappeared.
Dave's Killer Bread is a staple for me. I think it's delicious. I also love Wegman's Marathon bread.
This sounds like snobbery more than any unbiased truth. I think it's pretty spoiled to stand in a grocery store that has 25 different bread choices including rolls, muffins and loaves of all shapes, colors and sizes say there's nothing good there. There's lots of good breads there.
Don't get me wrong, I can also appreciate artisan bakery breads and home made breads, but they're not necessarily better for a sandwich than a good multigrain or rye or sourdough available in any decent grocery store.
It's a good time to be alive when we can be disappointed in all the wonderful choices we have.
Here we have baguette “ vending” machines. You can buy fresh baguettes 24/7 for about 1.00 US. A lot of bakeries ( especially the smaller ones) use cheap ingredients because baguettes are so cheap that they’d lose money using more expensive flours and such. That being said…. The bread is still magnificent!
To paraphrase my old dad, “If the French made bread out of horse s**t and bus tickets it’d still taste better than the stuff that they make in England!”
Sometimes he’d alter that to “made out of monkey p**p and brick dust”, but it meant the same.
We have a middle eastern supermarket,it has a bakery which makes French bread,pastry the European way,it has a machine which makes pita bread and several times a day,bakeries bring in Iranian,Syrian bread with white or black seasame seeds.
Bakeries do not bake bread as it is not a high margin product.
The vast majority of Americans don't know what real bread tastes like. They've grown up eating and buying the stuff weeks old that comes in plastic or "baked" at the supermarket.
You can't miss what you've never had.
back then,Europeans would have a glass of wine,bread with cheese and creamy soup for lunch,meat is reserved for dinner,meat is expensive!
so bread is an important item on the lunch menu
back then,Europeans would have a glass of wine,bread with cheese and creamy soup for lunch,meat is reserved for dinner,meat is expensive!
so bread is an important item on the lunch menu
I do miss the French Vietnamese bakery in Hawaii. A bahn mi will never be the same without that bread. It was truly a work of art.
__________________ ____________________________________________
My posts as a Mod will always be in red.
Be sure to review Terms of Service: TOS
And check this out: FAQ
Moderator: Relationships Forum / Hawaii Forum / Dogs / Pets / Current Events
There is very good bread here in the U.S. I live in a mid size city of about 200,000. We have a few really good bakeries that make bread. We also have some great, looking at you Jessica's, When Pigs Fly, etc. bakeries that sell to grocery stores.
There is no need to downgrade our foods. We are not Europe but we are not bad. We do/make/bake/create different from them and that's ok.
A Brazilian couple have not eaten meat for 2 years since COv19,they sell Acai fruits on the streets but their street cart needs repair and they dont have money to fix it,
Meat is expensive if you cant afford it,thats why people eat more rice,pasta,bread,tortilla.
It IS a shame. My aunt by marriage was from New Zealand. She used to drive my mother crazy because she would "continental" shop - every day. Sometimes more than once or twice a day. I think it's better. Way better.
Apparently she had nothing else to do.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I think it's pretty spoiled to stand in a grocery store that has 25 different bread choices including rolls, muffins and loaves of all shapes, colors and sizes say there's nothing good there. There's lots of good breads there. 
