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  • How much smaller can they make a slice of bread?

    From Nomen Nescio@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 19:12:32 2025
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    The damn slices are so thin they hardly offset the stronger taste of
    the jelly or peanut butter.

    A slice sits so low in the toaster, I have to use the tip of a small
    knife to pull the slice up and out.

    Plus, the damn stuff is mostly air. Have you bought an Italian loaf
    lately? It so blown up with yeast and air it's like trying to eat a
    balloon.

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  • From Nomen Nescio@21:1/5 to The Real Bev on Fri Jul 25 22:14:43 2025
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    In article <105uuff$tvhj$[email protected]>
    The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 7/24/25 10:12, Nomen Nescio wrote:
    The damn slices are so thin they hardly offset the stronger taste of
    the jelly or peanut butter.

    A slice sits so low in the toaster, I have to use the tip of a small
    knife to pull the slice up and out.

    Is this the white bread that you can roll up into a 3/8" ball without breathing hard? "Sandwich bread"?

    Yes.


    Plus, the damn stuff is mostly air. Have you bought an Italian loaf
    lately? It so blown up with yeast and air it's like trying to eat a balloon.

    That stuff has always been like that. Even as a kid I wouldn't eat it.

    It was quite a bit more chewable back when.

    BUT I have a different problem. I always buy what is known as
    "wide-pan" bread, whose slices are about half an inch wider than the
    length of the toaster slot. I can either force the bread in or cut off
    one of the edges. I force the bread in, of course, but I resent having
    to do that. They've sold wide-pan bread for decades now, when will the toaster people catch up?

    I never heard of such a bread. I guess Wonder Bread and Butternut had
    us fully brainwashed to not even look further on the bread shelves but
    for them. Amazing.

    I like the govt's nonsense about 26% inflation. Bread a couple of
    years back was about eighty cents a loaf. It's anywhere now from three
    to four dollars a loaf where we are. That raise in price is more like a
    three to four time increase, and that's a lot more than 26%.

    What really angered me back about ten years or so is when there were "second-hand" stores who sold the out-of-date loafs for fifteen cents a
    loaf. My yard birds and raccoons ate 'em up like crazy. Then those
    stores disappeared. My guess is the greedy bread companies realized
    how much those stores were stealing profits from them and bought them
    out.

    How about raw hamburger which used to be somewhat over a dollar a
    pound. The price now is anywhere from four to thirteen dollars a pound depending on fat content. Aren't we lucky the price has only risen
    26%? You bet.
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  • From Nomen Nescio@21:1/5 to The Real Bev on Sat Jul 26 19:20:33 2025
    In article <1061up4$1aqt6$[email protected]>
    The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 7/25/25 13:14, Nomen Nescio wrote:
    In article <105uuff$tvhj$[email protected]>
    The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 7/24/25 10:12, Nomen Nescio wrote:
    The damn slices are so thin they hardly offset the stronger taste of
    the jelly or peanut butter.


    Del


    Before Covid generic GOOD Kroger whole wheat bread was $2 for a 24-oz
    loaf. Now it's $3. No idea what Wonder "sandwich bread" is, but it's
    not worth it.
    What really angered me back about ten years or so is when there were "second-hand" stores who sold the out-of-date loafs for fifteen cents a loaf. My yard birds and raccoons ate 'em up like crazy. Then those
    stores disappeared. My guess is the greedy bread companies realized
    how much those stores were stealing profits from them and bought them
    out.

    My mom and I used to go to one of those outlet stores. Oroweat, among
    other classy brands. Maybe a buck a loaf, plus a big senior discount
    plus they would throw extra loaves at you just because they liked you.
    We filled our freezers every time we went. There are still two in the
    Los Angeles area (when I looked a few months ago) but they're too far to drive just for bread.

    How about raw hamburger which used to be somewhat over a dollar a
    pound. The price now is anywhere from four to thirteen dollars a pound depending on fat content. Aren't we lucky the price has only risen
    26%? You bet.

    When I first started shopping it was 29, 39 or 49 cents, depending on
    fat. Cigarettes were a quarter a pack, the same price as a gallon of gas.

    I remember back-when gas prices very well. When I was15 and broke,
    I'd go up and down the alleys and collect the discarded, empty Coke and
    Pepsi bottles. I brought them to the neighborhood small grocery and
    received two cents deposit for each bottle.

    That two cents for enough bottles filled the gas tank of my used '47
    Harley so i could ride around the '49 countryside for just about all
    day. And that was a nice ride before the "suburbs" grew into the over
    crowed mess they are today. I was on bikes until age 80, which was
    about ten years ago. My wife of 55 years also misses the rides along
    the beautiful Mississippi ,and the ride where we scootted our way to
    Hannibal, Mo. for her catfish dinner.

    Yeah, I remember 25 cent gasoline.

    It's unfortunate that our value systems were set in concrete when we
    first started earning and spending our own money. For the rest of our
    lives everything is too expensive.

    There were no credit cards back then. My mom would put necessities on a
    lay away plan. She paid what she could each week until the item was
    fully paid for. Back in those '40's, she raised me by herself on $30
    a week. And that 30 bucks paid the rent and had me eating roundsteak
    or fish for every supper. Incredible. Who of the modern generation
    would believe that today?

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    Cheers, Bev
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    civil is entirely sufficient.

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