My local food bank has some of the most hoity toity bread I’ve ever seen. No Wonder Bread in sight. What gives? Are these companies donating directly?
Food Bank Bread
My local food bank has some of the most hoity toity bread I’ve ever seen. No Wonder Bread in sight. What gives? Are these companies donating directly?
yeah
It's most likely short dated product from grocery stores. Check the dates.
most bakeries will dump their day old bread
Supermarket bread has a long shelf life because preservatives.
Real bread goes stale very quickly.
Those $7 artisan sourdough loaves? After 24 hours they are worth like $1. Or zero.
For thousands of years before supermarkets, we all baked or bought our "daily bread", every morning.
But now we eat poison. Hail corporate!
>visiting family in jordan as a child
>aunt brings me along on a morning bakery run
>gives me some change to buy a pastry
Fuck. Bakeries are comfy. If I ever live within walking distance of one I’ll make it a habit to go at least once a week.
we have lost a lot as a society
Yet you're still here participating in it.
yes, however I did not ask to be born.
Correct, the society is so corrupt it now taxes you heavily just for attempting to leave it.
>If I ever live within walking distance of one
i mean you have to literally TRY to not live within walking distance of one
even the smallest bumfuck nowhere towns have minimum 1 bakery, 1 pub, 1 gas station
I live in the suburbs. There is no bakery within walking distance. I still drive there every once in a while. But I like the idea of having one as a saturday morning stroll destination.
>live in a city of 100k people
>no bakeries anywhere nearby unless you count grocery stores
>WinCo bakery is shit
>Walmart bakery is shit
>Rosaurers bakery is shit
Do bakeries really even exist anymore? I've never seen one in my town except some hippy sweet shops with overpriced cookies that don't even taste that great.
Ameritard moment.
I decided to Google "bakeries near me" and the closest one is not a bakery for people. It is called a barkery and they make treats for dogs. What in the ever living fuck. I hate America, why did my grandma have to leave Europe?
This is actually something I've noticed in my home state. There is not a single fucking authentic bakery in Michigan, it's all white women selling cupcakes and cookies or cakes. I'd like to ditch supermarket junk, the only alternative is driving 40 minutes to an Iraqi bakery to pick up the bread made fresh in the morning. It has to be the lardass German and Pole genes causing everyone to crave sweet garbage.
>sweet chinese food
>sweet barbeque sauces
>sweet meats
>sweet indian food (some of the pajeets realized adding sugar to their food is catnip for Michigan locals)
>sweet mexican food
>sweet thai food (the noodles in particular)
It just never fucking ends
It does feel insulting when every chinese place is serving sugar slop when you know they could make shit thats so much better. I’ve been going to one spot long enough that they know I like my orders with half the typical sweetness and will accommodate me. Cool-ass mongolian family. I need to bring in a large bill and ask for an authentic mongolian feast one of these days.
Outside of donut shops not really because the margins on bread are so small. Meanwhile plenty of people will pay $4 for donuts the size of their faces.
its harder to make donuts the size of your face than it is to make bread.
Winco bakery used to sell these amazing little sourdough rolls which were almost all crust. So good.
I am so fucking hurt feelings and butt ranged that they stopped carrying those.
My city of 5 million people has ZERO actual bakeries. Only mexican pastry shops calling themselves bakeries. If you want bread you either make it yourself or buy the cancer loafs.
You can usually get some decent sandwich rolls from mexican bakeries at least.
Based Aussie. My local bakery is good, but the next town over is better. Sometimes I drive over there to get one of their amazing custard tarts
>Fuck. Bakeries are comfy. If I ever live within walking distance of one I’ll make it a habit to go at least once a week.
>we have lost a lot as a society
but now we have big houses and big yards! stop being poor!
Honestly I'd much rather live in a nice big comfy air-conditioned house and eat shitty bread than live in a shitty little hovel and eat fresh bread
gottem
gottem?
Plus there are plenty of uses for old bread, most not done anymore. Soup thickener, puddings etc. In the old days stale bread was "bad" because it was a shame not to enjoy while fresh, it was always eaten on one way or another.
it was also used in meatballs/sausages etc because it not only used up more stale bread but gave
thats why Jamie Oliver is right you shouldn't buy breadcrumbs but also nobody else can afford to buy a $20 loaf of bread every day to have stale bread to use.
we need to go back to using bread in more pudding and cakes, its a shame bread and butter pudding is considered old fashioned when a bit of marmalade and chocolate brings it up to date.
>we need to go back to putting bread in everything
We unironically don't, and the people eating that shit back then would much rather eat meat
Bread and cheese soup is super good and a great use of old bread.
poggers breads
I work at a food pantry. Yes. The bakeries donate directly. You'd be really surprised what kind of donations we get direct from places. We give out premade sandwiches, bagels, fresh veggies, fresh fruit, even sushi. The pantry is obviously in a poorer community but anyone who comes walks away with a ton of fresh and delicious food. It really shows the great hearts of these store owners. On another note, are you in a tough spot? Would love to help you out with some cash if you have a PayPal or something. Have donated to many people who are having rough times. Always happy to help.
Not OP but while extremely kind of you be careful please (not that you wouldn’t already be).
I suspect anon may be in Yakima (I had family that lived there), and if so it’s a terrible place for food (cold American cheese slice on “pizza” tier)
>Not OP but while extremely kind of you be careful please (not that you wouldn’t already be).
Thanks. I am careful. I just like yo share the blessings that have been given to me. I don't consider it my time or money so I do the best with it that I can to help others
I'd go to a food bank if I knew where one was. No shame in struggle.
Hope things get better anon
OP here, thank you anon, I couldn't possibly accept money from you but just knowing that there are people out there like you is refreshing.
Are you 100% sure? Its no problem.
I’m sure my friend. Please take that money and save it for the next person in need. Things are tough right now but the future is looking good for me and I would hate to accept anything when there are other people in worse situations. I want to genuinely thank you though, you really brightened my day.
You are a good man. If you change your mind I'll monitor this thread. Honestly I've helped a bunch of people in bad situations and I am always looking to share the blessings I have been bestowed. Don't think because you accept that the next person will get less. I will always accept every situation with as much seriousness as the first.
Well, if you truly want to, I guess you can. I’m a firm believer in paying it forward though so I will be sure to help someone else in need when I’m able to. I really didn’t expect this all from a post about bread but I am very thankful. Feels kind of weird just posting this here but my cash app is $JustinD591
I don't have a cashapp but I will make one.
I'll have the money to you in about a week. I'm waiting on a new card. Keep a look out. I looked but there's no message functionality in the app I can see, so I hope you see this.
Thank you so much and no worries. If it becomes too much of a hassle then I understand. Like I said before, this interaction alone has been uplifting.
Its no hassle! Don't worry!
ay yo dis nigga eaten moldy ass bread ya'll
I love macrina bread, sometimes I get it at PCC market.
My cousin just got a frozen
bag of the bread Panera uses for their bread bowls.
You're just living in socialist seattle which is good for you as a borderline homeless mega poorfag. Enjoy it, might be the companies donating directly as part of some kind of publicity thing, or maybe some kind of overstock, or maybe a city/state law about bakeries or stores having to donate a certain portion of their output to food banks. Could really go a lot of ways.
all charity in america is done for tax breaks, dood.
Bread is pretty cheap to make no matter what, but these hoity toity breads are sold at a massive markup. Since they are so expensive, few people buy them so they end up getting donated/thrown. But this isn't an issue since they are sold at a massive markup, its better economically to have excess bread available in case a customer might buy it as opposed to not making enough bread and losing a sale.
>hoity toity
it's just bread, dumbshit.
it's all bread that goes in the wastebin otherwise
Probably this, bread products don't last long. If I go to my local bakery at like 9pm when they're about to close they usually throw in some extra shit like croissants for free because they'll be inedible by morning.
Just a thought about the tax write off when you donate to charity - is the amount the bakery can write off based on the retail price of the good, or its production costs? I mean if you can make a loaf of fancy bread for 50 cents of ingredients and charge $5, being able to write off $5 for each loaf of donated bread would give bakeries a very strong incentive to overproduce to reduce their taxes.
I used to have a clutch foodbank with a giant bread bin you could take whatever you want. i would skip the sun-condensated bread on top and grab the nice shit, the 'hoity toity' artisan breads at the bottom.
BUT
now they have a no-touch policy and a volunteer will hand you a couple loaves of hotdog buns and keto sliced bread from the top of the pile, and even if they do hand me a nice loaf of sour-dough, the bread is now always stale form sitting in the sun all morning at the top of the bread bin, fuck fuck, time to start baking my own bread
They expire faster, so they need to get rid of it.