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    3 hours ago

    I’m just laughing at “bread” and “proof” but I know they didn’t intend on the pun.

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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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    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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    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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      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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      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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    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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    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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          Have worked in grocery stores, it just gets thrown out. The level of food waste in the United States is legitimately stomach churning.

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            HEB is the only native grocery store in Texas that matters, and they make sure they recover 95% of the food that isn’t fit for human consumption by getting it to farms and such. They also, separately, are involved in food bad and other human wellness activities, including running logistics for hurricane relief (as an example).

            HEB is too good for Texas.

            https://ourtexasourfuture.com/food-recovery/

            https://newsroom.heb.com/disaster-relief/

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              Arizona it’s literally considered illegal to dumpster dive anywhere inside of a curb and yet they still also pour bleach on the tossed food at grocery stores to “dissuade” people.

              So you can be arrested if you survive being poisoned.

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            In France it is illegal to throw food out. It has to go to the homeless or those stores will get fined.

            You do know most people don’t live in the US, right?

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              You can safely assume American when you see English and monstrous business behaviors. Aside from that I think the US makes up most of Lemmy traffic anyhow.

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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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            That is illegal in France. Which as far as I know is capitalist west.

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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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    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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    i’ll buy some sourdough or a baguette. usually when reduced to clear.

    Also when i was on holiday in the US; sourdough bread was all i could eat. seriously guys, your sandwich bread fucking SUCKS!

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      The grocery stores have shit bread. It’s also the reason people don’t buy these ones there. Cause if you like good bread you will go to a bakery or make it at home.

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    This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.

    You take the normal bread – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

    You take the fancy bread – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I’m offering is the truth – nothing more.”

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      Are you watching their politics? This can’t be real, the writers are all over the top. The whole country is a simulation.

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        I get some things when I scroll through c/all, that’s way then enough for me. I have no idea how the presidential race can even be remotely close. That being said I’m afraid that this behaviour and talking points are coming more and more to us. Some politicians of a conservative party here met several times with republicans and brought some “bright” ideas over here. Guess I’ll do the Robinson Crusoe some time and just move to a small island so I don’t have to deal with all this nonsensical shit fest.

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      Sheltered American…they can’t keep the bread on the shelves where I’m at

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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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      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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      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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      “Hey, man! Glad you could make it! Can I get you anything? Some chips, some pretzels, an entire baguette, maybe some iced tea or something?”