Products like cereal, cookies or crackers sold in stores are usually designed to stay fresh for a long time. Since freshly baked things are always better than the next day, I’m wondering if cereal or other factory foods taste significantly more awesome if just off the line. Is it true? Can you buy fresh foods from some factory stores?
One data point:
I took the behind the sceens tour of a Budweiser brewery, and at one point the guide tapped into an aging tank of Bud light (! I know, right?) right before the beer was bottled. It tasted amazing!
If it tasted like that when you bought it, I might consider drinking it. (spoiler alert: it doesn’t.)
Just read the “regional foods” thread, which mentioned Krispy Kremes. When we got them out here, and you have a batch in the store, they are awesome. When someone brings a box into work, they are underwhelming. I’d rather have Dunkins than “old” KK.
A former coworker would go on and on about how delicious a warm, fresh off the line Tootsie Roll was during his visits to the factory.
I’ve been to a couple major tortilla factories here in Chicago. I never went to too many food plants and would never touch product at a place like that unless told it was ok by management but I’ll bet those tortillas were awesome. They’re cut out of a large sheet of masa nixtamalera by something resembling a huge ravioli roller and plop onto a wire mesh belt a few feet wide to travel through the oven. On the other side, they were all puffed up a few inches before quickly deflating. It smelled really good in there.