Do you like Bread?

[Cinnamon_Imp]

I thought this was going to be a thread about a family of lovable Liverpudlian rogues and scoundrels

[Missy2U]

Bread plain with nothing on it? Meh. Not really. Bread with stuff on it? I could ramble on forever about different combos.

[Sage_Rat]

Bread kills!

[Siam_Sam]

@Siam_Sam

I like bread, and the quality of what you find in Thailand has vastly improved from a couple or three decades ago. Used to be all you could find here was this gummy shit that was just awful. When the Thais would try it, they’d simply gag. I’d tell them no, they didn’t understand, this was NOT what normal people in the West ate, we had much better bread than that. They would give me pitying looks. But now there are all sorts of good bakeries here, and they’ve got some really good bread.

@VinylTurnip

Was it actually made with wheat flour? I remember, years ago, going into a “New York Bakery” that was owned by Asians— not sure whether they were Chinese or Korean. They sold bread, pastries, cakes and such, but everything was made from mung beans. The couple of things that I tried had the consistency of epoxy.

Dunno. But it really was horrid stuff. I think they must have had wheat flower here though, because one of the main bread brands here is Farmhouse, and while they’re decent, they claim to have been around for 33 years. I can’t say I saw them before 15 or 20 years ago, so they must have started small. They’re in just about every supermarket and convenience store now. A subsidiary of the giant Saha consumer goods conglomerate.

Pastries too, those generally used to taste like eating pure Crisco. But all you had to do was step across the border to Malaysia, and wonderful pastries were everywhere. Definitely a case of ingredients used. Nowadays the pastries in Bangkok are world class, and fancy five-star bakeries abound. They’ve really learned.

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Depends on the bread really… I can eat sourdough or other artisanal type breads all day long, but I tend to reserve things like hamburger buns, or sliced bread for use in sandwiches. I don’t eat it on its own or with butter/cheese.

Luckily, my wife likes to bake, so it’s not uncommon to have fresh baked parker house rolls, or wheat bread, or various other bread products around the house.

[Arrogant_B_st_rd]

I avoid eating plain bread as much as possible. It looks a bit too…prole-ish…for my tastes.

[dracoi]

While I do like things on bread, I could happily eat bread plain. If I’m eating it plain, then I want a nice texture, like a good crust and chewy interior.

For example, I often finish my wife’s pizza crusts. A good pizza crust really doesn’t need the rest of the pizza to be worth eating.

[stillownedbysetters]

Baby, I’m a want you. Baby, I’m a need you…

I’m a want you plain or buttered

I’m a need you fresh from the oven

I’m a want you for breakfast toast

I’m a need you for sandwiches.
I adore bread. I grew up baking bread with my grandmother, and the whole baking and eating process just brings back the warmest and fuzziest of memories. Plus it just tastes soooooo good.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

@dracoi

While I do like things on bread, I could happily eat bread plain. If I’m eating it plain, then I want a nice texture, like a good crust and chewy interior.

For example, I often finish my wife’s pizza crusts. A good pizza crust really doesn’t need the rest of the pizza to be worth eating.

I’ll do you one better, dracoi, I would put a good pizza crust ABOVE pumpernickel, and you know how I feel about pumpernickel. Olive Garden, of all places, recently stopped making pizzas :eek: ; they had a chicken Alfredo pizza (no tomato sauce), the crust of which would knock your socks off–you’d be running down the street barefoot, yelling Gimmee back my socks!

Yeah, what is it with wives and pizza crusts, anyway?