I’m trying to sort out whether something is a real memory or a figment of my imagination.
Did grocery stores used to sometimes sell colored bread? Sandwich bread, specifically? I seem to remember–and these memories would have taken place in the American Midwest in the early '80s–pink and green loaves of bread being sold in the deli section as a specialty item.
Possibly it was just green for Saint Patrick’s Day as a gimmick. But was it really a thing at all…?
We had a local-ish bakery that did that. Red and green bread at christmas, well it looked pink and pale green. Spring colors around easter. I thought it was just a local phenom.
Previous thread on rainbow bread.
We used to have pink and green bread in Hawaii in the 60’s and 70’s, don’t know beyond that. We had Loves (a local bakery) and Holsum. I know Loves made it (we only bought Loves), not sure about Holsum. I don’t know if it was available year round, but definitely around graduation season because my older sisters used to make sandwiches around that time.
Re: Rainbow bread. These were whole loaves the same color.
Beck, this would have been in Wichita, so not too far afield from you.
I’m glad to hear this wasn’t just my imagination. Though I now wonder if running coach is silently judging me for not having found that thread 
Loudly and vociferously.
Nah, I wouldn’t do that.
It’s not uncommon for a new thread to call back to previous ones.
I sell it where I work. Only at Easter time though. I’m sure it varies from bakery to bakery, the bread we sell, unlike Running Coach’s picture in the other thread isn’t a different color for each slice, but rather a tie dye/swirl type look. Kinda like this.
I have no idea if it’s a midwest thing or not, but FWIW, I’m in Wisconsin.
This is I’m (and I believe Sattua) are talking about: https://greattastebuds.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/pastel-party-sandwiches/ The crust was still brownish so you had to trim them off.
I once made green Bisquick muffins on a whim. No one else in the family would eat them and even I found them odd.
I had no idea there was even such a thing until a coworker brought in the leftovers from a bridal shower to share. There were little sandwiches and roll ups made from pastel coloured bread - all homemade and part of a family tradition of party foods. They had to custom order the bread from a local bakery, so not widely available in stores, but still possible to obtain.
The correct term is African American bread.
Chromatically Differed Americans.
That is the very picture that prompted this thread, in fact.
Whaaa? At least there’s one good thing about growing up where I did; I’ve never even heard of colored bread. We did have a bakery called Rainbow, but their bread was white or brown like the maker intended.
We occasionally had green bread when I was a kid, but it wasn’t food coloring. We grew up amazing resistant to bacteria…
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Absolutely when I was a kid growing up in the Midwest (let’s say… 30 years ago?) Jewel-Osco had green bread for St Patrick’s Day and pink bread for Valentine’s Day. There may have been others but I very specifically recall those.
There was a grocery store in the town I was living in around '99 that sold rainbow bread. My son loved having his school sandwiches made with it.
