Thanks, Banquet Bear, but the hell of it is, these were the only two loaves (of their kind) on the shelf!
Welcome to the board, BTW!
Actually, it’s spelled cereal.
Haj
WHO CHOPPED MY BALLS OFF?
YELP! YELP! YELP! YELP!
WHO CHOPPED MY BALLS OFF?
YELP! YELP! YELP! YELP!
I say we put Snoooooooooooooopy to rest, its better that way.
As you know if you’ve been taking comprehensive notes on my life, my husband has been living aboard our boat in Baltimore since July. Before he left Florida, I filled the “pantry” with canned goods, dry goods, and perishables. A package of hot dog buns worked its way to the back of the food locker. About 3-4 months later, he was working on a project that required him to empty that locker. He found a plastic bag full of green, gooey glop - the bag claimed to hold the lost buns. Evil, nasty mess.
Now he keeps the bread and buns in the toaster oven - he’s not lost another bag since.
Here’s a rule of thumb.
If you want dried dread, for bread pudding or french onion soup or stuffing put the loaf of bread in a paper bag. Paper bags let the moisture out and the bread DRIES.
If you want the break to stay moist, and mould on you. Leave it in the plastic bag. The only way to stop bread from moulding so quickly would be to seal in an air tight plastic container and hit it with gamma radiation to kill all of the stuff growing in there. Even then, the second you open it you’re facing a running battle against mould.
If the bread does last for a few months … It’s probably not food and should be classified as an inorganic solid.
I went to the Kroger last nite just to do the field work for Rilchiam’s bread problem!
The Pepperidge Farm bread tags said: “JAN 16”.
Which leads me to believe it was JAN 01 ~ meaning New Year’s Day.
Why was it moldy? Could it be that Pepperidge Farm, being a more “health-food” type bread, puts less preservatives in their bread?
(Sorry, Opal, I did not see the Space Bread. I think they sell it in a tube, 'round where the Cheez Whiz is).
Two thoughts:
•_Doesn’t Pepperidge Farms have a web site? Couldn’t you order your special bread online?
•_I think the OP mentioned this, but to all of you who has bread that goes moldy before you’ve eaten it all… has it ever occurred to you that bread freezes beautifully?
I live by myself and probably buy a loaf of bread twice a year. I put it into freezer bags and use whatever I need at a time and never worry about the bread being moldy or fresh.
Pepperidge Farm is now a division of Campbell’s. It is possible to order some PepFarm products through Campbell’s, but bread is not among them. Just to cover all bases, I did a Google search, but “Pepperidge Farm Online” is “temporarily closed”.
As I said in the OP, stores west of the Rockies simply do not have PepFarm bread, and apparently the company doesn’t realize someone might want it that badly.
Even though I don’t like White Castle burgers, I totally feel for people who do but have the misfortune to live in areas where there are no White Castles. I bet those frozen burgers you can get at the supermarket are a poor substitute. And yes, I used to freeze the PepFarm bread when I got five or six loaves, but that wouldn’t have helped in this instance.
In case you guys didn’t know, there is such a thing as canned bread.
When I used to work in the grocery store we used to sell a couple of cases a summer to people who were going camping or hiking…
Never tried it myself, but someone ought to make a sacrifice…
Sunday morning I woke up, went downstairs and took the cream cheese out of the fridge to soften, in anticipation of spreading it over the two bagels I had been saving. A little later I opened the plastic bag the bagels were in, only to find them covered in green mold. I was not amused, particularly since upon reflection I remembered that at least twice in the last week I had seen the bag sitting on the counter and told myself I should put it in the fridge to prevent just such an occurence.
Doesn’t anybody use a “robot-boulanger”? Put some stuff in the bread machine, close the lid, wait. You can even do other stuff while you wait.
Fresh bread. Easy. Tasty. Happy.
Knocks the stuffing out of store-bought.
Having some interaction with NASA I could tell you about space bread. But such information is only given out on a knead to know basis.
Cheers, Keithy