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Post by Weyland on May 26, 2011 20:18:17 GMT
Hence G ooner? Makes no sense otherwise. Greggs is a Newcastle company. It was really good* until it went for world domination. I was born in the suburb where its one-and-only shop first saw the light of day. ____________ * Especially their Scotch pies and Cornish pasties. Not any more.
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Post by jean on May 26, 2011 21:48:12 GMT
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Post by housesparrow on May 27, 2011 8:59:17 GMT
There is no time to lose.
We must start a Stub Crouch "Campaign for real bread" along the lines of the highly successful Real Ale movement.
We can lobby bakers, hold Bread Festivals, hand out leaflets and publicise those shameful enough to continue with the Chorleywood method.
Those of us wicked brave enough to do so * could even target transgressors with threats of weevils.
*no names, but you know who you are.
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Post by jean on May 27, 2011 11:40:32 GMT
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 27, 2011 15:48:33 GMT
I supported Denmark during the cartoon unpleasantness, ate my own bodyweight in Danish bacon I did...and this is how they repay us? Fuck you Denmark...Judas's. AH
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Post by housesparrow on May 27, 2011 18:22:03 GMT
Ah...but do they have intrepid activists prepared to sabotage bakers and inject weevils into loaves? We could always claim we were adding protein. I've dusted off trhe breadmaker and have a loaf on the go right now.
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Post by Weyland on May 27, 2011 18:46:18 GMT
I've dusted off trhe breadmaker and have a loaf on the go right now. ..er.. I couldn't possibly comment.
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Post by housesparrow on May 27, 2011 19:07:31 GMT
The Real Bread Campaign wouldn't approve because it is a white loaf made with Sainsbury's cheapest bread flour. I'm unreprentant.
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Post by aubrey on May 28, 2011 9:48:47 GMT
But I don't like Real Bread.
And surely real old style bread has a load of chalk in it? Or fine sawdust.
When I started getting Warburton's (I think it was Sainsbury's that had it first; I had to go quite a long way anyway), I thought they were sticking to the old maxim The Best Firms Advertise the Least. Then I went to my mother's in Yorks and saw my first Warburton's advert. Quite a shock.
Before then, I had a hell of a time finding decent bread - IE, thin sliced (for folding) and white (I don't like brown or wholemeal).
Is that black jar special Marmite the same as Marmite used to be? Is it worth getting for that? It is hard to stick up for Marmite since they made it thinner (and also deactivated the Marmite Message board, because it was full of people complaining about the new style).
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Post by jean on May 28, 2011 12:36:50 GMT
And surely real old style bread has a load of chalk in it? Or fine sawdust. Only if by real old style bread you mean commercial adulterated bread. But swapping one kind of rubbish for another is not the way forward.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2011 13:49:42 GMT
Warbertons bread is soft 'pappy' rubbish . - Slightly better than some , but given the choice of it or other " cheap sliced " bread I would choose others..........
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Post by jean on May 28, 2011 14:31:47 GMT
Farmer, you do not disappoint!
Only this morning at the Farmers' Market I was examinig a loaf of Bauernbrot at the German baker's. I asked him what the Bauer put in his Brot and he was so delighted at my apparent command of German that he reeled off a list of ingredients I got lost halfway through...
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Post by Patrick on May 28, 2011 16:59:36 GMT
The one Supermarket that did bake decent bread, and always had a wide range of types in stock, surprisingly was......
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Post by aubrey on May 28, 2011 17:37:34 GMT
I quite like real bread with something like soup, but I can't have soup now, and what I want bread for mostly is sandwiches. I've tried all the types - Kingsmill, Mother's Pride etc etc and they're all horrible.
I don't want bread to taste of much, that's the thing. Kingsmill has a nasty yeasty taste, and all the others are just manky.
Warburton's lasts a long time as well. I've had that stuff that goes off after a couple of days, and it just gets wasted. (Or else I break my teeth on it.)
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Post by housesparrow on May 28, 2011 18:27:31 GMT
Not everyone wants a wholegrain organic loaf, but it would be good to know which bakers adopt the Chorleywood process and which ones avoid it.
Judging from its website, the Real Bread Campaign may have missed an opportunity in this respect; it could shift its focus more towards the commercial bakeries and provide them with some incentive to produce a more natural loaf.
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