Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Wed 23 Sep 2009 02:08:46a, George told us...
>
>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:59:04 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> UK's biggest supermarket chain is threatening
>>>>> to prosecute two Italian teenagers for committing
>>>>> a horrible, unspeakable crime.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215337
>>>> The real crime should be that they were out for public display,
>>>> unwrapped/uncovered where people had the opportunity to fondle them
>>>> one by one in the first place.
>>>>
>>>> I'll take one from behind the counter, please.
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>> I don't know the actual practice there, but in the US, food is kept
>>> behind a closed door for protection, but still can be accessed if you
>>> want to buy some. Yes, they can be squeezed, but they have protection
>>> from the elements. The alternative is to eliminate self serve bakery
>>> departments.
>>>
>>> At the Stop & Shop, bakery rolls are 69¢ each, but a bag of six already
>>> packed is $2.49. Once in a plastic bag though, the crust gets soft.
>>> If should be criminal to put good crusty bread in plastic.
>>>
>>>
>> Thats one thing that cracks me up with big box stores who trumpet their
>> in house bakery. They sometimes make decent bread but then pack it in
>> plastic bags which turns it into wonder bread which totally negates the
>> value of an on premises bakery.
>>
>
> At most of the in store bakeries here in the Pheonix area, crusty bread
> products are packed in backs where the material is somewhat more like
> cellophane that has thousands of minute perforations to keep the bread
> crusty, yet relatively shieelded from actual hand contact.
>

Even the Kroger store here packs the artisan breads in paper bags, no
plastic or cellophane either. I thought for a long time they were
shipping the bread in from some place else but, after being hired by
their insurance company to do a safety inspection of the whole store
here, I found out they actually did make and bake the artisan breads
they were selling. Made me feel better about what I was buying.