In article > ,
Rhonda Anderson > wrote:

> Andy > wrote in :

> > Putting them out for the girls to paw at is unsanitary at best.
> > Insects can have their way with the muffins too!

Fortunately, all the insects in my area read well, and understand that
the back room is off limits to them because the door has a sign saying
"authorized personnel only". The bakery items in that back room are out
in the open cooling.

> > My supermarket bakery puts out a variety of "fresh" loaves of bread in
> > paper sacks standing on end on a wide, 3 or 4 stair-stepped shelf for
> > the public to handle/inspect/sniff. They don't seal the tops so
> > they're going stale practically the moment they put them there. The
> > muffins, cookies, etc., are in a glass display case like any other
> > bakery.
>
> I don't think it goes stale quite that quickly :-)
>
> Would you never buy bread from a traditional bakery - where the loaves all
> sit on shelves, no bags at all? Like this (though this is a modern version
> - just knew I'd be able to find photo of this company)
>
> http://www.maiala.com.au/recent/F1000005.JPG
>
> That's a national chain (franchises I think) - the one at the shopping
> centre I go to is set up similarly. The bread's not accessible to the
> public, but it is out in the open. It is all baked onsite fresh daily, and
> has all seemed fresh enough when I've bought it - even late in the day.

Our local supermarket with a bakery has a sign next to their french
bread saying fresh by four pm or it's free. When you get bread for
dinner, as long as you go after four, you know it's pretty darned fresh!

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA