"Roy" > wrote in message
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> On Friday, October 31, 2014 6:04:31 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>> > On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 04:45:53 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>"JohnJohn" > wrote in message
>> >>news >> >>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 01:57:43 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>I just made half of this recipe. Why do so many bread recipes make
>> >>>>two
>> >>>>loaves? It would be rare for me to need two loaves at once.
>> >>>
>> >>> We always put one in the freezer, assuming it's not full.
>> >>
>> >>I can't see the point in that. I haven't got freezer space for a whole
>> >>loaf
>> >>and I hate bread once it has been frozen. It's okay for toast but not
>> >>for
>> >>eating fresh.
>> >
>> > Give one loaf to someone as a gift... it's silly to light an oven for
>> > one measly loaf... use half the dough to make rolls.
>>
>> No thanks. I'm not going out and buying another pan or having to find
>> someone to give it to. We also don't eat rolls. Nor would batter bread
>> work well for rolls.
>
> You don't eat rolls? Why everyone in America eats rolls. What is a hotdog
> bun?...but a "roll". Anyway, You have to be kidding on that one.
> ===

Nope. Not kidding. Don't eat hot dogs either. I grew up in a house where
we mainly only ever ate bread on road trips. Cold meatloaf sandwiches.
Perhaps once or twice a year, usually on the 4th of July, my dad might make
hamburgers that we ate on buns. We ate hamburger patties all the time. No
buns. My mom sometimes made hot dogs. No buns either. She liked them. I
wouldn't eat them. We did have a package of those awful brown and serve
rolls on holidays if we ate at home but we often went out to eat. My mom
thought that bread and bread products were bad for us and would make us fat.
My dad did eat Roman Meal bread. He took sandwiches to work. I don't
remember ever being given any of that to eat.

Other than that, we bought our loaves three at a time, perhaps once or twice
a year at U Market. It was one of those cut rate places where you took a
grease pencil when you entered the store and wrote the prices on your
products then put them on a flat bed cart. No bags. You took stuff home in
boxes or brought your own bags. We only bought when on sale and I think in
those days they were 3/$1. It was really cheap, no brand stuff. Two white
and one wheat. They went into the freezer which fueled my hate for frozen
bread. Perhaps once a month my mom would allow me to bring my lunch to
school and often it was a sandwich.

My husband did grow up eating bread, but how often? I don't know. I don't
recall his mom ever putting bread or rolls on the table with meals. They're
Italian. She did make bread salad which he refused to eat because it was
food of the poor. She often made soup, pasta dishes, eggplant Parm., pizza.
Lunches were either eggs and peppers on Italian bread or some kind of meat
salad on rolls. Her sister worked at a bakery and there was a discount
bread store near their house so they always had a lot of bread products but
they weren't necessarily fresh.