On 9/20/2017 1:39 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 7:22:41 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
>>
>> It goes as follows: you buy a real bread and you eat it before it goes
>> stale. I'm told that in the old days, you could even buy half a loaf.
>> How advanced is that?
>
> I understand the principle. People would walk down to their local bakery after work or during their daily errands to pick up a loaf of bread. How so very quaint. What has that got to do with the way Americans live? Nuttin.
>

Ah, some of us still do that. I can't buy a half loaf though, but you
can in parts of Europe. When I buy raisin bread I usually give half to
a friend.

In the big cities there are still bakeries where you can do that. When
I lived in Philly I could walk to three different bakeries for bread.
Maybe you don't have that in the middle of the Pacific ocean, but we
still do in many parts of our America.