Let them eat cake

[MaryPoppins]

Hi Mary,

Working unfortunately. Major ERP upgrade going on here and the management bulltulip and politics are unbelievable, so I've had to actually pay attention for a change to avoid my part of the project getting blamed for other peoples cockups.

And yes, the link probably would do that. It's an old Mary Whitehouse Experience sketch, Hugh Dennis doing Mr Strange

I see. Bloody work, getting in the way of things.

Oh right, will watch then. Thought it was going to be some revolting milk-is-grim expose type thing. I do love me milk.

[Moscow Mule]

That's what people usually say in a crisis.

Only so they can keep an eye on you and you don't wander off and get lost.

[MaryPoppins]

That's what people usually say in a crisis.

I can imagine. I bet they use this face too:

[Pondlife]

Only so they can keep an eye on you and you don't wander off and get lost.

Followed by "I thought I told you to stay on the bus"

[thunderlizard]

Why do people squeeze bread in the supermarket? Not just one loaf either, every loaf on the shelf.

Bread is softer when it's fresher. I'm not quite that bad, but I do still instinctively give the loaf a bit of a sneaky squeeze while I'm putting it in the basket just to make sure it's not completely rock hard (it never is).

[DaveB]

I see. Bloody work, getting in the way of things.

Oh right, will watch then. Thought it was going to be some revolting milk-is-grim expose type thing. I do love me milk.

Coincidentally, so does he

[doodab]

Bread is softer when it's fresher. I'm not quite that bad, but I do still instinctively give the loaf a bit of a sneaky squeeze while I'm putting it in the basket just to make sure it's not completely rock hard (it never is).

I am convinced supermarket bread has something in it that keeps it soft. Real bread gets rock hard in a day or two, that supermarket stuff lasts for ages.

[DaveB]

I am convinced supermarket bread has something in it that keeps it soft. Real bread gets rock hard in a day or two, that supermarket stuff lasts for ages.

They stuff them full of preservatives and flour improvers to stop them going stale.

Take a sniff of a loaf of the extended life stuff some of them sell when you open it. Smells more like chemicals than bread.

[SupremeSpod]

I am convinced supermarket bread has something in it that keeps it soft. Real bread gets rock hard in a day or two, that supermarket stuff lasts for ages.

Most supermarket bread is steamed and then toasted on top to give it that oven baked look.

Spod - In "Warburtons have a bakery in my old town" mode.

[thunderlizard]

That's true. Manual bread-squeezing is a hang-over from the days when bread could have been exposed in a hot baker's all day, or just out of the oven. The modern supermarket bread process almost certainly includes a superior mechanised freshness test.