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The "Twin Cities" of Southwest Michigan - Benton Harbor and St. Joseph - are located among a cluster of communities on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.From: http://www.whirlpoolcorp.com/whr/careers/location.html
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WW-- commented Does anybody remember Wonder Bread?
Wonder Bread being a classic example of the fluff made of flour and yeast that passed for bread in many parts of US. it was a light and fluffy as angel food cake.. with even less flavor.. a 1 lb. loaf was the size of a football field.. and a 98 lb weekly, could mash is flatter than a pancake in no time flat.
Bread, like language, rapidly becomes localized.. my parent hated wonderbread, and when we kids nagged and cried, and they finaly bought it.. we didn't like it either.. we had already learned to like real bread..
the same thing happened with my own children.. i baked bread, often white (the Cornel Cooperative Extention enriched loaf, known as Cornell bread--Hi Faldage!) and my son, now a parent, bakes bread for his family!
bread is a flexable (as food) and as a word..
break bread -- eat
have bread -- (have) money
white bread-- ordinary, bordering on boring
shortnin' bread -- a quickie!
others?
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Dear of Troy:
Here's another:
Best thing since sliced bread
I like thinking about the breadfruit tree, by the way. Never saw one. Know nothing about them. But, oh, the images those two words evoke!
Bread regards,
WordWaxing
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And I thought they were Detroit and South Lyon. Sigh, another childhood dream smashed.
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Gor those who seem to think frying and grilling are the same thing I challenge them to do eggs over easy on a grill.
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There was, back in Arizona in the 70s, an abomination that actually® sold under the brand name Balloon® Bread. Puffy Loaf®, on the other hand, was the creation of some science fiction writer.
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Wonder Bread (Builds Strong Bodies Twelve Ways; look for the blue, yellow and red balloons) is still made. I saw some at the store three days ago.
FOOD ENTRY: Wonder Bread is an extreme example of the commercial bread-manufacturing technique in the US of beating air into the bread dough to make it rise rather than permitting the yeast to ferment. The air-rise/yeast-rise distinction is a major reason that US bread is such crap when compared to European breads.
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Dear Sparteye,
You wrote:
Wonder Bread is an extreme example of the commercial bread-manufacturing technique in the US of beating air into the bread dough to make it rise rather than permitting the yeast to ferment.
So, was there yeast in Wonder Bread (or currently in Wonder Bread)? All air rising? A second cousin of cotton candy? Or is there unfulfilled yeast in Wonder Bread?
That's plumb astonishing (or plum astonishing--don't know whether we solved that question today here).
Best regards,
WW
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In Colonial times, I doubt that there was any such thing as white bread. People got very tired of coarse bread, and when white bread first became available, few could afford it. So when light white bread became available, almost everybody wanted it, for no better reason than that it was something new. When I was a boy a chemical was used to bleach flour. One of the best things President Truman did was to make that illegal.
The wonderful thing about bread is the large number of varieties. I will never get tired of enjoying the aroma of home-made bread just out of the oven. I used to make dough in machine, but always baked it in the oven.
I can sympathize with German POW's in WWII who revolted, risking being shot, because they so dispised American bread.
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If any of you here travel in Mexico, pleeeease [ Pleiades] don't buy pan Bimbo. [ bimetallic] It's terrible, worse than Wonder Bread. The pan integral (whole wheat) looks like it was made with the sweepings from the lumber yard. Most stores sell pan de bolia [ Bolivia] or pan blanco, [ bland] individual sized french-style [ frenetic] bread. Some of those are divine. If you can find a bakery that uses a good recipe, a brick oven and wood to heat it, you'll be in bread heaven whether your cheese sandwich be grilled, toasted, or slapped together in the park (remember to wash that tomato thoroughly). [BTW when I spell checked this, AEnigma decided to erase it. Is AEnigma related to HAL? Or is she/he/it just demonstrating editorial power?  ]
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