I hate it when I lose any kind of food products, whether they are forgotten in the back of the fridge, hidden beneath a couple new rolls of parchment paper in the bread drawer or pushed to the back of the cabinet behind several boxes of cereal. In the best-case scenario, they are old and stale when I find them and, in the worst, they are truly "icky." Alanna, from A Veggie Venture experienced neither situation when she came upon a 10-month old loaf of Wonder Bread that had been long since lost in the depths of her bread drawer. It didn't have a speck of mold on it and smelled fine, with no indication that it might be past its prime. Based on this unintentional experiment, Alanna concluded that Wonder Bread "is truly-truly dead and lifeless cardboard."
I wasn't buying Wonder Bread before and I doubt I'll be changing my shopping habits any time soon. Unless, of course, I'm shopping to replenish my emergency disaster kit and want foods with a really long shelf lift.
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10-16-2006 @ 6:32PM
Harlan said...
And of course in the DVD edition of Supersize Me, in the Special Features, they get various foods from McDonalds and a corner deli and put them in glass jars until they become seriously "icky". Everything rots, except for the McDonalds french fries which look exactly identical 3 months later as they did whey they were still hot from the fryer!
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10-16-2006 @ 6:39PM
Kate said...
There is a brand of grocery store bread out here in California ... I think it's called "Bakery Hearth" or "Baker's Hearth" or something like that. Brown wrapper. Honey Wheat and Honey White. It is as soft as a new pillow, but that stuff never got stale, never got hard, and never grew a speck of mold no matter how long I had it. That was a little "French Fry Scary [ala Supersize Me]" for me, as well.
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10-16-2006 @ 6:44PM
Rob Brooks-Bilson said...
I've had plenty of wonder bread go moldy after just a week or two. I have seen potato rolls three months later that were the same as the day I bought them, though.
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10-17-2006 @ 9:01AM
Shad Genki said...
...Or, ya know, post-apocalypse.
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10-17-2006 @ 9:15AM
Alexi V said...
Call me crazy, but I still love Wonder Bread when used in grilled cheese sandwiches.
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10-17-2006 @ 3:50PM
Bob Sassone said...
I'm not a big fan of Wonder Bread. I used to be when I was a kid (and I loved making Easter eggs with the bag!), but I don't eat it now. And it's terrible for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
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10-17-2006 @ 4:46PM
MJ said...
The breads now a days have so many things in it to stay fresh they almost never mold before using, but they will start smelling awful.i also noticed that the whole wheat breads and most of them that are good for you wont last a week!Most white breads dont even taste like bread,I buy merita it is the best white bread!
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10-17-2006 @ 8:52PM
Adriane said...
In my house we have SUCH a problem keeping bread from going moldy (save for sticking it in the fridge...) But I have found more regular grocery store pre-sliced breads can sometimes keep for a creepily long time. I think there is one brand called Baker's Inn or something that I had kicking around for nearly 3 weeks with no mold....that's just wrong.
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10-25-2006 @ 11:16AM
donna said...
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THESE PEOPLE PURCHASED THEIR WONDER BREAD BUT ITS MOLDY BEFORE THE EXPIRATION DATE THATS WHY ITS SO TERRIBLE. THE BEST BREAD OUT THERE IS MARTIN'S POTATO BREAD IT DOESNT LAST THAT LONG IN MY HOUSE TO EVEN GO MOLDY.
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10-25-2006 @ 11:53AM
amanda said...
could it have something to do with the atmosphere in the house? my house is very dry (radiator heat) in the winter, but for some reason, if i don't keep the bread in the fridge it gets moldy very quickly. it's pretty sunny in my kitchen, and maybe that's what makes the bread in plastic bags all sweaty (ick!), so that could contribute to the mold, but the bread i get from the local pizzeria (which is a bleached white baguette wrapped in foil) just dries out and turns into a rock. . i've never bought wonder bread, so i don't know how that would turn out.
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