Bread sizes to change

I though this was quite weird for a leading article, but anyway, for as long as i've been alive, bread has allways been 'loaf' sized, and it never seemed to be an issue. Trust the EU to solve a problem that didn't exist.

 

Good, maybe now they will make a decent sized bread that still fits in my toaster I never even realised there was this kind of ruling over food - seems a little odd really, who gains from it ? :S

 

Well, I can see both sides of this coin really. I mean, on the one hand this is actually a case of the EU getting rid of a stupid rule, not creating it - and clearly there are many people who would rather have different shapes loaves.

OTOH, you just know that supermarkets are going to use the resulting confusion to downsize the average loaf and charge just as much for it, while introducing some kick ass super duper feature loaded ultra loaf that's slightly bigger than the old one but costs 150% of the old ones cost.

 

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What the dead piggy said.

 

Why is it whenever I see the title of this thread on the front page I read it as "Breast sizes to change" and immediantly click it.

 

Personal aspirations?

*runs*

 

There are laws going back centuries that bread has to weigh a certain amount, so thieving bakers couldn't give you short measure. "...in 1298 heavy fines were inflicted on bakers for selling short weight bread. There are the most stringent regulations about the weight of bread today."

So really the EC has just recognised that pre-packaged bread isn't real food and doesn't warrant any protection - something apparent to anyone of even modest intelligence.

 

Now cpemma, pre-packaged bread is one of the most useful things you can buy these days - I can buy a foil-sealed loaf that's still edible after a week because of this, rather than having to buy a new one every day.

 

Tbh any bread that lasts an entire week without getting stale is mank. Breads survivabilty seems to have a direct inverse correleation with how good it tastes. The longer it lasts, the crappier it tastes.

 

The foil sealed stuff that lasts a week tastes like crap :/ I used to buy it all the time as a student for this very reason. Now I just buy baps.

/end another breast association.

 

I preffer buns myself bindi.

 

I buy all my bread from the local bakery anyway, I can buy a "small tin" that lasts me about 2-3 days, just about the same time it takes me to use up my milk. guess where I buy that from

 

Someone who owns a cow/goat?

Why don't supermarkets do more half-loafs?

 

I won't try and pass it off as real bread, but it's better than no bread, and it's a lot cheaper than buying 2/3 sets of baps a week. *snicker*

 

So Bread Loaves will get smaller and cost the same... yay

 

Why do Supermarket half loafs cost 90% the price of a full loaf....

I'd buy them otherwise but it just seams like a waste of time as I know full well if I did buy them I'd suddenly develop a toast fetish and devorior it in a day and then kick myself for not spending the extra 10p on a big loaf. it's the sma ewith milk, if I buy 4 pints it'll sit unopened in the fridage for a week or so but if I buy one pint it'll be gone in a day :S

but I do think that over the not too distant futre bread loafs (or is it loaves?) will get progressivly smaller yet supprisingly not change in price, the same way packets of crisps did 10 years ago...

 

Bindi, yeah,

at least I hope its a cow or a goat....

 

Wow, bindi, you really are a 16 year old at heart aren't you!

Didn't realise breasts, sorry, i meant bread could raise such a heavy discusion.

 

It ain't just 16 year olds that like boobies.

 

Bread will start misteriously shrinking every year but growing in price... just like our favourite chocolate bars

I wonder how much time and money has been sent on this