[Misc] Britain's bitter bread battle

[Herr Tubthumper]

Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class | Bread | The Guardian

Some complain that pricey sourdough is elitist and pretentious. Others lambast cheap sliced white as unhealthy and unsustainable. How did our most basic foodstuff become a source of conflict and division?

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Which camp are you in?

 

[Bob!]

Other.
Gluten Free due to Gluten intolerance.

 

[Chicken Run]

Artisanal and reassuringly expensive

 

[Official Old Man]

Bake our own to save money. Prior to that it was Aldi 85p brown bread.
To answer the question how much cheaper is it?
A small loaf, about half the standard size, costs roughly 80p to bake.
Yes, I know. Add to that the £135 bread maker.

 

[Is it PotG?]

There will always be mugs ready to spend 5 times as much on any product if the wording on the packet makes it sound exotic and healthy.

 

[Chicken Run]

There will always be mugs ready to spend 5 times as much on any product if the wording on the packet makes it sound exotic and healthy.

What’s not love than a fresh soda bread infused with olives ?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I like a good bread but won't pay the stupid prices of the Artisan loafs. Tiger loaf from Aldi or Sainsburys for WS household.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

There will always be mugs ready to spend 5 times as much on any product if the wording on the packet makes it sound exotic and healthy.

What if it is exotic and healthy?

 

[chickens]

Home baked and healthy of course, with a generous slathering of nuts and seeds….





….to put in the bird feeder. It’ll be cheap sliced white around my “unhappy pig catering bacon” sandwich. And yes that is butter rather than Benecol.

 

[Is it PotG?]

What’s not love than a fresh soda bread infused with olives ?

Grab a jar of olives too.....

 

[Is it PotG?]

What if it is exotic and healthy?

It's bread......

 

[nicko31]

Just got some sour dough starter. Starting this weekend.

Bread in this country is total pants, hard to get decent bread anywhere without spending £££.

Think we just don't have a baking culture....

 

[Chicken Run]

Home baked and healthy of course, with a generous slathering of nuts and seeds….





….to put in the bird feeder. It’ll be cheap sliced white around my “unhappy pig catering bacon” sandwich. And yes that is butter rather than Benecol.

Occasionally of course i will slip to the dark side a pick up a thick slice warbuton white to stuff with streaky bacon, shrooms, hash brown and lashings of the red stuff and of course buttered with lurpack

Edit and a fried egg

 

[chickens]

Occasionally of course i will slip to the dark side a pick up a thick slice warbuton white to stuff with streaky bacon, shrooms, hash brown and lashings of the red stuff and of course buttered with lurpack

Edit and a fried egg

To be fair, I have, on occasion, had sourdough. But I didn’t inhale.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

It depends on the purpose. As something nice to eat with just butter or maybe a nice M&S Chicken Rillette then I am happy to spend more on a nice fancy loaf with good flavour and texture.

For some basic toast and marmite as breakfast or to use for a classic bacon sarnie then Hovis White Thick Sliced is just the thing.

 

[Chicken Run]

Ot but whilst on the subject of breakfast in bread, this looks incredible and i fear whilst i will try and replicate this at the weekend mine won’t look like this

 

[Badger]

If we're talking about sourdough, I'll just link to this thread https://www.northstandchat.com/threads/how-many-poos-do-you-do-each-day.407076/

 

[jackanada]

Other. Because both are great.
Though your cheap Chorleywood bread process bread can be an issue for some people. My missus was about to go gluten free when we met having correlated the peaks in a somewhat chronic stomach pain to bread. I suggested just trying better bread and bingo problem solved.
She might be a couple of stone lighter if I hadn't though.

 

[pasty]

Both. Cheap mass produced white sliced for a hungover bacon sarnie

Nice fresh bread from the chap in Horsham market on a Saturday.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Get up Ravens. They will sort you out with a decent priced, healthy loaf for less than 3 quid.