Comment on She broke it so she could baguette properly....

• naun@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In a regular bakery, the bread is behind the counter, out of reach of the patrons, correct? In a grocery store, it’s all on the shelf, where anyone can touch it. This is much more sanitary. I wouldn’t buy any that weren’t wrapped up.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, most grocery stores in Europe have bread in a specific bread container that had a lid on it. You open the lid, take out a baguette and close the lid falls down again. They compartments inside the container get regularly refilled from the back where they are baked. I’ve seen this setup even in cheapo-chains like Aldi and Lidl.

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    • naun@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s great, but what do you put the bread into? A plastic bag, or do people just carry them around bare? What happens if someone drops it and decides they want another, or just changes their mind about buying one? In North America, they’ll probably just put it back in the bin. Now the next person gets floor bread or, at least, something that someone else has been carrying around until they changed their mind.

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      • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        All bigger chains I have visited seem to have paper like bags for bread stuff. Plastic bags also exist, but those are usually in other grocery sections.

        In theory you could pack it in your own container if you wish, do not think anyone would have issues with that, but I have never seen anyone doing that.

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  • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In paper. So we all don’t die

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    • naun@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Paper bags have to be left open to let the moisture vent and allow the bread to crisp. That doesn’t work on the grocery store floor. We tried it. Our first bags were paper.

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      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ??? The rest of the world uses paper bags for almost everything, you can’t convince me that in usa you have to use non decomposable dead dinosaur bags because you have to throw the bread on floors??

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• pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can confirm. At least now they’re asking for some things, instead of doing it automatically.

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