Bread

I want to talk to you about bread an everyday necessity that is used to make sandwiches, toast and puddings to name a few.  Today at work it was my turn to shop Ambient Four, which in Sainsbury’s supermarket speak, is the bread and bakery department.  We have to shop this department once a week although I end up doing more than that.  It has to be the easiest department to shop and it comes with the added bonus of being around when the freshly baked bread comes out from the bakery.  The smell is just drop dead gorgeous, the downside is it makes you so hungry.

Anyway over time I have become familiar with the products we sell and one of the things that has surprised me is the wide range of bread sold.  So you have your white, wholemeal, granary and multi seeded and generally in two sizes, 400 or 800 grams.  But it does not stop there, O no that is just the tip of the iceberg.  You then have Hovis, Kingsmill, Warburtons, Weight Watchers and Sainsbury’s own to name but a few.  We then have the cut, think, medium, with or without crusts or non-sliced and then add to that bread for toasting, sandwiches, basic and taste the difference ranges.  But wait lets not forget the Giraffe (Tiger), Farmhouse, Hand Crafted, Spit Tin, Kalamta Olive, Batch, Sunflower, Bloomer, Sandwich, Country Loaf, Round Pain De Campagne, Cob, Sourdough Boule and a new one on my Well Fired.

I could go on as there is more and you can get the above in most combinations of white, seeded, wholemeal and granary too.  I forgot the baguettes, pitta and bagels too and the crustless, 50/50 and organic.  I get most of them to a point but the one that is beating me is the no crust variety, why?  How difficult is it to cut the crusts off a normal loaf, after all you could feed the birds with the crusts.  Eeeeekkkkk, almost forgot the cut and uncut options too.

It is actually a good laugh shopping the bread section which at the moment also involves lots of Easter Eggs and don’t start me on the themes and variety of those!

It has been a good day today, had a lot of laughs at work and for once we did not finish at silly O clock.  That gave me a chance to catch up on my beauty sleep, well start to catch up.  

I'm off to continue the adventure of Arthur Dent who as been reduced from deep space thanks to a new method of space travel and an improbability factor that just happens to be the same as a telephone number in Islington.

The iPod is on charge ready for the usual Sunday 5 hours of shopping and bopping.

Well that is it for today, until next time take care.

Si x