Consumerist
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This Grocery Store Bakery Price War Seems To Be Heating Up
We don't quite know what to say about this Mid-Atlantic regional grocery store bakery price war. It is intense, baby. More » -
unacceptable food
Loaf Of Bread Comes With Baked-In Rodent Goodness
Back in 2007, a man in Northern Ireland opened up a loaf of bread and found a whole, mercifully dead, rat. (The BBC is reporting that it's a mouse, but it's either a giant mutant mouse or a rat.) A judge heard the case this week, and fined the bakery £1,000 ($1,653) "plus costs." More » -
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God Sells Bread
There's now a whole line of bread products inspired by Ezekiel 4:9" "Take also unto thee Wheat, and Barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and Spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it..." They say the result is something filled with lots of nice proteins and efficient amino acids. Hooray for God bread! It's like God, in your mouth!
Ezekiel 4:9® Organic Sprouted Whole Grain Products [Food For Life Baking Co] (Thanks to Zakarth!)
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unacceptable food
Sorry About The Rocks In Your Raisin Bread. Here's $5.
We've never really stopped to wonder what sort of compensation we would require if we found small rocks in our raisin bread, but we're pretty sure that it's more than $5. Maybe we're being unrealistic, because when Michael Snyder found rocks in the raisin bread he bought from a bakery in Somerville, Massachusetts, he asked for 5 loaves of bread in compensation and settled for $5 instead. More » -
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Settlement: Sara Lee Agrees To Change Misleading "Whole Grain" Packaging
Back in December the Center for Science in the Public Interest became annoyed with Sara Lee for allegedly misleading consumers about the amount of "whole grain" in their breads. The organization announced its intention to sue Sara Lee over its "Soft & Smooth Made with Whole Grain White Bread," which claims to combine "all the taste and texture of white bread with the goodness of whole grain," when actually "there is more water in this product than whole grain," according to the CSPI. More » -
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Aunt Millie's Searing Sword Of Schmutz Is Really Just "Food Grade Oil"
Christina sent us an update on her schmutzy bread loaf. According to Aunt Millie's, the mystery gunk adorning the Seeded Italian Bread is "food grade oil." Mmmmm!
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unacceptable food
Searing Sword Of Schmutz Taints Aunt Millie's Bread Loaf
UPDATE: Aunt Millie's Searing Sword Of Schmutz Is Really Just "Food Grade Oil"
Reader Christina wants to know why there's black schmutz all over her Aunt Mille's homestyle seeded Italian bread. More »
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ouch
Sara Lee Bread Recalled, Full Of Small Pieces Of Metal
Several loaves of bread manufactured by Sara Lee are being recalled because they are potentially full of small pieces of metal. More » -
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diy
How To Bake Your Own Bread
Making bread is fun, and kneading dough burns calories. Did you know that when people used to make their own bread everyone had sexy triceps? Even grandmothers had arms that looked good in a tank top. True story. More » -
blind taste tests
Brownberry Backlash Results In Return To Original Recipe
Sales were falling, and the makers of Brownberry's Natural Wheat bread didn't know what was wrong. Blind taste tests were held and the results were in. Brownberry was "too firm and too bitter." So they changed it. More » -
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Longer Lasting Supermarket Bread: Ask For The Frozen Loaves
Want your bread to last longer? More »
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