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[–] [email protected] 244 points 1 month ago (6 children)

In all my years I've never walked into a friends home and been offered a baguette or a fresh slice of focaccia.

Well then your friends suck

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Hey, man! Glad you could make it! Can I get you anything? Some chips, some pretzels, an entire baguette, maybe some iced tea or something?"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

Goat cheese and baguette is top tier snack. Y'all don't know how to live

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you can cut them you know?

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[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

"Shit, man, shit shit shit."

"Steve man. Calm the fuck down. What's wrong?"

"It's a customer, man."

"Please tell me they didn't take an orange from the bottom of the stack again."

"No, no. Worse. So much worse. He's buying the boule."

"Ha. You had me worried for a minute. Nobody buys the boule. You misheard."

"No, man, I'm telling you. He asked where it was. I made him repeat the question. He said again he wanted the 'sourdough boule.' He's got it in his cart now."

"...You're serious."

"Yes, man. He's about to fucking buy the boule."

"Shit, man. What are we going to do?"

"I don't know. I- I don't know. This has never happened before."

"We have to alert them."

"Them?"

"You know, them."

"Wh- you mean the simulation people?"

"You got a better idea?"

"Yeah, maybe drinking bleach. Not to mention we have no way to con-"

"H-hello? Um... Sim- simulation people? Um-"

"What the fuck are you doing, Ted? You fucking dipshi-"

"Yes?"

"..."

"..."

"Steve... you... you heard that, ri-"

"I don't have all day. What is it?"

"Shit, um."

"Yes sir, um, Mister Simulator sir, I-"

"Missus."

"Oh, um, sorry, the voice is just kindof... tinny an-"

"Look, we've got a problem. It's one of the... simulated."

"Mmm hmm?"

"He's on his way to the checkout now."

"And?"

"He's buying the boule."

"Mmm. Right. Thank you for alerting me. This anomaly will be dealt with."

"Oh. Um. O...kay. Um. Thank yo-"

"Wait, how exactly will it be deal-"

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This reads like They're Made Out of Meat. It's brilliant.

[–] perspectiveshifting 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thanks for the recommendation! Here's the short story mentioned if anyone else wants a read: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

That was a fun read! Thanks for that

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

This is WBRC's 9 o'clock news, I'm Ned Albertson.

Panic ensued today at a local supermarket, as a man got vaporised in the produce aisle. Warning, the following images are not for the faint of heart. Evan Kelp is reporting live from the scene.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago (2 children)

idk man, seems like an american problem to me.

[–] babybus 40 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Are you watching their politics? This can't be real, the writers are all over the top. The whole country is a simulation.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I often buy these. But, I always take care noone sees me buying them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

This is the way. Don't let OP know about us.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I buy those baguettes and it would be lucky to make it home so I always buy two.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So you think you've found the hole of simulation and don't even try to buy some to see if it is really a decoration? WTF bro

[–] brrt 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Omfg is this a marketing stunt by the baked goods industry to sell more bread?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Many will walk up to edge, but few have the courage to see if they can fly.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.

You take the normal bread – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

You take the fancy bread – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth – nothing more.”

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[–] felykiosa 54 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I m French and in France we buy EVERY bread in a bakery .for real after 5pm you have basically nothing .

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

The French sure do love their

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sauf le pain aux raisins parce que c'est une abomination

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

you're telling me that this guy saw something that he didn't understand, but said piqued his curiosity, and instead of trying it to see what it's like he goes straight to schizo posting about it on the Internet?

this is why trump is winning.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

/b/ - Random

The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.

Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Ok but if you see sliced croissant loaf, fucking buy that shit, buy two, immediately. I don't even like to shop any more at places where they don't sell it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

disgusted French look of superiority

jkjk it looks like something terrible in a good way.

[–] logos 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Cause it's probably 3/4 butter.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the bread is real. what you arent seeing is the removal of the unsold products that are almost certainly being donated to homeless shelters and hog farmers, then replaced with fresh loaves the next day. there are fda rules in place to prevent leaving such products out more than a couple days.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (14 children)

are almost ~~certainly being donated to homeless shelters~~ being thrown away and people who are taking some are persecuted... and hog farmers

fixed that for you :)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Sometimes I buy the bread lol. The bread just gets made into other things if nobody buys it. Sliced after the first day, made into croutons the day after or a number of other bread goodness like garlic bread or used to make those pre-packed subs, etc. Or it's just tossed cause bread is cheap and making at the scale they make it makes it even cheaper.

By the way, if you have even a passing interest I recommend baking your own bread, unless you want sourdough and you don't want to spend that effort cause sourdough is next level effort. But a basic white bread is extremely easy and tastes so good fresh and lasts for soooo much longer than the store made breads.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I buy the bread. I offer it to friends. TIL I'm an NPC

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't offer it to my friends, but only because I eat it all before they get near me.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

To be fair, the quality of the bread in these mass produced "artisan bakery" sections can be trash tier, like sometimes it's wonder bread level but even more dry. Idk why they decide to do it. Maybe it was fresh at one point but these displays can get left out all week.

Source: an NPC who sometimes buys this crap to try it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

The bread is a decoration indeed. It's there for the same reason the flowers are out the front of the supermarket, it makes the store look more welcoming and less like a warehouse that is engineered to siphon money from your wallet.

Nobody buys that shit. We just wait for them to yeet it in the dumptster out back, then we cut the chain and take it home.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm just laughing at "bread" and "proof" but I know they didn't intend on the pun.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

i'll buy some sourdough or a baguette. usually when reduced to clear.

Also when i was on holiday in the US; sourdough bread was all i could eat. seriously guys, your sandwich bread fucking SUCKS!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Buy the boule coward!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Idk about America, but here the fresh bread is fucking gone by 3 hours before closing. Well, except for the dark bread, there's always a little of that left.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i actually used to work in a grocery store in the US, unloading bread from the bread factory trucks and throwing out old bread. I'd usually have it done by 7 in the morning and very nearly I'd be throwing out exactly as much expired bread as i was putting on the shelf. at no point would a bread sell out.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I make my own these days and regularly offer them to guests but I used to buy the stores artisan breads for lunch while working construction when I was young.

The cost to create of a family size loaf of jalapeno and mozzerella stuffed herb focaccia is about $4.87, lower if you cheap out on oil, so theres tons of room for markup even if the store ends up throwing most of it out.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Also, my friends and acquaintances are a perfectly representative sample of the population

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you gotta feel sorry for someone so out of touch with bread. mmMmmmm sourdough boule

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why every single loaf is in plastic? Where is this?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

middle america 🌈

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Is this the most American post I've ever seen?

Maybe?

A while ago I made cheeseburgers for a family gathering. My dad bought a loaf of bread on the side, and I quote, "just in case".

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