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    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.

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          Count me in.

          The only issue I see with it is that since it’s wrapped in plastic it’s gonna be soft and rubbery instead of crunchy.

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            it’s gonna be soft and rubbery instead of crunchy

            I don’t think croissants are supposed to be rubbery or crunchy, are they? “Flakey” is probably what you want.

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              Yeah flakey would be a better term altthough I’d still put it in the crunchy umbrella. Like flakey means the exterior is kinda crunchy.

              Otoh don’t take me too seriously I like to dunk them in coffee or milk :p

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      Je suis venu faire mon français outré mais oublions OP deux minutes ? Qu’est-ce que c’est que ça ???!

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      Does this come in unsliced? Because cut that suckers down the middle perpendicular to the chopping board and you could make a giant toasted ham & cheese croissant slab

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    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.

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    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.

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      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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        you fixed nothing maybe where you live thats how it works but here in tejas we follow food safety rules as well as donated unsold produce to our local foodbanks and shelters. if that isnt how your community works then i hope you get to experience it firsthand. i have and without those good folks deeds we wouldve starved to death a long time ago.

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          Have worked in grocery stores, it just gets thrown out. The level of food waste in the United States is legitimately stomach churning.

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              Arizona it’s literally considered illegal to dumpster dive anywhere inside of a curb and yet they still also pour bleach on the tossed food at grocery stores to “dissuade” people.

              So you can be arrested if you survive being poisoned.

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            HEB is the only native grocery store in Texas that matters, and they make sure they recover 95% of the food that isn’t fit for human consumption by getting it to farms and such. They also, separately, are involved in food bank and other human wellness activities, including running logistics for hurricane relief (as an example).

            HEB is too good for Texas.

            https://ourtexasourfuture.com/food-recovery/

            https://newsroom.heb.com/disaster-relief/

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            In France it is illegal to throw food out. It has to go to the homeless or those stores will get fined.

            You do know most people don’t live in the US, right?

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              You can safely assume American when you see English and monstrous business behaviors. Aside from that I think the US makes up most of Lemmy traffic anyhow.

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          In the capitalists west, there are only small grassroots projects doing this. Most volume of that stuff goes straight in padlocked trash when best before is met

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    I’m just laughing at “bread” and “proof” but I know they didn’t intend on the pun.

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    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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      Yeah a d by the time you are spending that kind of money on bread, either get it from an actual bakery or make it yourself.

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      I used to buy this kind of bread before I started making my own sourdough, but it just doesn’t compare to fresh out of the oven. It’s more or less equivalent to my own bread after a week when I have to start toasting it.

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      Our local chain, Hannaford, has pretty good stuff actually. Their cakes and pastries are good too. Walmart bakery is trash, but it’s Walmart. They do pizza rolls 👌

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    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.

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    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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      The grocery stores have shit bread. It’s also the reason people don’t buy these ones there. Cause if you like good bread you will go to a bakery or make it at home.

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    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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      That cost seems incredibly high, how did you calculate that? Also what are you paying for a loaf of bread? Granted cheese is expensive so depending on how much mozarella you’re factoring in that could play a part, but im still curious about your numbers.

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        Herbs, flour, oil, jalapenoes, cheese, and eggs divide by volume all at retail price.

        Egg is for the wash.

        Good oil and herbs are the largest expense if you buy the cheese in bulk (aged cheeses like mozzerella and parmesian are more mold resistant than other cheeses if kept dry), but you could cheap out with a premade herb blend and some generic “olive” oil.

        We might also just have different opinions on what “family size” means.

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    Most reasonable Americans, and the larger worldwide Culinary Arts groups would prefer to wait a day and get them on sale so we can make fresh croutons; if you ever wonder why there’s a discount rack that’s always near empty in your local bakery, it’s probably someone buying out the day old lot for the afforementioned croutons or something like crostini for some kind of appetizer dish.

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      I was always taught to do this with bread crumbs as well, throw it in the oven to dry it out and smashhhhhh.