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Rarely have bread as an accompaniment at home...the exception would be that if I make a homemade soup, my husband will sometimes bake up a rustic loaf to go with it (I'm not much for baking).
My grandmother (1917-2007) served bread and butter, typically just plain loaf bread, but rolls at holidays, with every non-breakfast meal. I see it, consequently, as rather old school.
Dining out, I'll usually have bread if it's provided, but I do a lot of things when dining out that I don't regularly do at home, such as starters and dessert.
Growing up bread was a daily staple with dinner. Now, except for holidays, maybe company and when we go out we never have bread with dinner. On, I take that back, when we have soup we always have some type of chewy bread. We also have sandwiches sometimes. Normally we do have a carb but it isn't bread.
Someone made an impression on me at an early age...well 2 people....
When I was in 6th grade, my sister's boyfriend said one sentence,
"You can't lose weight and eat bread." Stuck with me. His family had weight issues.
In 11th grade my Italian English teacher said "Bread
(we were at an Italian restaurant with a group) was for peasants to fill up on."
From that moment on...I may have one bite of bread served at a restaurant.
(I guess, I'm very impressionable!)
My obese friends (not fat, obese) always grab it right away, I have noticed...
same with flour tortillas...I give them mine.
I love an old European rye from a French bakery made superbly, I'm half Czeck...
but, rarely...I never buy a loaf...
unless I give more than half to a friend.
My mother could have had a whole loaf with butter in 2 days.
I mailed then to her they were so like 'the old country'.
Someone made an impression on me at an early age...well 2 people....
When I was in 6th grade, my sister's boyfriend said one sentence,
"You can't lose weight and eat bread." Stuck with me. His family had weight issues.
In 11th grade my Italian English teacher said "Bread
(we were at an Italian restaurant with a group) was for peasants to fill up on."
From that moment on...I may have one bite of bread served at a restaurant.
(I guess, I'm very impressionable!)
My obese friends (not fat, obese) always grab it right away, I have noticed...
same with flour tortillas...I give them mine.
I love an old European rye from a French bakery made superbly, I'm half Czeck...
but, rarely...I never buy a loaf...
unless I give more than half to a friend.
My mother could have had a whole loaf with butter in 2 days.
I mailed then to her they were so like 'the old country'.
yep, it sounds like you are or were pretty impressionable. On the other hand, were you ever told: bread is the staff of life?"
Home made yeasty fresh bread....I am eating all I can stuff into me. With butter. Lots of butter.
Maybe that's once or twice a year. The rest of the time, I see regular bread as a filler or a carrier for sandwich stuffings and I avoid it consistently. My parents never served bread at meals but my grandparents would not consider a meal without bread.
I think the store bought stuff is a waste and it has few redeeming qualities. Home made is a completely different story!
so untrue, ALL Italian restaurants in Australia (which are one generation away, if that) serve bread with Every Meal.
Continental bread....yum....
We get so many different types of bread down here. We also get that heavy European bread in supermarkets, Italian style breads, Greek, Indian, etc etc. I never eat the white square slice on the table I grew up with, any more. It's Barely Bread at all.
I had a bread maker too when my kids were little, DELICIOUS.
Same in the US. Even the smallest grocery stores generally have a wide variety of international & artisanal breads. I really started noticing that around ten years ago or so. You used to have to go to the larger, upscale stores to see that.
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