Anonymous wrote:If I'm spending say $40 at a bakery, I'd rather leave with 1/2 as many fresh items than 2x as many sorta stale items.

Blah, blah, blah
you do you

If I'm spending say $40 at a bakery, I'd rather leave with 1/2 as many fresh items than 2x as many sorta stale items.

We always buy the 50% off bagels at Safeway. I freeze them the day we buy them, and they taste exactly the same as the full price ones.

Sometimes I'll buy the day-old bread if I'm making stuffing or bread pudding. These recipes call for stale bread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The same people who buy second hand bras and sneakers at the thrift store

High School kids love thrift store.

So do I! I buy bras and shoes there for the same reason I buy day old bread -- to stick to my budget.

Anonymous wrote:All those packaged bread in plastic bags are over a few days old. They may even be 3 weeks old!

+1. That also goes for many pastries at the grocery store.

My favorite bakery puts their current items on sale at half-price at the end of the day. Seems silly not to take advantage!

All those packaged bread in plastic bags are over a few days old. They may even be 3 weeks old!

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Anonymous wrote:Is it that hard to imagine being poor, op?

Poor people don't live in affluent neighborhoods and shop at expensive bakeries.

Actually, PP, some do. They weren’t “poor” when they moved into their neighborhoods, but gentrification, rising taxes, up-scaling stores and prices do have an impact, especially in areas like DC.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to the hostess store that was full of the older bread products - I loved it because we would be able to get bread and also one pack of two hostess cupcakes. It was a great weekly treat. Never occurred to me until now that people would judge my parents for it.

My Mom used to take me to the Hostess Bakery store in DC for a treat when I was a kid. I’d get a box of HoHos for lunches and a pack of snowballs to eat that day. And now I’m having serious cravings for a frozen HoHo! Thanks for reminding me of those small joys PP!


When I lived in Fells Point, it was nice to smell the fragrance from the bakery on cinnamon bread day. There was an outlet store near the bakery that was definitely a treat for many of my neighbors. I think that’s where I got my first Bergers cookies.

We had a Pepperidge Farm outlet store near us growing up. It was a great place to get the cookies, etc.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to the hostess store that was full of the older bread products - I loved it because we would be able to get bread and also one pack of two hostess cupcakes. It was a great weekly treat. Never occurred to me until now that people would judge my parents for it.

+1 We went there, straight to the corner where their super discounts were, and bought bread/english muffins. Then it went in the freezer and that was our bread for the month or 6 weeks. I knew we were poor but this day-old bread thing is not one of the things I was ashamed of; we weren't eating bakery fresh bread otherwise, just Wonder from Albertson's.