What Type of Bread Do You Buy?

[Ruaidhri]

Whole wheat Vienna loaf. YUM.

 

[Miss Chicken]

My favourite bread is soy and linseed but I like most sorts of bread except for white bread and fruit loaf.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I generally buy wholemeal bread.

 

[AstroSmurf]

I am a bread snob. I adore the stuff and tend to be very picky. I love to make my own but I don't have a lot of time these days to do it. So I pick up my bread from the bakery at my local grocery. My favorite type is focaccia. For a sandwich I prefer a simple whole grain loaf. The bakery puts rolled oats and flax seed in the one I buy and it is delicious. It is amazing with swiss cheese.

 

[Shaw]

Generally... if for sandwiches I'll go with whatever is cheapest. But buying bread for the sake of eating bread, I love sourdough. And my wife gets me large hard french rolls from time to time to use as bread bolls for soup.

 

[Daneel]

Generally, I stick with this twelve-grain loaf that seems comparatively healthy. It's not bad-tasting, either, but my taste buds would probably prefer a nice rye or sourdough -- or maybe some pumpernickel, I haven't had that in a while...

 

[Cali]

Warburton's white thick sliced as an everyday bread in our house, plus assorted baguettes/bakery loaves/ridiculously delicious freshly-baked every day rolls from the village shop. And the occasional ciabatta loaf. We go through a LOT of bread in this house, mostly due to my brother.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I usually get Hamburger buns. Or sometimes split wheat.

 

[iguana_tonante]

. . . My husband, on the other hand, is obsessed with bread and I've never quite understood it. If we get a good loaf of bread in, he'll eat it all up with nothing else before I even notice that he's started on it!

Your husband wouldn't happen to be Jewish, Italian or French, by any chance?

A fair question. I'm Italian and we love bread. If I get near a particularly tasty loaf, I will eat it with nothing else but some olive oil and salt.

I buy my bread from the local bakery every day: they have dozens of types of bread. I have a few favorites, and I'll buy whatever I fancy that day, or according to what kind of meal I had planned.

My favourite are toscano, focaccia, biova, michetta, piadina, carasau, casereccio. I usually have some grissini, too. I keep some white bread for making sandwiches and toasts, but I prefer to make my panini with Italian bread rolls.

 

[Rincewiend]

Brown/wheat bread mostly...
Whatever is on sale at the supermarket...
Also buns...

A selection of what Dutch bakers sell:

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[SPOCKED]

I prefer Pepperidge Farms (Italian with sesame seeds) and almost always pick up a bakery loaf of Italian or French bread. Last night I sliced a loaf of Italian in half and made a home made garlic bread

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I like to vary it as much as possible mostly with wholemeal, seeded and multigrain, but occasionally i love a nice Plain breid(bread) with really dark crusts as a treat.......MMMmmMMmmmMMmm.

 

[Shaytan]

If my answer was not obvious : baguette
Sometimes one of those bread with cereals.
The most important thing is FRESH bread. If it's not fresh anymore, no problem, I cook French toasts

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Sourdough
Whole wheat
Baguette

 

[iguana_tonante]

What's with seashells?

Also, I can't eat brown bread. Nasty.

Edit: I was replying to Rincewind's picture. Blame my laziness.

 

[Franklin]

Rye bread for me, please. The more rustic the better. A crusty Italian loaf is good, too. Sourdough is to die for. A supermarket around here makes a rosemary-olive oil bread that's great. Life's too short to eat crappy bread.

What I can't stand is any bread that has no substance to it. The stuff mostly marketed towards kids. Very soft. Very white. Very safe. You know, the kind where you can wad a slice up into a very small ball. That ain't bread in my book.

 

[Saturn0660]

If it were just my wife and I, I would get something like 7grain. However, the young ones won't eat anything BUT white.. So thats what I buy.

 

[John Picard]

I make wheat bread from my bread machine. It's cheaper, tastier, and I know exactly what's in it. When I buy bread, I get sourdough. One nice thing about living so close to San Francisco is that there's a ton of delicious, local sourdough available.

Ooooohhhh, you're cruel on all counts! When my oldest brother drove a semi, he'd bring back Sheep Herder's Bread he picked up in California. He and my mother loved that stuff.

I usually buy some type of wheat bread that is certified organic. I want no HFCS in anything I eat.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I usually get a generic mass-produced Italian bread (like Maiers). It's basically just white bread, but it seems to have a bit more substance to it. I'm not too picky. I'd go for the basic King white bread except it seems to be thinner than paper. I don't like my sandwiches falling apart when I eat them. Every so often, I get Amoroso rolls, which are the best in the world (in my not so humble opinion). But I usually don't bother unless it's a special occasion.

Now if I were using the bread for something besides sandwiches, that's an entirely different story.

 

[KimMH]

Not allowed to have "White" food in the house due to hubs low cal-low cholesterol-low fat diet. That mean no white bread - no white rice - no white potatoes. Gaaaggghh!

I sneak biscuits and pumpernickel bread at work. Toasted with real butter and my mom's strawberry freezer jam its as indulgent as dessert!