But pastrami sandwiches still go on Jewish rye, of course.

[amanuensis1]

I don't do new years' resolutions, but I think I'm making one this year: I'm going to eat as much white bread as I please. I love white bread, and white rolls, and naan, and pita chips, and pizza, and Crazy Bread and all of its ilk, and those thick sweet doughy rolls you only get at Chinese restaurants, and the next time the bread basket full of hot butter-glazed yeast rolls comes my way at the restaurant, my reaction is not going to be, "Whoops, don't want to fill up on just bread, now," instead I'll say, "Bread! Doggie-bag my main course, my good man, I'll just dive in face-first."

Comments

[inspiredlife.livejournal.com]

This is pretty much the best new year's resolution ever. I could actually keep this one!!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

If ever a day came when I couldn't eat flour, as happens to a lot of people, I would be cursing up a blue streak for every roll I ever denied myself out of "oh, I shouldn't, I'll get too full for the rest of dinner" logic. Bring on the rolls!

[gmth.livejournal.com]

OMG, I love white bread... I can't eat it as much as I'd like to anymore, and it's SO HAAAAAAAAARD to keep away from it.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It's villainized so much, isn't it? I dunno, I eat white bread and feel satisfaction that I don't feel with grainy brown breads.

[pauraque]

I like white bread too, mostly because I wasn't allowed to have it as a kid. If my mom really wanted me to grow up to be an adult who ate whole wheat bread, she should have forced Wonder Bread down my throat until I was sick of it. :P

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

That's the way to do it, yeah! I remember my mom refused to buy baloney or American cheese because she thought that was something uncouth, and the day I came home from a friend's house saying, "Mom, I had this really great sandwich, it was baloney with American cheese, can we get some of that?" she despaired.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

White bread is the best bread! (OMG bread racist!) I'm supposed to avoid it, but no other bread is anywhere near as yummy.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

There's probably some reason we're keyed to like it. Sweetness, perhaps?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think so. It becomes sugar the fastest of all breads (which is why I'm supposed to avoid it), so I guess our bodies know that and want it.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

There are (in my opinion) two tests of an accomplished baker: their ability to make an excellent plain white bread--no fillings, flavors, or frills--and their ability to make an edible whole wheat breadd. I do well at the first and cheat at the second by using half white/half wheat flour.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Baking is HARD. I recently had a discussion about how anything involving flour is tricky. How to blend it, how to knead it, how not to get it all over the floor... I pretty much have no patience for anything involving a rising time. But I'd love to nom your bread!

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Bread is easy; cake is hard. Anything with baking soda/powder is hard, while yeast is so forgiving.

At university, I lived off campus after my first two years, so our house became the gathering spot on Sunday afternoon/evening for many of our friends in the dorm. I would make plain white bread, the very simplest flour/yeast/salt/water fairly frequently as a snack because it was cheap and easy and impressed people. I never bothered putting in eggs or oil or anything else because it was always eaten hot out of the oven (egg and oil keep bread from going stale quite so quickly). A dollar's forth of flour and butter fed twelve to fifteen people no problem.

[crescent-moony.livejournal.com]

"Bread! Doggie-bag my main course, my good man, I'll just dive in face-first." <-- We need to go out to eat together, now, because I need to see this play out IRL. X3

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Just tie my hair back and AWAY I GO. :D

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

BREAD. (Now I want butter-glazed yeast rolls like crazy and it's all your fault.)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Logan's Roadhouse! Got one where you live? People show up there just for the rolls.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

omg I am the BIGGEST bread h0r. :D Yay white bread! I toast the new year's bread-ness with you.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Toast! Gettit? TOAST! Ah ha ha.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah! :D I cannot deny the bread. (Granted, I ♥ wheat bread, too; but I like everything except store-type sliced white bread.)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I have been known to buy that kind of bread for very specific uses--Wonder bread/bologna/American cheese/mayo sandwich, eaten in one squishy handful--but that's more of a novelty than actual bread consumption, yes.