Grocery Shopping

[beige_alert]

I have below the cut a photo of some bread I purchased recently. I guess I'm just going to have to admit to being a sucker for anything with German printed on the packaging. Which means I'm in trouble next time I visit Germany, I guess.





"Produkt aus Kanada." It's German in a Toronto sort of way.

Comments

[aryana-filker.livejournal.com]

:) Looks like a kind of bread I like very much. The writing says it is called "Abbey Bread", and it's made with rye and spring water.

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I've seen that exact bread or something very similar in German supermarktes. Google found that this is also sold in France, so I'm guessing that it's a re-branding of a German or German style bread, sold wherever Germans yearn for what they call "real" bread ("and not those striky, squishy hamburger rolls") :-)

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

One of the things I noticed in Germany (ok, several of the things I noticed in Germany!) was bread ...

It's quite easy to get a pack like this, which appears to be part of a loaf (just about unheard of in the UK)

Also what we in the UK would call a "Sandwich" loaf (sort of Wonderbread style), the Germans appeared to call "Toast" (or bread for toasting).

They also have a larger selection of rye, pumperknickel etc. interesting breads (in the UK, half of the interesting breads seem to come from Poland or Germany, or claim to have been based on recipes from there).

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

If you can squeeze it down to less than 50% of it's original size, chances are it isn't :-)

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

It depends on where you shop, but it is pretty easy to find all sorts of good breads in the US these days. Not necessarily imported from Canada and with a German labeling, but fresh local stuff, too. Of course, you can also get the sponge-like stuff.

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

I'm used to Canadian packaging being bilingual, but usually it's English and French, not English and German :)

[meritmaat.livejournal.com]

*grin*
a lot of German filkers will help you to get out of the trouble you will find yourself in, I am certain!

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see it now. "Let's take Beige to the chocolate shop!"

[djbp.livejournal.com]

More likely the local bakery/cafe for breakfast