wonderbread

My mother never made bread and would not buy wonder bread because it was too expensive. I don't think I ever had it til I was a grown up and that was all there was on a convenience store shelf.

It tasted like white bread to me.

I bought Wonder bread today because TW has some issue with some brand of bread that comes in a yellow wrapper. And she won't eat the green bagged publix bread. Since I can't ever remember which yellow bagged brand to buy - the new default is Wonder bread.

Who knew bread choosing was so complicated?

The fact that it's still gleaming white, despite the claims that it's made with whole grains, means that the bleach the SHIT out of it and chemically, it's probably not much better than the 'original' loaf.

Wonder, indeed.

This whole time I've been sitting over here thinking I was the only kid that squished her bread into little balls and then ate it. MY SOUL SISTAH.

There was never any Wonder Bread in my house, either. My mother was a sucker for fresh, crusty loaves of Italian bread and it's all we had at home. I used to pull out these sandwiches on like, foot-high bread in the lunchroom and look at all the other kids eating their skinny Wonder Bread sandwiches. My mom called that kind of bread "plastic bread" and the only time we ever had it in the house was to make turkey stuffing.

My mom wouldn't buy Wonder Bread either. Or Pop-Tarts. That's the great thing about growing up - being able to buy that crap if we want to. I LOVE dough balls. At least now you can buy the really good stuff from the bakery and get it fresh enough to make good for you dough balls.

And Pop-Tarts, I buy them once every couple of years and thumb my nose at my mom's healthy principles.

To pimp my mom: she made fresh bread every week and the best part about a big gap between me and my four older siblings is that while they were all in school and I was home with mom, I always got the first slice, fresh from the oven with her home-made jam. My mom could kick your moms' asses.

Wow. It sucks growing up in the US apparently. I NEVER got freshly baked bread. EVER.

I DID have a Wonderbread factory right next to a shopping mall that we used to visit a lot as kiddos. The smell alone would make me drool.

Also- an interesting side note... I am a true-blue carb and bread and pastry lover... both times I was pregnant in life the smell of any kind of baked goods would instantly make me vomit. That was basically how I knew I was pregnant with my second son... How strange is that one?

I had never had white bread until I was an adult...how sad is that? Or sugar cereal! I thought my mom was the meanest ever but you know what? I do the same thing to my kids. It's Dempster's Whole Grains and Cheerios for them. I'm such a bitch.

Hey! My mom could totally kick YOUR mom's ass!

Try Country Harvest Bread rather than Dempsters Whole Grains. It tastes much better and contains Omega 3

I am so sorry that you did not have margarine or peanut butter to go with your fresh loaf!

Of course, your mother was right about the inferiority of Wonder Bread. Mothers are always right about things like that.