I blame whole wheat

[dhermann1]

I almost hesitate to say this, but if I were presented with a donutburger, I'd very likely scarf the dang thing and beg for seven or eight more. 'Spesh'ly with the bacon and the no lettuce or tomata or nothin'.

Yeah, and wash it down with a root beer float!
What's for dessert?!

 

[The Wingnut]

"...ugh. I can actually HEAR you getting fatter."

 

[Diamondback]

It's a new record - a military post in a Wonder Bread thread.

What, my comment about that thing Fletch calls a "burger"?

"...ugh. I can actually HEAR you getting fatter."

lol

 

[Lady Day]

Here's an indication of the present age, and an example of a non vintage thing I do: My current equivalent for PBJ consists of any fancy schmancy heavy duty multi grain bread, with almond butter (peanut butter gives me a tummy ache, sadly!) and Chiver's Ginger Preserves. NOOOOOO Wonder Bread!
Does that make me a bad person? That that automatically disqualify me from the lounge???

mmmm, me too
'cept instead of preserves, I use honey.

Yum.

LD

*if youre axed, then so is I

 

[nulty]

Wonder bread was great for PBJ..you could trough the PB on nice and thick...

We still have it in the east I think.....

When we were kids my brother and I would roll it up, soak it then unload bread bombs at each other.......and they hurt!

Until Ma would walk in......

I think when they moved out of that house years later when cleaning she found one petrified up inside a cupboard...

 

[LizzieMaine]

From the Vintage Breadbox thread

You'd be amazed at the shelf life the stuff has.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

When I was about six I used to take a slice of Wonderbread, eat the crust, then mold the remaining fluff into a dough ball and then eat it. Mmmmm

lol Yeah, me too. Was actually more like silly putty than bread.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Wasn't there a big flap about how exactly Wonder Bread,..."Helps build strong bodies 12 ways",...?

 

[PrettySquareGal]

lol Yeah, me too. Was actually more like silly putty than bread.

(Thinking we'd have a blast watching TZ and eating putty nuggets.)

 

[PrettySquareGal]

You'd be amazed at the shelf life the stuff has.

How old is that loaf, exactly?

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

So is anyone going to buy a loaf and save it?

 

[LizzieMaine]

How old is that loaf, exactly?

Well, the wrapper says "COPYRIGHT 1948," so...

Actually, it's a stage prop -- the wrapper is genuine but the loaf itself is made of carved sponge rubber. Which is almost impossible to tell from the real thing.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Well, the wrapper says "COPYRIGHT 1948," so...

Actually, it's a stage prop -- the wrapper is genuine but the loaf itself is made of carved sponge rubber. Which is almost impossible to tell from the real thing.

Probably toasts the same too!

 

[dashiell]

So is anyone going to buy a loaf and save it?

One does not pay one's final respects by saving the bread. One pays them by eating the bread. From some of the posts I've read, this might be the more difficult thing to do! lol

Although, now I want to try that special PB&J alternative set forth by dhermann1 and Lady Day ...

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I do believe the demise of Wonder Bread began back in the 60's, when we discovered that the bread and cereal we ate as children had the nutritional value of cardboard.

There was a big scandal about it and manufacturers of those products began to "fortify" their products with vitamins, etc. Oddly, they had denatured the wheat or oats or whatever as soon as they got it, then turned around and put vitamins and minerals back in it.

Probably, it preserved the shelf life -- I have noticed that store-bought bread like that lasts and lasts, weeks, if not months, after you put it in the fridge.

Wonder bread, along with Hostess Twinkies, became sort of a joke after that and no one I know bought the bread except out of desperation. One such joke paradied a Wonder Bread ad: "If it's good bread, it's a Wonder!"

A number of bakeries that existed when I was a kid have gone out of existence. There was a Colonial bread bakery here, no longer functioning, and a Supreme bread bakery right near our school playground that burned to the ground and never recovered.

For you NYC folks: What was the name of the bakery in NYC that you could smell as you passed over the Queensboro Bridge in the middle of the night? Is it still there? I've forgotten the name of it. Heavenly smell, those old bakeries.

karol

 

[Kishtu]

fftopic: apparently the price of bread in the UK is going to rise in the next few months because of the poor wheat crop.

Time to start making our own bread again chez Kishtu I think!

Back on topic, we don't have Wonder Bread, but I'm guessing that somethign similar in terms of the mockery value would be "Mothers Pride" - sliced white spongy stuff.

Sandwiches are filthy, but toasts like a demon.... good old-fashioned slightly browned toast dripping with melted butter.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

(Thinking we'd have a blast watching TZ and eating putty nuggets.)

Yer darn tootin'. ,....and stay up all night and watch Monster Movie Classics.

 

[Starius]

I'm not a big fan of wonderbread, but I do think it toasts well.
However, I'm sorry to see it disappear for all you californians. I don't expect it to disappear from my neck of the woods anytime soon.

My father had a work buddy who was also a part time wonderbread truck driver, last year. He kept giving us all sorts of free hostess products that would otherwise be thrown out. Gotta love free hostess....

 

[dhermann1]

Imprinted on my childish brain was Buffalo Bob Smith's mellifluous voice describing "Hostess Cream Filled Cupcakes, with the squiggle on top and the surprise inside"! The man could sell refrigerators to Eskimos.

 

[panamag8or]

I have had lots of white bread in my life (not so much anymore.. icky carbs and all), but I have never knowingly had Wonder Bread. I guess my Mom knew it was questionable, so we never had it.