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In retrospect, I should probably clarify:

We used to have these beautiful traditional loves of crusty bread: Vienna, Split Tin (with flour on the top), lovely crusty and malty Granary. the "problem" with those was wedge shaped or wavy hand sliced slices. Some bright spark says "FTFY with my pre-sliced loaf".

The problems with pre-slicing are:
  • Slices are a uniform thickness. OK, you can buy different thickness loaves, but that doesn't let you taylor the slice for the purpose within each loaf
  • Pre-sliced bread tends to dry out: OK says smart guy, we can make it moister to compensate
  • We now have slightly soggy moist bread which goes mouldy quickly: OK says smart guy, we can put in some preservatives to keep it longer
  • We now have "atomic" bread, which smells slightly unpleasant, has the consistency of cotton wool and is still of uniform thickness


Give me a traditional chunky piece of bread that has real bread texture, lashings of butter plus Marmite, jam , Golden Syrup, whatever else your favourite topping is (or have it naked!)

I bake pretty much all of our bread at home. We slice it as we need it, to the desired optimal thickness. It has a wonderful smell, great texture, is delicious and it's neither soggy nor dry.

I HATE sliced bread.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

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