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Americans don’t eat bread. By that I mean it’s not a staple. We don’t buy bread daily.
We don’t eat bread daily. And what we eat really doesn’t deserve to be called bread. Most stores sell gummy, soft, baked masses called bread, but it is to real bread what Nescafe is to real coffee.
Real bread is dense and dark. It goes bad in a few days and can be bought still warm if one gets to the corner store quickly enough.
In seventeen days, we will eat bread.