The Day Old Bread Store.

Remy said:
They don't have dedicated day old bread stores anymore. At least I haven't seen one in years.
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That was true with fresh baked bakery bread. You know the good kind... real bread. Most of the shelves in the store have bread with so many preservatives that they could have buried it with the Pharaohs. Maybe all bread comes that way now.
 

Remy said:
And I wonder what they do with them? Donate? Throw away? It seems all that food and other products, some which are purposely destroyed, can be written off by the store and/or company for taxes. So that's so much easier than donating. Just dump it, as long as they still get the money.

I wish this would change.
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They are donating the produce and bakery items to the food bank around here...as long as its still good
that is. Glad they are doing that.
 
Fyrefox said:
The big attraction there was baked goods rather than bread, but my mother frequented an Entenmann’s discount clearance store in New Jersey. They had “red line” and “black line” clearance items, with one being even older than the other. The stuff was cheap as was my mother, and if you resided in a household as I did where home baking was almost non-existent, it was manna from heaven. I’m probably alive today because of the additives and preservatives in all those over-the-hill baked goods I consumed… 🍰 🧁 😋

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I love Entenmann’s cheese Danish. I could eat a whole one by myself within a day.
 

JustDave said:
That was true with fresh baked bakery bread. You know the good kind... real bread. Most of the shelves in the store have bread with so many preservatives that they could have buried it with the Pharaohs. Maybe all bread comes that way now.
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Not all. I read the labels but you are right about the store bakery breads, many of them have additional unknown ingredients.

Most Trader Joe's breads are good at no strange ingredients and Dave's Killer bread brand.
 
Pappy said:
Well thank you Janice. I worked for Friehofers for 26 years. Family owned and the very best. Sadly, shareholders sold them out to Kraft foods and it was all down hill until I retired.
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I think the one I went to was in Palatine Bridge.
Do you mean the company doesn't exist anymore?
If I ever make it back to the east coast, everything familiar will have disappeared. :(
 
Freihofer's bakery ( a regional business here) operated several outlets in the area. I remember my mom getting "bird bread" - a huge plastic bag filled with about 10 to 12 loaves of stale bread. Maybe the birds got some of it, but I think we at most of it. You can't tall if bread is stale if it's toasted (stale doesn't necessarily mean moldy - just dried out a little). Freihofer's closed many of the outlets a few years ago.
 
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JaniceM said:
I think the one I went to was in Palatine Bridge.
Do you mean the company doesn't exist anymore?
If I ever make it back to the east coast, everything familiar will have disappeared. :(
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It does exist and as far as I know it is now owned by Bimbo bread co.
Palatine Bridge is down near St. Johnsville isn’t it? I use to go down as far as Sprakers when I worked for Millbrook bread.
debodun said:
Freihofer's bakery ( a regional business here) operated several outlets in the area. I remember my mom getting "bird bread" - a huge plastic bag filled with about 10 to 12 loaves of stale bread. Maybe the birds got some of it, but I think we at most of it. You can't tall if bread is stale if it's toasted (stale doesn't necessarily mean moldy - just dried out a little. Freihofer's closed many of the outlets a few years ago.
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As I mentioned before, after Kraft bought it they made the drivers buy their own trucks and gave them a small increase in commissions. They closed a lot of thrift stores and did away with a lot of the product line. Only worried about profits and the heck with its employees.
 
Freihofer's even had their own 15 minute TV show that aired in the late afternoon in the 1950s and 60s and was aimed at kids. "The Freddie Freihofer Show" had a host that would tell stories as he illustrated them with quick sketches on a drawing board. The audience consisted of a "peanut gallery" like set-up of kids who were celebrating birthdays. Of course the main function was to advertise Friehofer products which were even plugged in the show's jaunty theme song:

Freddie, we're ready, we're waiting for you.
Freddie, we love everything that you do.
We love you cookies, your cakes and your pies.
We love the way you roll those funny, bunny eyes.

Freddie Freihofer, we think you're swell.
Freddie we love the stories you tell.
We love your cookies, your bread and your cakes.
We love everything Freddie Friehofer bakes.

I was on the TV show twice - when I was 4 and when I was 7. The first host was Bud Mason who died in a tragic car crash. His duties were assumed by Jim Fisk who passed away 11 years ago. These are photos of the two times I was on the show. Can you pick me out?

Freddie Freihoffer 1956.jpgFreddie Freihoffer 1959.jpg
 
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Pappy said:
It does exist and as far as I know it is now owned by Bimbo bread co.
Palatine Bridge is down near St. Johnsville isn’t it? I use to go down as far as Sprakers when I worked for Millbrook bread.

As I mentioned before, after Kraft bought it they made the drivers buy their own trucks and gave them a small increase in commissions. They closed a lot of thrift stores and did away with a lot of the product line. Only worried about profits and the heck with its employees.
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Yes, that's where Palatine Bridge is- near St. Johnsville, Fort Plain, etc.

I haven't tried any Bimbo products lately, but didn't really like them years ago.
 
grocers here do the donut day old sales but bread goes back to brand.. day old meat in some grocers also...ft. mohave az had the last day old bread store I found.
 
Remy said:
Does anyone else remember these? My mother shopped there. I have few good memories but we were allowed one of those packaged baked treats every time we went. Like the twin cupcakes or those banana things.

My mother would buy a lot and then freeze. She said fresh bread isn't good for you. I disagree with that strange statement.

They don't have dedicated day old bread stores anymore. At least I haven't seen one in years.
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We still had those in NW Indiana until about 5 or 6 years ago. they disappeared overnight. I'm sure in my own mind that the bread companies bought them up, forcing everyone to have to pay their present day ridiculous prices for a loaf of bread.

That really hurt the wild animals to whom i fed that bread to every night. At about 15 cents a loaf, they ate pretty good.

Heck, much of it was still perfectly edible for people. That fact, I'm sure, was costing the bread companies a ton of lost sales on their so-called fresh bread.
 
Indiana Joe said:
We still had those in NW Indiana until about 5 or 6 years ago. they disappeared overnight. I'm sure in my own mind that the bread companies bought them up, forcing everyone to have to pay their present day ridiculous prices for a loaf of bread.

That really hurt the wild animals to whom i fed that bread to every night. At about 15 cents a loaf, they ate pretty good.

Heck, much of it was still perfectly edible for people. That fact, I'm sure, was costing the bread companies a ton of lost sales on their so-called fresh bread.
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I think you bring up a great point about those stores being bought up and closed. Greed always wins out.

I wish I had the nerve to dumpster dive.

 
debodun said:
The last time I looked at bread in the nearest store, there wasn't a loaf of bread under $8 and they were what I call half or short loaves.
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I got a loaf of Orowheat organic thin slice at WINCO Foods for under 5. But bread is getting really high. Trader Joe's is holding at decent prices and I check the Safeway grocery store half price bakery rack which they have shoved in an alcove to the back of the store.
 
I usually check out the "day old" shelves in the store before shopping for the fresher baked goods. I doubt that the day old items are actually that. I've seen moldy goods on those shelves. At the store, they have a bakery department (where the day old items originate), but also have a bread aisle where the commercially made breads are.
 
I don't buy bread any more, but I used to. It was very expensive. Seems strange, as flour is cheap.

Maybe making your own is a good idea. If you don’t want to make it by hand, there are breadmakers.
 

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