Wonder Bread and preservatives

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Yup I was totally amazed by this thread.. If you buy bread or buns here in the netherlands.. they'll be hard (or soft) by evening, and then soft (or hard) the next day, but surely inedible/mouldy the third. (If you buy buns/bread at 8AM, it'll start to be stale by 1PM).

Bread lasting for a month.. or even a week for that matter.. jeez.. that's crazy.

I personally don't even eat bread on the second day because I hate (DESPISE) the taste of it compared to fresh (day one) bread. Some people still do eat it though. I do really like day two hard buns though.. with paté or peanutbutter and people think I'm crazy for eating "garbage". (I like potato chips more too after leaving the bag out open for a day or two.)


If you let out bread for a week here it'll have crawled out and started a life on it's own. It'll be probably in the backyard building a dwelling, or finding a job at a local business.
One of my friends was actually a piece of bread before he became a successful car mechanic.

Everyone puts their "extra" bread in the freezer right after buying and don't get it out till they need it. And people generally buy new bread every week. (With some exceptions like really pure white bread that people dump in the back of the fridge as backup).

Haha, my mom used to say (of very spoiled food, that) "it had grown legs and walked off".

Around here bread loaves last up to a week, then it gets hard and it is still edible but...hard. I wonder, do you notice differences in how long does it take for bread to go bad depending on the seasons? Climate here is sort of like autumn, so that might be a factor.

I have noticed the bread doesn't get that icky blue fuzzy mold on it as much. When I was a kid, bread could be completely covered with it if left too long and it was really gross. The worst I see nowadays are a few patches maybe, and not fuzzy.

It depends on various factors. If you keep bread sealed or in the fridge, it will last longer.