Growing up, my mom would get us Schmidt’s brand Blue Ribbon bread, even though it was a little pricey and we couldn’t spend too much on groceries. So I grew up eating the good stuff. The other month I bought some of the cheap stuff — some store brand bread for about a dollar on sale. I didn’t realize how bad it was, and it sat on the counter for weeks.
I started shopping at Harris Teeter a couple of years ago when they opened up a couple of stores in Howard County, and they have this brand of bread called Nature’s Own. Apparently Nature’s Own is a southern thing and their distribution only reaches as far north as Maryland and a little part of Pennsylvania. And good thing too, since this bread is the greatest thing since, well, sliced bread.
I keep making up excuses to eat the bread, and peanut butter keeps disappearing from our pantry. And when there’s a sale on Nature’s Own at the store, it’s like there’s a blizzard coming in, the way I stockpile on bread.
(Picture taken Feb 2010, before Snowmageddon) Can you spot the last loaf of Nature’s Own Honey Wheat?:
