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[–] meekah@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The bakery part hits me especially hard, I'm living in germany, where many people are proud of the bread culture, and you basically need to look for artisan bakeries to get stuff they actually made themselves instead of having frozen stuff delivered and just baked in the store. The saddest part is most people don't realize, while still writing comments online about how "american bread is just sugar"

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're ever in San Francico there's this hole in the wall Bob's Donuts on Polk Street, go there after 8pm and order whatever was just made. Eat a five-minute-old donut.

Bob's supplies most of the cafés and donut shops in San Francisco, and tapping the source is a fast way to becoming a donut snob and addict.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Bay Area is actually pretty good for fresh made food. You can watch someone take the crab off the boat and then make it for you.

Most of the US is not like this.

[–] Flyspeck@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

On top of that the Bay is also close to central valley farms for fresh fruit & vegetables

[–] justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hear, hear. Another bullshit part about this is that they often explicitly ask for baker apprenticeship and/or certificates in the job description, and you still end up just tossing factory-made frozen dough clumps into an oven. Why do you first need to prove that you can make cakes and doughnuts and the like from scratch, in order to be allowed to toss frozen clumps from a factory into an oven? It makes no sense.

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just a guess, but marketing and truth in advertising laws. They can then say they have real bakers preparing the products and not be lying.