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We have a little bread machine at my house. Bread can be damn awesome, and worthy of being eaten by itself. 3nodding

Have you ever had Hawaiian sweet bread? That stuff rocks.

One of my other favorite by-itself breads is garlic bread with real, whole cloves of roasted garlic baked in. Mmm.

But my favorite sandwich actually requires specific bread: hot, peppered pastrami with melted Swiss cheese and some kind of mustard (preferably honey) on fresh, toasted, dark rye bread. *drool*

I vaguely remember having a discussion with Arbo about America being sadly lacking in bakeries. I hope I'm not making that up or generalising, but it stuck in my mind because I was shocked and horrified. Almost every small town here has a bakery. gonk I know, because when we go on holidays we always stop off at them for a meat pie or sausage roll and a cake. The vanilla slice is an Aussie favourite...

Anyway, we have a bakery about street away from my house so on weekends we often buy rolls or croissants for lunch. My parents like sourdough but I'm not really a fan. For toast and stuff we just buy bread from the supermarket... I like multigrain, usually.

And subway bread is crap. mad I'm not reaaaally a fan of bread from Asian bakeries like Bread Top. It's too light and they often put that sweet glaze on the top.

Sorry... I suppose I'm also quite passionate about bread. sad
This probably also explains why I eat too much carbs. >.>

we used to have lots of bakeries in the US

but they got taken over by supermarkets where they are struggling overworked departments that import most of their specialties instead of making them fresh.

i do love fresh crusty bread, you bread off a hunk and the steam comes out!

too bad i am so lousy at baking; my last attempt at cheese loaves could have been used as paving stones.