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http://www.elle.com/news/culture/bread-shaming

Welcome to the era of Bread Shaming, where your ciabatta roll is suddenly everyone’s business. “I get weird looks in the street,” says Laure Ayel, a lithe blonde Parisian who works in advertising and lives in Manhattan, “because I am eating a piece of a fresh baguette, and the women make weird faces at me!”

Poll Results

OptionVotes
i love bread 66
bread shame is not at hing 22
bread shame is a thing 10


j., Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link

bunch of cool ppl in that article

write 500 words of song (sleepingbag), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mag9weS6p91roe4b7o1_500.jpg

j., Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link

this is why you shouldn't live in Manhattan

macklin' rosie (crüt), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link

Q
Bread of Shame

Why doesn't loving someone unconditionally give them Bread of Shame? Isn't that how we basically got Bread of Shame in the first place, because the Light gave us everything and loved us unconditionally? ~RN

http://cdn1.kabbalah.com/kabbalah.com/images/teachers/ruth-rosenberg-380x380.jpg Answered by: Ruth Rosenberg

You are correct about the fact that the Light loves us and gives to us unconditionally and it does create Bread of Shame, but that will never stop. The focus of the Light is not on itself, but to share. It is our responsibility to engage in restriction, sharing, and being loving so we can earn what is given to us continuously. Therefore, part of this process is to be “a Light-like being.”

The act of loving unconditionally is more important for us than the recipient. In acting like the Light we earn the connection with it. Many times, when you give or love unconditionally, it shines so brightly that it gives the other person the inspiration to become part of that as well. Generally, with spiritual work we should always focus on our own work and less on the work of another person.

j., Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link

Have to go back to making bread after discovering a great loaf in LIDl for the last couple of weeks.
Why the bread shame? too many diabetics and ducks being fed the wrong thing?

Stevolende, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link

The baker's trade terrified the young man. He learn'd as much of it as would keep him going, -- but when he began to see into it, the smells, the unaccountable swelling of the dough, the oven door like a door before a Sacrament, -- the daily repetitions of smell and ferment and some hidden Drama, as in the Mass, -- was he fleeing to the repetitions of the Sky, believing them safer, not as saturated in life and death? If Christ's Body could enter Bread, then what else might? -- might it not be as easily haunted by ghosts less welcome? Alone in the early empty mornings even for a few seconds with the mute white rows, he was overwhelmed by the ghostliness of Bread.

j., Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link

That's why they call it Bread Alone, cuz you'll be eating it alone! Hahahahahaha!

Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link

totally a thing

woy wogers (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link

it is kinda a thing here -- the perceived gluten intolerance, dunno if people actively "shame" each other though -- but the central SF Bay Area is "special snowflake" central

sarahell, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link

See also: breadmaking bores. A different but still pertinent kind of breadshaming going on with those guys.

now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link

i love how the second commenter out of the gate is ready with a "b-b-but bread is bad for you and makes you fat."

nurse with attitude (get bent), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link

p.s. i haven't eaten bread in a week and that bagel/cream cheese up top looks GORGEOUS

nurse with attitude (get bent), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link

keep me posted this could be my issue

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link

making toast right now

difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link

it gets better

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link

bread shaman

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link

these are interesting & maddening false-ternary poll options

verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link

definitely a thing
i've seen people "sneak" pieces of bread like they're eaten radishes from the witch's garden
i think it's less about gluten and more about carbs though

funch dressing (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link

it was a really tough choice!

do i vote for the most "insightful" choice, the one with the typo, or the one i feel most strongly about

sarahell, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link

always vote with your heart
that means the one with the spelling error (for me)

funch dressing (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link

there are really disturbing results when you type "funny bread" into google image search

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link

eaten? eating.

god i hate today

funch dressing (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link

voting to establish 'i love bread' as its own board to discuss this and other important bread related issues

johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link

i've never experienced this (and i fucking love bread) but i live in texas where people are busy judging me in other ways so my vote probably doesn't count

building a desert (art), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link

I had a friend from college who referring to bread as "space food" in that it took up space and was filling but not nutritionally dense. I have the suspicion that her family had some body issues when it came to diet but I think some people do paint bread and other carb-heavy food as caloricly dense but not nutritionally necessary.

a strange man (mh), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link

i have been shamed for eating low-class bread : /

mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link

i have been shamed for being a bread snob

sarahell, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link

I live a block from a French-style bakery

a strange man (mh), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link

i live less than a block from whole foods

sarahell, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link

xp well, you live in a french-style city

mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link

There's a combination boulangerie + patisserie + bistro within walking distance of my house (a mile). They sell the good stuff for $3.85 a loaf. I am very happy about this. I have no shame.

king of chin-stroking banality (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link

anyway this sort of food extremism makes me really annoyed and heightens my latent misanthropy

sarahell, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link

"I was tacitly bread shamed" seems every bit as special snowflake as gluten sensitivity.

Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link

i think my co-workers leave bread products out for everyone to nosh specifically to torture me (they are all rail thin and eat junk all day including lunch)

Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link

I'm kind of reminded of the recent gawker post about Lena Dunham feeding a 22 dollar salmon salad plate to her dog where one of the common comment themes was disgust at the thought of eating off a plate that might once have been licked by a dog (regardless of washing). It's just two sides of the same awfulness.

Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link

Bread shame is more of a domestic thing than a public thing, in my world. You know that thing where one domestic partner suggests having grilled cheese for dinner and the other feigns disagreement in a way that makes both partners feel bad for wanting to eat bread for dinner. Should we? "No, not if you don't want to. Do I? Kind of, but maybe we should be healthy."

fields of salmon, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link

Doesn't have to be grilled cheese. Could just be baguette with dinner.

fields of salmon, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link

the other day i bought sara lee made with whole grain white bread ™ because it was the cheapest thing on the shelf and thought WHITE WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK but figured hey whole grain

but it seems i have been played for a fool

j., Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link

p.s. i haven't eaten bread in a week and that bagel/cream cheese up top looks GORGEOUS

Is that a bagel? I don't think that's a bagel, it's too oddly shaped.

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link

If anyone told me they didn't eat bread I would just look at them. And judge.

popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link

I meant to type this into ilx like two months ago when it was relevant but 'im allergic to glutten' is the new 'I don't watch tv'

dude (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link

the great thing about gluten free people is how easily they are thwarted. you can buy something called "vital wheat gluten" which is essentially pure gluten. when i cook for the gluten free crowd, i like to throw a tablespoon of this stuff in to whatever i'm making, even if it's something that wouldnt ordinarily have flour in it. for example, thai lentil curry with lemongrass AND GLUTEN. so far no complaints, which proves this whole thing is horse shit.

disclaimer: i would never fuck with anyone who had actual allergies, sensitivities, or cultural/religious dietary concerns. only gluten.

fields of salmon, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link

so wait, the gluten thing is bogus?

Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05mw3CYG4Qg

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/6PcCmri.jpg

Scylla and Charybdis

, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link

That sounds like an asshole thing to do, fields of salmon, if you were cooking for someone who had been medically diagnosed with celiac's disease

, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link

OTOH probably 99% of the gluten-free crowd are self-diagnosers

, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link

I wish half loafs were a thing at my local supermarket. I throw out too much bread.

satanic mess (brownie), Friday, 23 May 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link

Come bowl with me

, Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link

do you just forget about it after a couple days

brimstead, Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link

whatever happened to 'staff of life'?

king of chin-stroking banality (Aimless), Saturday, 24 May 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link

Raisin a glass to that toast, so good.

playback in metal position (Hunt3r), Saturday, 24 May 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link

don't throw out bread! make stuffing/croutons/panzanella.

nurse with attitude (get bent), Saturday, 24 May 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link

or bread pudding.

nurse with attitude (get bent), Saturday, 24 May 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link

you can even make a savory bread pudding with gruyere and mushrooms.

nurse with attitude (get bent), Saturday, 24 May 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link

Croutons are sandpaper for your upper palate

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Friday, May 23, 2014 9:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

As is a toasted sandwich

I know of no other carb that will leave your palate in tattered gum strings like bread will

Masochists, all of you

, Saturday, 24 May 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link

waah.

nurse with attitude (get bent), Saturday, 24 May 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link

haha I keep doing that

Kwotch Pawasites - Wrong Or Right (wins), Saturday, 24 May 2014 08:47 (nine years ago) link

thought you meant "asking if turtles eat bread" for a minute there

coign of wantage (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 May 2014 08:57 (nine years ago) link

that would be a weird tic

Kwotch Pawasites - Wrong Or Right (wins), Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:00 (nine years ago) link

Turtles eating bread? What a load of chelonia

, Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:02 (nine years ago) link

don't mock

coign of wantage (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:05 (nine years ago) link

that was terrapin (terrible) you guys should be in terrapin (therapy)

Kwotch Pawasites - Wrong Or Right (wins), Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:06 (nine years ago) link

Therapy would be helpful in drawing me out of my shell

, Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:12 (nine years ago) link

snap out of it man

Kwotch Pawasites - Wrong Or Right (wins), Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link

Don't knock it (my shell) until you've tried it

, Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:15 (nine years ago) link

if ILX has tortoise anything, it's that turtle turtle turtle turtle leatherback something SB

coign of wantage (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:16 (nine years ago) link

Wow that was terrible. I'm going home (something turtles are known to do in order to lay eggs)

, Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:25 (nine years ago) link

this one galapagos to 11 (miles per hour beacause turtles are fairly slow)

katsu kittens (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:50 (nine years ago) link

^ this turtle i mean. the joke is it's a box turtle, which is a type of them.

katsu kittens (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:51 (nine years ago) link

I could maybe give up bread except in the form of pretzels

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link

twisted logic there

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gifcJIz4Tas

, Sunday, 15 June 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link

thinking of having some toast but rly concerned I might get shamed

dn/ac (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 June 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link

oh my dayo what strange alchemy man was not permitted this knowledge

j., Sunday, 15 June 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 30 June 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

i can't wait

j., Monday, 30 June 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

today i overheard a girl saying, "i love bread so much i could eat an entire bakery in, like, 25 minutes."

lxy, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link

Girl otm

first is the worst (askance johnson), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link

six years pass...

I am going to start a bread poll shortly. Would anyone like to make any relevant requests

imago, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link

We are going to poll ALL OF THE BREADS!

imago, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link

It will be a fiesta of slabbed grain!

imago, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link

How are you going to handle sourdough

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link

Well you have to watch not to overwork it

Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link

Will there be current puns?

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link

Get nicely toasted.

fields of salmon, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link

Such a rye sense of humor.

nickn, Friday, 22 January 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link

No knead for that.

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 22 January 2021 01:22 (three years ago) link

D'ough

Qanondorf (darraghmac), Friday, 22 January 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link

Loafers, the lot of you.

pomenitul, Friday, 22 January 2021 01:30 (three years ago) link

Don't be crumby.

nickn, Friday, 22 January 2021 01:34 (three years ago) link

you’re trying to get a rise out of me

Dan S, Friday, 22 January 2021 01:39 (three years ago) link

I like the idea of a bread poll

Dan S, Friday, 22 January 2021 01:43 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8U23AS1irY

Pie face (jed_), Friday, 22 January 2021 05:14 (three years ago) link

are you still in knead of recommendations?

Punster McPunisher, Saturday, 23 January 2021 06:17 (three years ago) link


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