We tried a new bread the other day, a multigrain affair, and it was a hit. So, when I went to the grocery store on Monday, I was going to get another loaf.
My wife wrote down "9 grain bread" on the grocery list. In the bread isle, they had 9 grain, 12 grain, and 15 grain. I picked up the nine, because I trust my wife...but I had suspicions.
When I got home, I checked the empty bag from our last loaf, and, indeed, it was a twelve grain. For at least the next week and a half, we are doomed to have less grains than we got used to with our old bread.
I feel slow, sluggish, and a little ripped off. I'm also curious as to which grains they omitted in order to get the final number down to nine. Were they vital grains? Did they have any dynamic physiological properties? Were they, for example, endorphin releasers?
And what about that 15 grain? Is it a better bread? Will the extra grains give me more vitality? Or is it like a fifteen year Scotch, where the higher number of grains equate to added complexity of taste and aroma?
Will other bakeries try to follow suit? Will we, as a result, suffer grain inflation? Will Wonder, in an attempt to gain lost marketshares, come out with a 20 grain bread? Aunt Millie responding with a 30 grain? Will the grain war escalate?
This raises some vital questions. How many grains, for instance, can one concievably fit into a loaf of bread? What is the maximum grain threshold? Will we put our great scientists to work on constructing an omni-grain bread? Do our enemies have more grains than us? Is there a grain gap? A grain drain?
Will this desire to increas the grains in our bread lead to other scientific advancements? Do genetically modified grains count as a different grain? What about different varieties?
Will we further our astronomical searches in order to find extraterrestrial grains? Can we fit so many grains into a bread that it would, in its infinite denseness, collapse into itself, thus ripping the time-space fabric? Would it cause our universe to collapse into a single granule of grain?
Maybe the universe that we're in now is just some prior race's multigrain bread, which itself collapsed into a singularity, which then exploded at the "big (grain) bang." It's possible we could be living on what some prior beings considered to be a mere speck of bulghar wheat.
I think that must be the truth...I feel it in every grain of my existence.
3 comments:
12-grain bread at your house? Fancy. All I have is a loaf of Hillbilly bread.
only recently have I begun to willingly eat these nutty breads - I refused for the longest time - give me plain old white bread!!! While in BG, I switched over to whole wheat bread -- change takes time.... ;)
Hey, I know, but I'm dealing with two problems.
First, my wonderful wife was raised on ultra-processed foods, so she actively doesn't like some of the "real" food I've tried to push. She's getting better, but it's a process weaning someone off prepackaged and frozen. Plus she really likes the even slices.
Secondly, the only fresh bread in BG is Panera's, and you still have the chain thing to deal with. And I'm only in Toledo for work, and there is nothing on the way to or fro UT. I must dig more. Remember, we're not all as cosmopolitan as you, sir.
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