The New White-Bread America

(I like to bake and I often make home-made bread. I like to make a loaf or two on the weekends and then I have bread for toast all week. I’ve done it for years. But at one office where I worked, I’d come in early and eat my toast in the employee lunch room and one coworker would force me into this conversation almost daily.)

Coworker: “Where did you get that bread?”

Me: “I made it.”

Coworker: “Oh, do you have a bread machine?”

Me: “Nope, made it without one.”

Coworker: “That’s not possible. You HAVE TO have a bread machine to make bread.”

Me: “How do you think your grandmother made bread before they invented bread machines?”

Coworker: *deer in headlights look*

(This went on over and over because she simply refused to believe it was possible for someone to make bread without using a bread machine.)