Goodbye cheap $1/ea donuts

Truth be told considering how worthless the dollar has become over the past couple decades? Even a $1½ buck bear claw or apple fritter is a rare find. It's the nature of fiat money.

 

. . . not that any other national 'fiat currencies' have done much better, most have done considerably worse.

 

Yeah I tried with cornmeal, once... Visual aid:

 

I'll bet you like your peameal bacon though... AKA Canadian bacon with cornmeal.

 

A chain recently opened up in the Philly area that imports the dough or boiled bagels from NYC.

Did hear about a bakery in Florida that installed a water treatment system to adjust the tap water to the chemistry of Long Island's.

 

Breweries do this all the time; it's pretty much required for contract expansions when a given variety needs to be produced in several places to meet market demand.

Bakers have a harder time justifying the expense of that installation, but the big operators will do it.

 

Dang me. Now suppose I should make bagels this weekend, which means I have to get a bag of einkorn flour, which isn't cheap. Ah, well. Maybe plain and cinnamon raisin. Water isn't NY. Just Oregon well.

And, might as well make it party and have some marrow bones for the dogs!
kris

 

They would enjoy the bagels too, probably.

 

Bread-like things across the world are diverse, baked or fried.

Donuts in China are mostly linear not circular. Youtiao present more surface area for oil retention. I did eat them before cardiovascular issues recommended against, but their deliciousness is not less than the more familiar toroids.

Every country does bread well in its own way, but may falter in imitating others. Croissants here seem pointless. Adequate bagels are available in Beijing and Shanghai but ... so far away. A larger reason would be needed to travel. Mass-market bread in China is uninteresting in texture and overly sweet. Even sleepy Kunming has adequate small real baguettes on offer for < $3USD, but one must know where to find them.

I suggest that the best bread-like things anywhere are those made by long local traditions. If you want to travel, but stay home in terms of food, you will face disappointment from simulations, and miss interesting local versions.

 

But you’ll never know it, so we’re back to the ignorance thread

 

Interesting thought. Start an ignorance topic - where any random / off topic / unrelated notion IS the TOPIC!

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Think the vent thread fills that just fine

 

Goodbye cheap $2.70 gasoline

 

Made the bagels. Between fam, dogs and friends the 16 were gone by mid-afternoon Saturday. Did not get any pix...next time. Local bakery charges $3.79 each.
kris

 

Wow!

 

Ah, you know. West Coast small batch natural foods bakery.

Organic ingredients, baked over wood from sustainable forests. Water harvested directly from the clouds.

At least, I assume so. Not from the WalMart in-store shop.

But I have seen some of the grocery store premium bagels going for $3 each in bags of five ($14.99), while "lesser" brands go for less than a buck, each.

 

I saw $2.479 yesterday - but yeah.
Nobody minded it a few years ago - right?

Good time to be driving a Prius.....

 

I get the day ends at $3 for 5 from the grocery chain. Not as good as local NJ, but much better than Lenders.

 

Made a killing at costco just before the war started, refueling the pickup. Plus, it just sits there in the driveway until summer anyways. Took all 5 of the Jerry cans down there as well.
The plugin hybrid gasser usually takes over ½ a year to get down to a quarter tank - due to round trips wonder 30mi - so crossing fingers that prices will come back down before the tanks Get Low.
Fuel prices. USA is so spoiled
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Some lady on the street told me don’t eat bread and bagels. They’re always telling me stuff. Or should I say woman?