Local Bakeries' Twist-Tie Color-Codes

[scrivener]

Hello. I'm sure you know that you can tell from the color the twist-tie (or sack-clip) what day of the week a loaf of bread was baked on. When I worked at a mom-and-pops in Hilo, I knew which colors corresponded with which days of the week for the local brand, but I don't remember them.

I'd love to know what the codes are for the bakeries on Oahu. Anyone have the info? I'm mostly concerned with sliced sandwich bread.

[Da Rolling Eye]

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They do the same thing with poi....uh, sorry can't help you. I tried asking a sales clerk at Marukai and she couldn't get it straight either.

[adrian]

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If that info is turned public, won't bakeries catch on when specific people buy certain breads?

[tikiyaki]

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I just looik for the color that's all the way on the back of the shelf....that's usually the freshest.

[Da Rolling Eye]

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I just looik for the color that's all the way on the back of the shelf....that's usually the freshest.

What if......all the loaves are lined up side by side. Seriously, I've seen them stacked like this. Then what? Left side, right side?

[lavagal]

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Don't some of the tabs have dates on them? Scriv, maybe you (or a student project) could visit a store for a few weeks to determine the pattern. Do they still have outlet stores selling the older stuff? Maybe someone there could provide you the info?

[tikiyaki]

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What if......all the loaves are lined up side by side. Seriously, I've seen them stacked like this. Then what? Left side, right side?

Oh, what I meant was, whichever color is in the front, you find the stuff in the back that is a different color, and squeeze that one, It's usually softer.

Supermarkets rotate the stock, always putting the oldest stuff in front....same goes for Milk.

[lihingmui]

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Not sure if this applies locally. Hope this helps.

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/breadtag.asp

[Da Rolling Eye]

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Just got back from Marukai to buy bread since DQ didn't have any fresh bread in yet. We like the St. Germaines Family Bread, thin slice white. All this brand bread comes bagged and twist tied. While there, the delivery guy happened to show up with racks of fresh bread for the day. I asked him about the different colored twist ties and he said it means nothing as to how old the bread is. For them, the different colors are for the different types of bread, not when it was made. For the bread we like, they use white ties. In fact, I was there early so I grabbed whatever they had left which was at least day old. They all had white ties. At Marukai, they deliver fresh bread daily and I know that they do run out by the late afternoon on most days.

SO, for this brand of bread, anyway, it doesn't matter.

Btw, I remember asking a Loves Bakery delivery guy at Foodland one morning. He gave a really vague answer, making me believe he didn't want us consumers knowing exactly what the color code was.

[Da Rolling Eye]

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Not sure if this applies locally. Hope this helps.

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/breadtag.asp

Interesting article, but I wouldn't put much faith into bread companies pulling bread after only 2 days. I've bought some pretty wasted bread more often than not from various markets including Safeway and Foodland. That's why I buy only the Japanese style bread that's sold at Marukai and Don Quijote.

[scrivener]

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I would think that the bakeries want their customers to get their product when it is at its best. The burden should be on the stores to move product quickly enough so that the consumers get good product. I mean, why put freshness dates on products if you don't want customers to be armed with knowledge?

[lavagal]

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One time at Safeway I found bread with ants in it and let the bakery people know...it wasn't the store's bread, but from one of the local big bakeries, and I felt it would be really a drag for the bakery and the store to have bags of bread full of ants in them. And then the press getting a hold of that! Although, you must admit, the protein count would be higher.

[Da Rolling Eye]

Re: Local Bakeries' Twist-Tie Color-Codes

One time at Safeway I found bread with ants in it and let the bakery people know...it wasn't the store's bread, but from one of the local big bakeries, and I felt it would be really a drag for the bakery and the store to have bags of bread full of ants in them. And then the press getting a hold of that! Although, you must admit, the protein count would be higher.

Akkk! Kinda like opening a loaf of whatcha thought was a whole grain bread only to find it's turned into 7 different shades of blue, green and grey and that actully wasn't the color brown you saw through the bag that says, white bread?

[adrian]

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One time at Safeway I found bread with ants in it and let the bakery people know...it wasn't the store's bread, but from one of the local big bakeries, and I felt it would be really a drag for the bakery and the store to have bags of bread full of ants in them. And then the press getting a hold of that! Although, you must admit, the protein count would be higher.

I bet that bread would have been very crunchy.

[oggboy]

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Lucky you weren`t going for poppy seed.....