Fresh Bread or packaged bread

I always thought that was partly financial and partly that so many sugared surfaces would stick to plastic. That bakery franchisor that requires its franchieees to supply free bread and butter all day long also requires the use of paper bags rather than plastic ones. I've no idea just why though.

Mushrooms are sold in paper bags as opposed to plastic for some reason. Chefs reject any mushrooms inside a plastic bag.

Anyone know what that Brother's Bakery that makes bread according to middle ages recipes does? Paper or Plastic?

Bread is five dollars a loaf but is routinely on sale at 3.00.
It is the result of low quality industrialized wheat, corporate owned seeds, industrial ovens, etc.

We have quality revolutions in beer, wine, coffee, chocolate, etc. that embrace higher prices but no one really wants to embrace those artisanal bakers with their nine dollar loaves but that is about what it takes to make a high quality bread from high quality flour. Even a labor of love requires at the very least to break even. No one can have good quality bread at the prices we all tend to cling to.

Industrialized bread (often with saw dust) is our economically induced fate.

And even if ingredients are disclosed the important health-related distinction of particle size does not have to be disclosed, so we are stuck with an inferior industrialized product solely on account of a massive phobia over a five dollar rise in the nominal price of a loaf of bread.

Some cooks buy their own grains and grind their own flour but there should be something in between similar to craft brews or gourmet coffee and these high prices 'chocolate bars' wherein customers get gourmet chocolate.

Quote: Nareed

Well, a package of pan Bimbo (really) stays fresh enough to make sandwiches or French toast for about ten days. Bakery bread goes rock hard in three days.

Three days??? In an area of Ireland originally settled by French refugees there is a legally-protected bread that is baked in the morning and if it remains unsold by noon will probably be discarded since it certainly is spoiled by the early afternoon. Its 'shelf life' is not three days, its barely six hours.