[jambutty]

When I lived in Blackburn I would make a point of going to the 3 days market once a week to a particular bread stall, mainly because they had first rate muffins. But I noticed something when one of the servers that I knew personally wasn’t working there anymore. I started to get the muffins that weren’t fresh that day. They were still edible but they weren’t fresh.

Regular customers or those known to the ladies serving got fresh muffins. Others got yesterday’s left overs until there were none left. It was the same with bread. The shelves behind had two piles of muffins and two piles of bread, sliced and unsliced.

It is the same story with the two bread shops here in Darwen. Once in a while I like to buy a small white unsliced so that I can slice it myself for some decent toast or to accompany a bowl of soup. But I always seemed to get a loaf that was not fresh. Now when I buy a loaf there I point to the stack of bread that I want with the words, “one of those FRESH loaves please.” You won’t believe the looks that I get.