to wish people wouldn't squeeze the bloody bread?

[newmomof1]

Why, oh why, do people have to squeeze 6 loaves of bread in the supermarket before deciding that the first one was appropriately squishy?!

I'm well aware about 50% of posters on here will have a very 'valid' reason for doing so (they'll pretend they're testing the freshness) but realistically we all know there's no real logic to it 😂

I do this... sort of (OP, have you been following me round supermarkets?!). But I'm not squeezing, I'm checking the shape of the loaf. Some have a pronounced indent down the side where they expand out of the top of the baking tin, and these I reject. I prefer a squarer slice.

@UnderperformingSeal I may or may not have followed you...

See, those loaves are irritating but the woman who triggered the post yesterday was buying a pack of Roberts bread. The packaging is actually see-through!

In her defence, there's even a 'squeeze me' message on the side of the bag!

I might just contact them and tell them to stop being ridiculous and to take it off.

Squeezing bread is bad but not as bad as squeezing the pick ‘n’ mix as my aunt used to do. Particularly as she was on the search for hard centres.

So the bread squeezers that shop online. Do they have to put special instructions to the picker?

When I worked on the checkouts as a student and a customer was rude I used to squeeze their bread really hard as I packed their shopping 😂

This really made me laugh.

Some things need to be tested. I saw some scones in packaging, they were the spots own. I needed to know if they were stale. A gentle push let me know they were.

When I worked on the checkouts as a student and a customer was rude I used to squeeze their bread really hard as I packed their shopping

Excellent work.

When I waitressed if people were rude then asked me to take photos (pre digital) I used to cut all their heads off.

I told someone off for pawing the unwrapped bread rolls in Tesco. the woman and her friend just looked at me - they didn't get that noone would want to buy stuff they'd just had their grubby mitts all over.

Loathe it (even when its a wrapped loaf!)

@Sexnotgender I had to read your post twice because a quick scan read made me think you reacted really badly to rudeness and started actually decapitating people I blame sleep deprivation

Haha, there were definitely customers I could cheerfully have shoved under a bus but I wouldn’t have decapitated them, that’s awfully messy.

It's taken me 50 years to teach OH not to pack bread at the bottom of the bag! It's argument used to be that there was still as much bread there.

When I waitressed if people were rude then asked me to take photos (pre digital) I used to cut all their heads off.

Wow that's a bit of an overreaction.

I didn’t physically cut their heads off, just in the picture

I thought at first the OP meant she objected to people squeezing uncut loaves of bread, at home whilst they were cutting a slice.
Everyone knows that when you cut a slice from a loaf, you hold the loaf very lightly, and gently stroke a really sharp bread knife over the crust until it penetrates, and then slowly finish the cut.
My family used to hack at uncut loaves to cut a slice, and left the rest of the loaf looking like someone had sat on it.

Try having to eat gluten free bread. It's bad enough for falling apart already without having a loaf that some idiot has squeezed.