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SUPERMARKETS ARE SUPPOSEDLY DESIGNED TO MAKE SHOPPING EASIER – BUT TOO MUCH CHOICE CAN BE A BAD THING, SAYS FLO WHITAKER

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Do you remember when buying a loaf of bread was a simple process? There were two basic questions to consider; large or small; brown or white? Nowadays there’s such a bewildering choice. It takes forever to peruse the supermarket bread aisle – and don’t get me started about people who feel compelled to squeeze and poke every loaf. Yes, I’m talking to you! You’re a grown-up… you’re not 3 – stop it!

Just when I’d rejected the healthy bread options in favour of some calorie-laden pastries, I bumped into a virtuous, smug-faced acquaintance who surveyed the contents of my trolley with a withering glance, issued a reprimand about the ‘horrors’ of commercially made bread – and went on and on about how she’d spent the entirety of lockdown baking wholesome fayre for an apparently grateful neighbourhood, but she couldn’t stand here all day talking, (“Thank you, God” I secretly intoned) because she had to rush home as she was babysitting a large quantity of starter yeast in the airing cupboard for a chap in the Sussex Sourdough Co-Operative which was prone to be a little bit frisky and liable to overflow without warning.

By now, feeling slightly nauseous in this sea of worthiness, I felt compelled to lower the tone and enquired, “I’m sorry, you’ve lost me. Are we still talking about the yeast – or the bloke?” but my scorching wit flew over her vapid head and crash landed; burnt and broken into tiny pieces – rather like her pastry, actually. Not that I’m being bitchy. Ahem.

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