Someone I know needs to know something!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

My other half has just had a smoke and has asked me a question I don't know the answer to. Do you? The question was - why is thick white sliced bread more expensive than thin sliced white? Be as derogatory and off post as you like with your answers. Please.

[t8yman]

it isnt. I sell bread, and I can get it in 5 different slice sizes. all are identical in price. its an 800gm loaf. if your local shop is selling thick at a higher price, they are ripping people off.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Thanks t8man but her indoors has said that I've expressed her question wrongly. She is saying that why do supermarket chains sell thick sliced white and thin sliced white but the thick is more expensive than the thin? She insists on shouting in my ear that she doesn't buy either of them. Lord have mercy on us all!

[The Nal]

Bread companies are notorious c**ts. Worse than oil companies, banks and Jimmy fucking Saville that lot.

T8yman - Are you a "breadsman"?

Reason I ask, been dreaming about winning the lotto recently (I really must start doing it) and have been thinking about the types of people I could employ. My own personal balloonist for example. For all my ballooning needs.

Ian.

Ian the balloonist.

[Ed209]

two reasons immediately spring to mind.

1. The more slices it has, the more effort it takes to cut those slices, hence the more it costs. Not slicing bread at all should be cheaper than if you wanted your bread sliced into tiny tiny little wafer thin slices. Draw a graph and a straight line between the two. There's your answer.

2. People who eat thin sliced bread are, in my experience, tossers and deserve to pay more

In fact, can you give me a good reason why the should cost the same? Are you telling me I should subsidise the fucking thin slice brigade?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

two reasons immediately spring to mind.

1. The more slices it has, the more effort it takes to cut those slices, hence the more it costs. Not slicing bread at all should be cheaper than if you wanted your bread sliced into tiny tiny little wafer thin slices. Draw a graph and a straight line between the two. There's your answer.

2. People who eat thin sliced bread are, in my experience, tossers and deserve to pay more

In fact, can you give me a good reason why the should cost the same? Are you telling me I should subsidise the fucking thin slice brigade?

[kaosmark2]

two reasons immediately spring to mind.

1. The more slices it has, the more effort it takes to cut those slices, hence the more it costs. Not slicing bread at all should be cheaper than if you wanted your bread sliced into tiny tiny little wafer thin slices. Draw a graph and a straight line between the two. There's your answer.

2. People who eat thin sliced bread are, in my experience, tossers and deserve to pay more

In fact, can you give me a good reason why the should cost the same? Are you telling me I should subsidise the fucking thin slice brigade?

[Ed209]

well my world's just been turned on its head.

that is a fucking disgrace

[kaosmark2]

Personally, I buy bread from bakeries rather than that pre-sliced bollocks. It means I can cut myself nice thick pieces that suit me.

[mr gumby]

Surely with a thick sliced loaf, you get more bread in each slice, so each slice should cost more, but you get fewer slices, so it should work out the same? Fuck, my brain hurts!

Wait! I think I know. With a thick sliced loaf, a knife is going through it fewer times than a thin sliced loaf, so you're losing less bread through 'crumbage', therefore you're left with more bread in the finished loaf, so it should cost more!

[Ed209]

Wait! I think I know. With a thick sliced loaf, a knife is going through it fewer times than a thin sliced loaf, so you're losing less bread through 'crumbage', therefore you're left with more bread in the finished loaf, so it should cost more!

[Ed209]

p.s., just checked Tesco, their's is the same price

every little helps

Edit:

so is Sainsbury's

I guess they are making life taste better

Yoghurt, where is this your shopping? And stop immediately

Edited October 22, 2012 by Ed209

[mr gumby]

Glad I'm useful for something!

[mr gumby]

p.s., just checked Tesco, their's is the same price

every little helps

Edit:

so is Sainsbury's

I guess they are making life taste better

Yoghurt, where is this your shopping? And stop immediately

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

She now admits to knowing it was the crumbs cost all along. Apparently it's what the supermarkets do with those crumbs that's disgusting. Apparently they force feed Coeliacs with them.

[grumpyhack]

Boring answer maybe but we bake our own. We've got a very old bread making machine (a real machine - not Mrs GH) but cheaper than buying and you know what goes in it. Slices start thin but as you are getting to the end of the loaf it's not so easy and the slices get a bit erratic.

[Zeppel Inn]

name='Yoghurt on a Stick' timestamp='1350934919' post='3854221']

My other half has just had a smoke and has asked me a question I don't know the answer to. Do you? The question was - why is thick white sliced bread more expensive than thin sliced white? Be as derogatory and off post as you like with your answers. Please.

Edited October 23, 2012 by Zeppel Inn

[t8yman]

An 800gm loaf goes through a cutting grid. the grid is spaced for thick or medium or thin - end of. the only reasonable argument would be that the thin cutter has more blades and they need replacing at a greater rate than the thick cutter.

when I buy my bread, it is based on the slice count per loaf. 16+2 means 16 slices and 2 crusts. 18+2 is 18 slices and 2 crusts and therefore thinner than the 16+2.

the "per slice" cost is lower on the thinner loaf, but we dont buy bread by the slice do we?

sorry for the highly irresponsible "sensible" answer of the thread.

[Essex_George]

Boring answer maybe but we bake our own. We've got a very old bread making machine (a real machine - not Mrs GH) but cheaper than buying and you know what goes in it. Slices start thin but as you are getting to the end of the loaf it's not so easy and the slices get a bit erratic.

[fred quimby]

YOaS - Tell your lady not to worry about size, it's what you do with it that counts.

Or something like that

Edited October 23, 2012 by fred quimby

[kaosmark2]

An 800gm loaf goes through a cutting grid. the grid is spaced for thick or medium or thin - end of. the only reasonable argument would be that the thin cutter has more blades and they need replacing at a greater rate than the thick cutter.

when I buy my bread, it is based on the slice count per loaf. 16+2 means 16 slices and 2 crusts. 18+2 is 18 slices and 2 crusts and therefore thinner than the 16+2.

the "per slice" cost is lower on the thinner loaf, but we dont buy bread by the slice do we?

sorry for the highly irresponsible "sensible" answer of the thread.

[Ed209]

Crusts are better though.

[gary1979666]

Maybe it just costs more for them to print THICK rather than THIN - that extra letter must be bumping up the cost of the loaf!

[kaosmark2]

And I thought I liked you

You can fuck off with the thin slice brigade

[Krazypinkminx]

Well I like it medium