Embroidered Wonder Bread

It's true; they don't call it Wonder Bread for nothing. A loaf of that stuff lasts at least a month longer than other breads.

This is so...strange. Interesting, though.

Very unusual, but fun.

That's the only fibre you'll find in Wonder Bread.

Wow, and I thought that crap was only good for cleaning up broken glass.

How about a more productive hobby?

Feed the hungry, save the world, etc...

Go for it, then, jill.

This strikes me as the kind of thing Howard Hughes might have done to while away the hours in his twilight years.

Because I have a few minutes to kill before I get on with my day, I'm going to expand on my response to jill.

First of all, here is a definition of the word hobby:
hobby n. , pl. , -bies . An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure.

Because a hobby is "pursued primarily for pleasure", this makes it a rather subjective concept. What is pleasurable for one person may seem dull, or a waste of time to another. Because this individual is not hurting anyone, it is not your place to dictate what she should be doing for pleasure in her spare time. It's her spare time, and not every moment of it needs to be occupied with feeding the hungry, or rather laughably, saving the world.

I don't know what you do in your spare time, jill, but seeing as you are commenting on a blog and criticizing how others use their spare time, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you are not using your every spare moment to help others. You're not helping anyone by commenting here, and your rather bitter comment on this woman's hobby is not making anyone rethink what they do in their spare time so much as it is making me at least, wonder who on earth you think you are.

More to the point - would I, or most people spend our spare time embroidering on bread, or embroidering at all? No. I personally find Ms. McEver's hobby bizarre. However, I recognize that it's not my business to tell her how she should spend her time. If she isn't stealing the materials for the projects that give her great pleasure to create and she can make herself or someone else smile with them, she is free to do as she wishes.

Furthermore, unless you know something about her that the rest of us don't, you have no idea what else Ms. McEver does with her life. She might volunteer at a soup kitchen ever Wednesday for all you know. If she doesn't, it's still not your place to criticize her. The fact is, while charity and doing for others is a worthy pursuit, it is not your place to tell people to do it. We live in a mostly free world and make our own choices, and those choices have nothing to do with you.

In the end, whether one chooses to help others or not, and a good number of us do in both big and small ways, throwing around an attitude of holier than thou criticism is not going to inspire anyone.

Huzza to Evilbeagle. As someone who was called a racist by jill for an earlier comment on another article I applaud your comments. People who live in glass houses... (it does work for cleaning up broken glass) :-)

Thanks, Timothy P. :)

Man, I thought I was weird.

@EB Bravo!

@Kalel that's 3!

(maybe jill works at The Oatmeal site)

Thanks, SparkS :)

I am curious as to whether this could be done on a baguette...

This puts my tortilla crochet to shame.

I never thought about using bread to pick up broken glass, but it makes a lot of sense. I can't stand white bread, but I keep some for the kids. It never goes bad (or at least any worse than it started out). It scares me.

The woman that embroidered the bread obviously has a sense of humour. Lighten up Evilbeagle and don't be so evil. It's taught me never to buy Wonder Bread - if it lasts 4 years it's obviously just a piece of preservative. yuk!

@EB - I guess it would be easier since the stiffness
might help. Then again that could be a liability.
What's the difference between French bread and Italian bread? Don't say one is sold in Paris and the other is sold in Rome!

@MC - Don't you use bread to remove a broken light bulb in a socket? Either that or a potato, I forget.

(turn the switch off first)

jacky, I don't have a problem with the woman who embroiders bread. :P

SparkS...LOL, I have no idea what the difference is supposed to be.
I think that the stiffness would make it easier unless it went too stale, come to think about it, because then it would be crunchy!

Having instruction and a degree in food science - one of my papers was on Wonderbread. Scintillating, I know huh?
Most breads if left out in an arrid environment and kept away from moisture will last very much like that.
So there is nothing creepy or odd about the way that bread lasts up to four years.

*high five to Evilbeagle

My odd art hobby since highschool has been chewed gum art. My latest experiment has been making them into little flowers.

*high five* to Frau

I'd love to see the chewed gum art. :)