It appears that redditor infeKteDx never paid attention to any grocery shopping his family did. Now he is on his own and is totally overwhelmed by the simple task of purchasing bread. The resulting thread is priceless, with suggestions like calling his mom to find out what bread to buy, plus recommendations for different breads to try. Link

No matter how much you teach a child, there is something that will surprise him when he is on his own. For example, you can teach a teenager to drive safely, but if he never paid attention to how roads are laid out, he’ll never find his way home. The first day I was in my college laundry room, I met two girls who had no idea how to wash their clothes because they had never done it. Is there something that you never happened to learn from your family that surprised you when you left home?

From what I’ve been able to piece together from a commenter at 9GAG and a few travel books, there’s a bar called The Real McCoy in the Barrikadnaya neighborhood of Moscow that sells vodka bottle loaves like this. It has all of the components of a complete and nutritious breakfast.

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SandeeA. is nothing if not an inventive cook. We’ve previously featured her use of a banana peel as a jello mold. Now she’s figured out a way to make a yeast bread in the shape of adorable little teddy bears. She informs us that the eyes and mouths were made with an edible ink pen, which can be easily found in pastry supply stores.

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Well, they ain't the world's largest bra but these buns from Danish baker Kohberg are doing their part in fighting breast cancer. Part of the profit from the sale of bread with this clever package design by Envision go to benefit The Danish Cancer Society.

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This might look like a crime scene photo, or something out of Dahmer’s personal collection, but believe it or not these amazing body part sculptures are made entirely out of bread. Created by Thai baker/sculptor Kittiwat Unarrom, these gruesome looking pieces blur the line between art and food, and it takes a lot of nerve to bite into a loaf of bread that looks like a corpse! Follow the link to DesignTaxi to see a short vid and many more examples of these morbid food sculptures.

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Terry Border of Bent Objects presents his “first good sized” animation. It’s a love story! Link -via Everlasting Blort

Previously: An interview with Terry Border.

As Google Translate renders the Japanese-language text, these little bread birds can be found at the LaLaport shopping mall in Tokyo. I don’t know if I want to eat one or put it on display.

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Your eyes don’t deceive you – that is a giant toaster made of toast. Artists Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre, AKA FA+, created a huge mural using 2,500 pieces of bread heated at various lengths of time in the toaster to produce the color variation needed to represent the appliance. It took them two days and the help of a bunch of their toaster-owning friends.

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Ever wonder what the colors of the tie tags on loaves of bread represent? They’re a code designating the day of the week on which a loaf was baked:

* Blue: Monday
* Green: Tuesday
* Red: Thursday
* White: Friday
* Yellow: Saturday[...]

An easy way to remember it, though, is to simply recall the alphabet. The colors run in alphabetical order, so the earlier they appear in the alphabet, the earlier in the week the bread was baked. And it’s true. Even the ever-cynical Snopes.com backs it up.

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The record-breaking naan was 10ft by 4ft and has a total area of 40 sq ft – the equivalent of 167 normal size naan breads – and took bakers over five hours to make and 8 staff to carry.

The beast of breads was made using an authentic naan recipe including yoghurt, ghee and Kalonji seeds and weighing more than 40kg and cooked in a specialist tandoori-style oven with the capacity to cook an authentic bread of such magnitude.

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If you’ve got to revive old bread, stat, you’ll need the right tool: the Toast/E/R toaster defibrillator from designer Shay Carmon: Link | Shay’s website – via Nerd Approved

Catherine McEver has lately been embroidering slices of bread.

How do you embroider Wonder Bread? Very, very carefully. How long do they last? I have a couple of slices that are over four years old that look just like new.

More examples at the link.

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Photo: Dalia Birske

Martynas Birskys of the Vilnius-based design studio DaDaDa sells slippers made out of bread. For your comfort, you can select from various sizes and grains. It’s hard to argue with his sales pitch “eatable…dries itself… made from bread…first in fashion…needs no pressing…feels good in dry climate …won’t sag.”

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Like many products appearing on high fashion runways, these one-of-a-kind products are not very practical — other than the fact that they can be eaten. The French-language video above shows many of the items available at a 2004 exhibition by fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. At the time, Suzy Menkes wrote in The New York Times:

Surrounded by crinolines and corset dresses sculpted out of wickerwork (think bread basket) and stuffed with round and shapely loaves, the French designer emphasized the finesse it had taken to create the show at the Cartier Foundation for contemporary art (until Oct. 10). The exhibition includes a sculpted dress with two brioches to create Gaultier’s famous pointed-bosom gown for Madonna and a Kelly bag, lovingly shaped and baked, to celebrate his current role as designer for Hermès. Add umbrellas, hats and the signature matelot stripes re-created with inky dye.

Link via Urlesque (where there are pictures of clothes made out of chocolate) | Designer’s Website

Mohammad Sohail, a Long Island convenience store owner confronted by a bat-wielding would-be robber said Tuesday he decided to show mercy on the man after he collapsed in tears claiming he was only committing the crime to support his starving family.

Instead of getting loot from a stickup, the store owner provided the man with $40 and a loaf of bread, but only if he promised never to rob again.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by dradell.

This is why you don’t give bread to the deer in Japan. It’s very cute though.

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