"that" and bread

So, I have this rave bubbling inside of me today, plus the AADD is in overdrive. First I want to explain the title of this post by saying, I am no grammar/spelling/English language queen. There are words, however, in the English language given to driving me up the proverbial wall, "that" is one of them. Now here is where you should go click the title link to see for yourself the disgrace and know why I might want to go take a long soaking bubble bath to soothe my last nerve.

Normally, I read AlterNet every day. I subscribe to several of their feeds but today I am considering the cancellation of all my subscriptions, simply because of the writing in this article. The detested word is even in (assumption here) Alternet's editor's title description of the article! I just feel there is no sentence in the English language which would not be made better with the use of another word or by dropping the word completely from the sentence. I have other pet peeves but I'll leave those for another post.

Now on to the other rant. If you weren't living in the Gulf Coast region before Katrina then you won't get it. I am allergic to wheat so the only kind of bread I can eat is white bread. The cheaper it is and the more beaten to a pulp the wheat berry is in the making of such white bread the easier it is for me to tolerate, plus you can not make a tomato sandwich with any other kind of bread...it's just an abomination.

Before Katrina we had the most lovely white bread in the country. It was cheap and usually on sale for 79 cents a loaf. It was never more than a buck. It was so soft and airy you had to be really careful with it's packaging in the store and transportation home lest you get home with it so mushed it was totally inedible. It always had the front seat of the car even if there were other humans needing to get home. Before Katrina it was plentiful and my favorite was the Kroger brand "buttermilk" thin sandwich bread. In a pinch, I would usually go for Brookshires thin sandwich white bread.

After Katrina there was no bread of any kind for a month or so. When it did start trickling in, it was stale and has pretty much been stale ever since. Certainly not the quality we were used to. Now come on people, I understand that you might have had four weeks of bread backed up that you needed to unload on those of us desperate for bread, but three years?!?! On August 29th of this year it will have been three years since Katrina devastated us. Yesterday I went to the store to try to find a loaf of soft white bread...you can not imagine just how time-consuming this is. You used to be able to walk in and just feel a couple of loaves to find a suitable one, now you have to check out nearly every one and finally settle on the least offensive. All of this aggravation now costs me at least $1.29 a loaf and I have seen it close to $2! for a loaf of white bread...gimmee a break! If the crust on top is not hard then you have to be sure to check out the bottom because it might be. This phenomenon can only be caused by sitting in storage for way too long, which means we are still getting the backup supply. How about this...take a couple of months worth and give it to the zoo or somewhere to feed the birds or other critters. Then maybe we can have a decent tomato sandwich before summer is over. Besides I am getting a little sick of friggin' toast!