Poll: What's the best bread?

This is too hard a question. It depends on what I want the bread for. If I'm just eating a piece of bread and butter it is probably Challah. For a Pastrami Sandwich I want Rye or Cornbread. Not the yellow stuff, the Jewish Cornbread which is a lot like rye. I like my peanut butter on multi-grain. You have to throw in pumpernickle somewhere too.

I never knew there was such a thing as "Jewish Cornbread."

Are you just mocking us silly gentiles?

I would never mock the Gentiles. I just don't know what else to call it. It is the Corn Bread you buy at Jewish Bakeries that is not made from corn. I have some in the house right now. Yum.

How can it be corn bread if it's not made from corn??? :)

Remember corn originally meant any grain.

Here is a recipe for "Jewish Corn Bread". It seems that I'm not the only one that calls it that.

In general I'm partial to french bread, though for toast and sandwhiches white honey bread is wonderful. Navaho fried bread is also rather delish.

Oh, man. I'm convinced that frybread is one of the reasons diabetes is so common amongst people of Native American Ancestry. :-D So good, and so terrible all at the same time.

That totally should have been a choice.

Didn't occur to me. Never met a person who didn't like SOME form of bread! :) (people who can't eat most? yeah, but there's usually something...)

I was just making the pun, I love nan bread.

oh, heh! didn't even notice the spelling.� Never heard of it. :)

I am so dense today.

You haven't had naan? You are SO coming to India House with us some time.

What's it taste like?

How to describe... it's a leavened flat bread made from flour and it's REALLY tasty with butter.

There's also poori, which is an unleavened wheat bread that is deep fried. OMFG.

I don't know if you like Indian food, but it's worth it to go just for the bread.

Yeah I suspect I wouldn't be keen on Indian food. But...I've never shied away from just eatng a pile of bread. :)

You might be surprised. There are some things that I absolutely love.

Probably some things, yeah. Anything with curry I think is out though because the smell of it makes me ill.

The hard part about discovering new foods is...it's hard to shell out money for something you may end up hating. :)� Need a buffet! :)

Oh, man, I forgot about Indian breads. My vote is changed to Chapati.

So we can just order a bunch of a different stuff and you can try it. And meanwhile, you have bread. :)

since we're on the subject of puns . . . . .and bread . . . .

We're really hurting for poll topics. Bread?




. . . multi-grain. I need the fiber.

I like food polls. :) Taste is a fascinating subject for me.

Flax seed bread - nummy. :)

A nice sourdough baguette that is warm and toasty will just make me all sorts of happy. Though any type of crusty baguette will do that to me. This is why I love getting soup at places like Panera, cause it comes with a hunk of baugette...mmmmm...

omg, panera's french baguette rocks my socks.

the challah we get at the j is ridiculously good.

basically, bread. bread bread bread bread bread.

The "fun" thing about being poorish (especially before we got teh interwebs at the new place) is going to Panera to waste an afternoon, and just ordering a big ol' french baguette and some hot tea, then spending the afternoon munching good bread, drinking tea (yaye for refills on that), and sitting on the wireless internet.

i've been into flax bread for awhile now, in a rye base.

and i recently tried making spelt and that was really tasty, but i need to give it another go with a few tweaks :)

but really, any bread that's still warm from the oven with a slab of butter on it. *heaven*

I never realized rye was so popular!

yeah but only when you can drink it :D

I love bread and had the idea for a bread restaurant. All that would be served is a large varity of freshly baked breads and spreads. The most popular breads would be served every day and the others would be daily specials.

I think it's called a bakery. :)

Reminds me of Panera *yum*.

I just came out with a name for it: The House of Pain.

I would so go there. :)

.oO to the house of paaaaaaaaaaiiiin Oo. /boingo

That's usually a kinda bad idea.

They opened a restaurant here in town that only. sold. rice. pudding.

That's it.

Needless to say, they're now closed. :)

I like the idea, LOVE the name.

I'm fairly certain that the rice pudding store in NYC, Rice to Riches, is still open.

They are and they have a
fancy schmancy website. Watch the introductory animation. Then watch the animations in the "Vibe" section. Somebody there was having too much fun.

hmm.. yeah, I'd imagine a intensely niche concept like that would actually work in a big city.

not so much in a small town. ;D

since i was knee high to a grasshopper, i could eat a whole loaf of that fabulous stuff by myself. the only other thing that comes close in my mind is amish friendship bread, but i think of that as more a dessert like thing, so they don't stay in the same arena in my mind.

AND just to be true to my heritage, guess i have to shout out for the dutch potato bread too. bestest for sammiches.

...irish soda bread in the oven.
a yeasty type one takes too laong at this hour :)

I've rarely met a bread I didn't like.

I think Jan's answer is the best one I have seen so far and the closest to my own feelings on the subject. I voted for sourdough mostly because I have a nice big round of it sitting downstairs calling my name.

amen, janmom :)

That could change. Ever hear the story of how raison bread was invented?

No, I haven't, but I'm sure you'll share with us its . . . "raison d'etre?"

Strangely enough I can't find this anywhere on the web even though I've heard the story from multiple sources off the bread. It sounds like a possible Urban Legand. With those qualifiers...

The Tsar of Russia was looked in his bread and saw what he thought was a roach, it actually was a roach, or some bug. He was outraged and called the baker who thought quickly and said, "no it is a raisin." And so he was forced to invent raisin bread.

Man, thank goodness there's finally a reason for me to hate raisin bread the way I do. And that reason is cockroaches.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I thought the question a good one, however.

I don't even know her nickel!!!