From the Beehive

There's a new bakery in town (or at least new-ish) which doesn't use any unnecessary ingredients. When husband and I tried their bread for the first time we thought we'd found a little slice of heaven. No way was it possible that this amazing bread was DDA! However as the little slips of paper they tuck into every bag listing the ingredients show, at least their Great White and Honey Whole Wheat are made with zero dairy, eggs and oil.

My family gets together every Sunday morning. We have coffee together and pastries. We sit and chat. When we are done we all go off and do our shopping for the week. Yesterday, seeing this coming I decided husband and I would take a little drive in the opposite direction to Beehive Bread as they are not open on Sundays.

We walked in and when the girl asked us what we'd like I politely asked if the Challah was dairy and oil free. Husband had told me when he had previously gone to get bread they had been extremely nice about questions and dietary restrictions. This girl simply said with zero emotion, "I'd have to check the ingredients." I looked at her thinking, well this is not what I expected and said, "Could you? Please?" The girl headed back to their big recipe book and Husband turned to me innocently. "What kind of bread is Challah?" I replied quickly and without hesitation, "Egg. Ohhhhhh crap. We can't have that."

My first job was in a Jewish deli. I should have known that.

Husband called the girl back over, apologized and we explained. The girl remained emotionless throughout. We purchased our loaves of Great White and Honey Whole Wheat and left. When we got back into the car Husband commented on what I had been thinking earlier, "The other girls who worked there were MUCH nicer. She surprised me."

I kind of wanted to point out the girl all she would have had to do was to grab a loaf off the rack behind her and look at the card in the bag.