Ideal Bread
Years ago when I was a kid living in Paris, Texas, I can remember the delightful smell coming from the Ideal Bakery. If you were within a few blocks area of the bakery you could smell that yeasty, delicious odor of the baking bread.You could buy a package of the dough and take it home and bake it yourself. It would smell good but not like the smell you got from the bakery itself.
I can remember that the freshest loaf of bread that was just taken from the oven and barely allowed to cool would be so soft and was the best bread I have ever eaten. I never get bread that fresh anymore. Even if you get the latest delivery of bread it is never as soft and good as I can remember Ideal Bread being. I keep going back to the change of taste theory, but maybe that is applicable here also.
The price difference is a big one. I think bread used to be probably about 10 cents a loaf and now it is close to $2.00. So we are paying $2.00 for what we used to get for 10 cents and it isn't as fresh or as good smelling as it was then. Bummer!
posted by kyra lafain @ 5/29/2008 12:30:00 PM
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I miss Ideal Bakery, too. It burned down 15 or 20 years ago, and they decided not to build it back. Just about every year, our Girl Scout troop took a tour of the bakery, and they always gave us a loaf of bread and a goody bag with pencils, notepads, and assorted other little items. But absolutely nothing could compare to smelling that bread baking! We have a Sara Lee plant here now, and when they do cinnamon rolls, you can smell it for miles, but it still just isn't the same.
My husband and his family used to own the Ideal Bakery in Paris and else where. I ran across your blog re: Ideal Bread while I was searching for one of the old Ideal Bread signs to give him as a gift. I have seen these signs at East Texas restuarants but they arent for sale. Know where I can find one?????
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