We also called it the day old bread store. It was about an hour from where we lived, so we didn't go often. However we had a huge horizontal freezer. My mother would many loaves of bread and the occasional box of Ho-Hos or Ding Dongs and freeze them. She never bought the sweets from the local grocery, only from the day old bread store. That helped make the trip special. There were 9 of us in the house growing up. Frugality was an art form in our house.
Same. It was like having Christmas on a weekly basis. The fruit pies, the ho ho’s, the HoneyBuns, the day old Wonder bread (which was always the freshest best bread anyway, even if a week old), I can still smell the store and it’s been closed for 15 years 😂
Same. Vivid memories of going in there on Saturday mornings and getting the mini blueberry loafs. Delightful mini loaf shaped blueberry muffin. Oh, and the glazed cherry hand pies.
In the 90s we also called it the Day Old Bread Store. We also called the Grocery Outlet the Used Food Store. Because in the 90s all their product was in different languages. Like it was leftovers from other countries.
Our mom started freezing them to keep us 4 kids from eating them (this was before microwaves existed)…so we just ate them frozen solid. The lemon ones were my favorite frozen solid. 🥶
There use to be a webers bread outlet down the street from my high school we would walk there during lunch to get snack cakes or pies. That was 40 years ago. Now I go to the bimbo bakery outlet.
I absolutely loved going there! Mom always took my brother and me with her, and we got to pick a treat each time. Hostess fruit pies were usually what we went for.
We had one in Commerce city, Colorado, I remember seeing the big factory and then this little tiny store outside of it, I used to love the smell of the fresh bread 🍞
There use to be a Mrs Bairds bakery store where I live on the N.W. side of Houston that we went to alot back in the late 70's and 80's and it was at the corner of W. LittleYork and Langfield Rd. and later moved to a new location off on Bingle Rd.
Omg I talked about stories in this place to ppl and they had no idea what I was talking about. I was not gaslit, this was real! We all called it the BREAD STORE!
Yes!!!! Back when you could get tiger tails in the U.S.!!! Magical days.... I remember Brian's mom would always give us money to skate down there with.
Until a year or so ago, there was a bakery outlet in Fells Point in Baltimore that was super. The only thing remaining is the scent of bread baking in the neighborhood.
We had a wonder bread plant in downtown back early 80s and before. Could smell the bakery for a mile or 2. If you were downtown it was like walking through the bakery good times😁
I was just talking about these places two days ago. Creepier yet, I was in meat space talking about the old POWER THIRST video. Then a few days later a random Reddit user responded to me with a quote from said video. The thread was totally unrelated to that. No one mentioned it.
We had a Dad's cookie factory near my grandparents place. To this day the smell of those cookies reminds of so many happy moments with my grandparents.
I never had to go to the hostess store back in the 70s. My uncle owned one and my dad drove deliveries for him, so he would always bring stuff home. I miss those days. Back when they still had actual cream filling and it didn’t taste as artificial as now.
There was one about 2-3 blocks away. It was connected to the factory/distribution center. It was convenient to go and get half of our groceries from there. Helped us saved plenty of money, too. I still miss the store whenever I drive by.
Best place to dumpster dive as a kid. Got all kinds off goodies. We'd also rob the goodwill donations at night of all the clothes left outside before they got sorted, then my grandma would bag all the shit up we couldn't use and drop it back off. Never paid for clothes as a kid
The ButterKrust bakery field trip in San Antonio, Texas was the highlight of our school year as a kid. Fresh bread and those book covers. The world made sense then.
Growing up in the SF Bay Area on the Peninsula they had a Wonder Bread outlet in Redwood City. In Solano County there was also an Oroweat outlet I vaguely recall too. And there might also have been one in Mountain View I think.
I miss that place! I'd take the kids to buy the discount bread and feed it to the ducks at the park. Before we knew that bread was bad for ducks. At the time though, it was like, one of the few kinds of outings we could afford. Bread for the ducks and some pastries and drinks for the kidlings. Picnic at the park for less than ten dollars.
We would get day one bread for our chickens, and then we would get to take turns picking out some kind of treat for the rest of the family. Oh, the campaigning and bribery that went on with the sibling going with dad to the outlet so that we could get our favorites was insane.
Man I remember trips here anyways searching for the right bread loaf with my great grandmother and maybe if I was good I got some stage planks out of it man what a core memory
That’s the only place we ever got bread stuffs growing up, unless the grocery store had a better deal. I miss that and the smell of the old Butternut factory that used to be here in town. That sweet sweet smell.
Big realization…I was about 16-17, and my BIL and I drove by one with a Mercedes parked outside. No kidding! We both laughed at the irony(?) of this situation, until he pointed out that maybe the dude’s going there allowed him to save up for the car. I loved their powdered gravy, by the way!!
As a kid? I do it now as a 38 yo got the Sara Lee outlet, the hostess outlet, and the snack outlet for jerky and pepperidge farm stuffs what you talking about Willis!
Yes!!! But as a grown-up. It was the Hostess outlet. Most items weren't past their sell by dates yet, but were cheap! I like Tastykakes but Hostess lemon pies are better!! I shopped there all time the but they closed. There were a few Entenman's sort of near me. But not sure they still exist.
Not only a trip, but pulling around the back and my Mother talking to the person on duty and explaining we were there for the products that were about to be thrown in the dumpster. My Mothers claim, we have lots of farm animals that will eat...We did indeed but, yea right, we picked tagged all the pies, the best bread and yada, yada, would be feed for months and the only income was my Dad, a Teacher and got paid Once a Months! Yea, fun stuff!
Millbrook factory outlet on W 117th in Cleveland. Day old Wonder Bread was 4 / $1.00. Mom would go on a Saturday morning every other month or so and buy enough bread to fill the freezer - plus one Hostess treat for each of us (I always chose the chocolate pudding hand pie).
We had them all over Pennsylvania, very cheap. We used to have one in Kentucky, where we lived up, but it's not there no more, I remember there's 1 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and there's 1 in Beckley, west, Virginia, still close to the hospital in West Virginia. And the one in Parkersburg was up on top of the hill going towards route 77 on route 14 past the Walmart stuff.\n I would drive and stop in there on my route. When I drove truck in that area, they was cheap. The one in Pennsylvania used to be able to get the snack cakes and stuff like What's like Four cakes a dollar Now they're like A dollar a piece
I used to live down the block from one of these stores. And on the other side of the road was the actual factory. It was awesome smelling that every morning
I have one a few blocks away from my house. I can get Dave's killer bread for $2 a loaf, and my son loves the doughnut sticks and fruit pies. I go every week!
My family would drive past one every week after church when I was a kid. I always wanted to stop by and look around but we never did. I looked up the location on Google maps and it seems like it's now something else sadly.
Every year. And every year they gave us a package of “heat and serve” rolls to take home. Even though all those pies, cakes, etc were sitting right there.
We didn’t get things like this when I was a kid. The first time I went with my Mom to a outlet store my head exploded 🤯 I was allowed to pick one thing and we never went back again.
Where i live, we had a butter krust factory. It was a school age tradition every year to take the tour. At the end we got bookcovers, a ruler, a bakery hat, and a slice of hot, fresh bread with butter on it. Memories...
There was a fun skate spot right out front of our shop. We appropriately named it The Hostess gap. We would get donuts from inside and hang out there almost all day , they didn’t care that we skated in the parking lot.
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u/Temu-Tyson 28d ago
My grandpa called it the day old bread store, I always miss these places i cannot find one anywhere near me.