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Availability of the bread in the family
 

This question is strongly dependent on the social background, and the standard of living in which the person lived.

Our sample of 22 questioned people cannot in this case, decide between a significant degree ‘yes’ or ‘no’ of the answer given.

Anecdotes and proper experiments on the bread

Among the anecdotes we raise:

"At age of 8 years old (1948), I carried my meal while going to the school, meal especially made of bread. But I was not hungry and I threw it. It was a scandal when I was uncovered! "

"In pension with the college, the bread with the cornstarch was sometimes mildewed"

"A the countryside, it was often possible to manufacture bread in the furnaces of farms"

"During the war, the bread (white) was a greediness for me as a child. Today, it is more banal and it seems to me an essential element in a balanced food "

"Before one ate much more bread in the popular classes than one ate some even more downtown, and in the countryside, one had more meat to eat"

"the dry bread was used in an astute way: soaked in sweetened milk and fried, it was a treat as serves: it was the ‘pain perdu’ (lost bread) in Lyon.”

Role of the bread in the past (in the food)

The role of the bread in the food is pointed like significant in three fields:

1/ General Importance (without another precision)
2/ Nutritive Importance (slow sugar) and basic food
3/ Importance in childhood (1 answer)

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