When you were a kid, did you eat white or wheat bread.

[texanwitch]

I had both but liked wheat better,except if it was homemade.

[pscot]

1. Wonderbread and Spam

with mayo. Ma was really into nutrition.

[rurallib]

20. made america what it is today!

[hlthe2b]

2. When very young, that gawd awful white "WONDER" bread....

But soon, Mom discovered whole wheat bread (Roman Meal, I think) and I never ate that other stuff again.

[texanwitch]

5. Roman meal bread, good stuff.

I was about the only kid eating wheat bread in school.

[hlthe2b]

8. Yeah, Mom gets kudos for that, but I think she love to smear it with cheez-whiz...LOL

Though I read somewhere that early on, the formulation of Cheez-whiz was basically cheese... It surely isn't now, but more cheese-flavored fake oil/whey product:

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/03/09/michael-moss-the-day-they-took-the-cheese-out-of-cheez-whiz/

[Major Nikon]

3. Yes

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. Roman Meal

...so, None of the Above.

[hlthe2b]

6. Multi-grain, but still contains whole wheat.

[Jeff R]

7. White

As a child, dark bread of all types from college on. Heck now white bread as a last resort.

[OriginalGeek]

47. me too

hated wheat bread until I actually tried it when I got older...lol

Now wheat is my preference for everything except tortillas. Haven't had a good wheat tortilla yet.

[Jeff R]

49. Tortillas

Even in Mexico and US border states I never found one that tasted right.

[Ron Obvious]

9. Brown bread, as dark as you can find it short of rye bread

I never liked the taste of white bread.

[femmocrat]

10. Wonder Bread, mostly. I also remember "Bunny Bread"!

I never ate wheat bread until I was an adult and bought my own.

[Arkansas Granny]

33. We also ate a lot of Bunny Bread.

Ours came from the Junge bakery in Joplin, MO.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Wonder Bread. It was about all you could get back in the Pleistocene era

when I was a kid. Still remember the wrapper with the polka dots. And you could sort of smoosh the bread into all kinds of shapes.

[LiberalEsto]

12. Rye and pumpernickel

My parents came from Estonia. They didn't allow us to eat white bread. They relaxed the rule sometimes for the marvelous Italian bread sold in Paterson, NJ.

[tavernier]

18. Ditto

Same with us Latvians. But I used to hang out with the next door neighbor kids because they got PB&J on Wonder Bread with a Kool Aid chaser. mmm... that was heaven to me.

[LiberalEsto]

38. My mom brainwashed me about white bread

especially Wonder Bread. She said it contained no nutrition and was bad for the teeth. I tried it once or twice at a neighbor's house, but was not impressed. I did like raisin bread with cream cheese, another "American" thing discovered in the school lunchroom.

Now Kool-Aid... that's another story.

Sveiks!

PS - will you celebrate Jaani?

[tavernier]

41. Ligo!

Of course!

[LWolf]

13. Wonderbread.

I didn't eat wheat bread until I could supply it for myself. I never went back. These days I eat sprouted-grain bread or whole-grain bread.

[JBoy]

14. Started off with white, switched to brown when I was about 12.

For a couple of years during the transition we got sandwiches with one slice of white and one slice of brown.

[In_The_Wind]

15. White bread. These days I rarely touch the stuff unless it's a roll.

[magical thyme]

16. wonderbread, with peanut butter and marshmallow.

another nutrition-conscious mother.

[benld74]

17. White bread and on Sunday's we would get a loaf of fresh Italian from the bakery,

down on the corner. Mmmm, still hot, I can still smell it.

Now its wheat, 15 grain or better. Or fresh corn tortillas.

The thing is, our teen, never had white bread growing up. We always gave her wheat, just like we ate. She has a touch of gluten intolerance now. Dont know if the early wheat hurt or not.

[loli phabay]

19. favourite was a bread made from nuts ground and leached with red clay

Thick and heavy. Also loved the heavy peasants bread, black and slathered with honey or soaked in milk.

[rurallib]

21. didn't even know there was anything but white until I was 16

haven't eaten white since.

[Kali]

22. white

"store-bought" - luxury as was store-bought jam and cake (I still like the cakes)

[one_voice]

23. White occasionally...

that was mostly when we ran out and had to run to 7-11. Otherwise Roman Meal...still love that bread.

[KG]

24. large family. lots of PB+J on white bread.

[ConcernedCanuk]

39. 6 kids, so same thing, Peanut Butter and Jam/Jelly on white was a staple.

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every now and then we'd have raisin bread - a special treat - and a round loaf!

Also, mom fed us gang what she called "Bacon Bunnies" for a snack.

White bread with cheese on it, and bacon slices on top done in the oven under the broiler.

That was yummy!

CC

[Paulie]

25. Butternut Large

And on rare occasions Beefsteak Rye.

[Llewlladdwr]

26. White bread FTW!

Mrs Baird's or ButterKrust...still don't eat wheat unless there's absolutely nothing else. One of my vices....

[pipi_k]

27. Mostly

white bread (Wonder) and Bond Bread, which was made in a bakery near where I lived before the age of ten. I used to love walking/riding past it.

Occasionally we would have Rye bread also.

And then there was that totally disgusting thing known as Brown Bread that came in a can and was served on a Saturday night with hotdogs and beans. God, that stuff was putrid. Just plain nasty.

[Bertha Venation]

28. white -- the very cheapest

PB and Welch's, but sometimes bologna.

[Generic Brad]

29. I thought there were only three kinds of bread

Wonder, Tastee, and pumpernickel.

[orleans]

30. wonder bread and holsum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holsum_Bread

[olddots]

31. seems we were'nt alloawed to have anything other people had

couldn't have Wonder bread or Bunny bread only healthy bread ,damn I wanted to be like everyone else but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !

[Tom Kitten]

32. We couldn't afford bread when I was a kid, so we ate cake!

Just kidding...Pretty much like others here, earliest memories are of Wonder Bread, switched to Roman Meal around 12 years old (must have been the commercials), later liked dark rye and toasted French bread...

Weird thinking back to those days...I remember I didn't like pizza or cheese but liked green vegetables like broccoli and peas...and sometimes my mom would make us Boston B&M baked bean sandwiches with mayonnaise on Wonder Bread and I liked them. Nowadays I like pizza, cheese is OK still love greens (except lettuce not so much) but hate baked beans!

[LeftofObama]

34. White bread.

Always white bread. Now, I rarely touch the stuff.

[hobbit709]

35. I ate real bread, not that stuff I call carp bait.

[datasuspect]

36. we were lucky if we even ate

let alone having bread choices or preferences.

[Arcanetrance]

37. Rye and pumpernickel

My dad ate all his sandwiches on it and so thats what i ate and for the most part still do save for the occasional loaves of italian bread I decide to bake

[Still Blue in PDX]

40. White at home, Roman Meal at my best friend's house.

My dad was a very white bread kinda guy and a control freak, so we never had anything exotic (like vegetables other than from a can), although my momma had a garden and would cook up pots of mysterious Southern food for herself.

[RILib]

42. Wonder bread

[graham4anything]

43. Wonderbread and Rye bread. Did whole wheat exist back then? LOL

and later those packages of little rolls (think 36 in a metal tin packed like a loaf of bread),
Now I don't eat bread since my wellness program the last year

[madrchsod]

44. fresh white bread right from the oven

my mom worked at a commercial bread company.....

[tabbycat31]

45. mostly wheat

My parents always bought the 'diet' bread and they typically taste like cardboard.

I went behind their backs and had white bread at every opportunity possible. It's softer and I prefer the soft texture. To this day I'm not too crazy about wheat bread unless it's homemade. I don't llike the grainy texture.

[csziggy]

46. White bread - wheat was for Eastern Europeans and other subversives

In the 50s and 60s "real" Americans ate white bread, or maybe rye for corned beef or pastrami sandwiches.

Of course, I grew up in a small Florida town and never saw anything as exotic as a bagel until I went off to college.

[Arugula Latte]

48. Similar story. Wonderbread in the 60s/70s and then a transition to wheat.

My sister and I used to love to squish the Wonderbread into little balls.

I'm trying to cut down on my bread intake in general, but I do love me a nice piece of sourdough. You can take the girl out of San Francisco ...

[HappyMe]

50. Butternut white bread,

Roman Meal and Beefsteak Rye.

[Broken_Hero]

51. I'd say 99% white, nt

[applegrove]

52. We only had whole wheat bread unless

it was Saturdays, at the cottage, in the summer. Then we'd have french bread.

[laundry_queen]

53. White

until I was a teen, then it was 60% whole wheat. As an adult I mostly ate 100% whole wheat, and tried other varieties like rye, flax, sprouted grain, etc. Recently we've started eating white bread again. Something about whole wheat gives me wicked heartburn while white doesn't. I don't get it. Rye is okay too, and I prefer it, but my kids don't and I eat bread so rarely that it sometimes goes bad (even if I keep it in the freezer - then it gets freezer burnt). So, the white bread gets eaten. I've read the nutrition labels and unless you buy the expensive stuff, there's not a big difference in nutritional/fibre content between white and whole wheat.

[life long demo]

54. White wonder bread only as a child

I haven't eaten white bread for many, many decades. Whole wheat only.