this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
445 points (95.9% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
31556 readers
4235 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I have never in my entire life seen an actual bread box, I thought they were a thing from England or something
English here. Anyone I know with a bread box use it in combination with one of the others. I have one, so we’re Bread Box + Twist and Tuck.
My grandma used one. Personally I think the real function was to keep mice from eating your bread, but that hasn't been a problem for a long time.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know-history/did-you-know-breadboxes-really-did-help-keep-bread-fresh
To be fair, you originally said, "the real reason," but have just listed three different equal reasons.
Bread can't go stale if the mice keep eating it. There's an order of operations here.
Mice are still a thing, dude.
People are so privileged and they don't even know it. Every place I have lived I have had to catch mice, and we're not messy with food and don't leave stuff out. We don't kill them either. We just can't afford to live in some new-ass house or apartment, and we're above median income.
Houses tend to be built tighter so mice can't get in as easy as it was when we had old drafty log cabins, dude.
Oh good, then I can tell the ones in my basement my house is built too recently for them.
I saw a dead mouse at work two hours ago. Mouse traps, bait, and poison are still sold in grocery and hardware stores. You are just wrong.
Hmm other factors: Traps and poison to keep the population down. Amazing. City ordinances to keep trash levels down and thus mice populations down. Incredible. A refrigerator to keep your bread in. Lasereyes.jpg
It's not if mice still exist lmao, it's whether we still need breadboxes to stop them eating our bread. Since you are so insistent on moving the goalposts I'll leave you to have your last rage comment. Ciao.
Look at this guy, living in a house less than 70 years old.
I'd think most things post WW2 would be pretty good if kept up and neighbors kept up. Probably even older if they went through checking for gaps and air leaks. Neighbors play a role, if there's a mice outbreak they'll find more weaknesses.
Also we have fridges now. Yes you might argue to not put bread in the fridge but if mice are eating it you'd probably do it pretty quick.
How else to store real bread?
So not just the sandwich/toast bread, that comes in plastic bags, but real bread, with a crust and in plastic wrap it would lose its crust, but without any protection, it dries out.
It's a delicate balance act, where paper and a bread box seem to work best
I think most people just leave it in the plastic bag, but personally I have a bread bag that breathes so the crust doesn't become spongey
Same, my mom said I should get one when I moved out but we didn't even have one at home?? 😭
She probably is just afraid you will leave the bag open and then eat moldy bread.
Open bag will just dry out, it'll get moldy quicker with a sealed bag
I'd see myself leaving a bread box open faster than the plastic bag the bread comes in tbh
Free healthcare.
They're pretty common here in Sweden, at least in my experience.
My grandma had one. Growing up we just kept our bread & bagels in the microwave.
Gf does this with baked goods. It's awful for me because I microwave a lot and don't always remember to put stuff back and it gets stale.