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Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by perlgeek »

Tarq0n wrote: post #149
treeman79 wrote: post #107

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Started baking bread with kids recently. They love it. But next day the leftover bread is stale. I explained that it isn’t full of preservatives. After a moment, they look at me and ask where we can get some.

It shouldn’t go stale in a day if you keep it somewhere somewhat airtight.

If you keep it airtight, the crust will dampen from the moisture that comes from the inside.

Which storing bread that has a crust worth preserving, I tend to make sure it gets a little air (covering it with linen cloths, for example), and accept the small amount of drying out that comes with this form of storage.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by InCityDreams »

ascar wrote: post #61

As a German the cultural differences around bread are really interesting. Already the cartoon picture of the half loaf of bread is so fundamentally different to what I am expecting it to look like. Also people in the comments saying they rarely not finish a loaf of bread. This [1] is how it looks like here and when bought at a bakery it's usually so big that we buy it in quarters and even that lasts a couple of days.…

My friends and I once (as in, one day...) went stealng bread from doorsteps in Germany, until we tasted one that was so ...different... to what we considered to be 'bread', we never did it again. Black bread? 'Different', meaning 'absolutely disgusting' to [our] tastes, at that time.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by tunesmith »

cjhveal wrote: post #175
dash2 wrote: post #170

In Scotland, "half a loaf" means a loaf. That is, "half a loaf" means an entire loaf; a whole loaf. I once had this explained to me at greatly repetitive length by a drunk man with an incomprehensible Glasgow accent, so you can be sure it is true.

Was curious about the etymology so looked it up. Seems like half-loaf referred to the fact that it weighed 2 pounds, half the standard "quartern" 4lb round loaf which was typically sold in quarters. https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/half

The quartern is twice the size of the half, got it.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by kmeisthax »

ascar wrote: post #61

As a German the cultural differences around bread are really interesting. Already the cartoon picture of the half loaf of bread is so fundamentally different to what I am expecting it to look like. Also people in the comments saying they rarely not finish a loaf of bread. This [1] is how it looks like here and when bought at a bakery it's usually so big that we buy it in quarters and even that lasts a couple of days.…

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Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by LegitShady »

bmmayer1 wrote: post #180
LegitShady wrote: post #171

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but similar sites already exist, and 99% of the time this question can be answered by putting the product X into google with your city name/country name if you're willing to have it shipped. It could become some niche search engine but I don't see any money at all involved. Nobody is earning commission on half a loaf of bread. There's no money there. There are already store stock tracking websites for many profitable…

For in person shopping I don't believe this exists. But look I said it "could" be a $billion company. This sort of project looks a lot like early versions of what eventually become $BBB companies. No one can predict the future.

as long as you can scrape their stock from the website, it exists. If you can't, then this site can't solve it.

For example, I look for photography equipment prices (in canada) using photoprice.ca, which scrapes canadian camera stores that have their stock online like henry's or broadway camera, as well as comparing against amazon.ca, amazon.com, and US stores that ship to canada like Adorama and B&H.

The issue is just 'is the data available'. None of that makes it profitable if it's just loaves of bread.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by sdenton4 »

stepbeek wrote: post #34
mbg721 wrote: post #26

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When a store has a buy-one-get-one-free deal, it would be nice to have an app that would match me up with somebody else in the store who also wants only one of that thing; then one of us could buy them and we could split the cost. I can't be the only one who doesn't have room in the freezer for a second bone-in pork roast.

The grocery store near me has a food bank donation that you can put items in before you exit.

Yeaaaaah, but do you really want to put a bone-in pork roast in the donation bin? Sounds unsanitary.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by sodality2 »

gus_massa wrote: post #121
sgerenser wrote: post #73

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Have you talked to the food bank about their policy on past-date canned food? I know at least one food bank where they told people not to donate any food past the date as it will get tossed (plus additional staff and volunteer labor to sort through the stuff). I assume this is common for liability reasons at least.

Some cans have a long time until expiration date, like 3 years. If the GP keeps the cans for 2.5 years and then donate them when they still have 6 month left until the expiration date, is that enough time for the food bank to use them?

When I volunteered at my local food bank turnaround was relatively quick. I remember sorting through paper-covered cans just three weeks after we collected the Canstructure donations to the food pantry centers. However, I don't know how soon they were handed out to people; probably pretty quickly (It probably depends on location and population.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread

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Post by paulcole »

dmurray wrote: post #15
paulcole wrote: post #9

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Based on this: > *Available in: Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Pune I’d begin by guessing that half loaves of bread are much more common in India than the US.

Can't be that common, though, or there would be no need for the website.

You think every website is created because there is a pressing need for it?
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