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

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Post by bombcar »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #137
bombcar wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In most of the US that’d be illegal (unless the four pack was itself a separate product instead of four individual ones). And “two for $5” and “buy one at $5 get one free” are considered different - the first almost always has to work out to $2.50 each unless they get very explicit with a “save $1 when you buy two” wording. Most stores don’t bother.

> In most of the US that’d be illegal (unless the four pack was itself a separate product instead of four individual ones). Really? Because KFC does this all the time with a la carte biscuits. The per-item rate is higher if you buy four (as advertised on the menu) than if you were to buy one four times in a row.

If it's part of some combo it can fly, but if it's literally "order 4 and get charged more than ordering 1 four times" you can probably report them to the Commerce Department.

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

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Post by djrogers »

chubot wrote: post #113
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.…

FWIW in the US this is called "artisan bread", as opposed to supermarket bread. You can get it in bakeries in every major city, and at farmer's markets, but not most supermarkets, especially not outside the city. It's really popular in San Francisco for example. I found this out because I brought some bread from back to the suburbs to my parents, and they thought it was awesome, and had never had it before ... ! I ha…

> but not most supermarkets, especially not outside the city.

Not sure what part of the country you live in, but this kind of bread is available at even the smallest out-of-the-way grocery store anywhere in California, and on most of the west coast that I've been to. I know because my family is hooked on it...

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

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Post by thruway516 »

dubcanada wrote: post #130
moralestapia wrote: post #127

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Sorry but, I don't get the analogy, could you elaborate?

He sucks at selling, however the guy who he buys the salt from is excellent at selling. Therefore capable of getting the shop owner to buy excessive amounts of salt.

Go on ... How does this relate to websites for half loaves of bread?

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

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Post by vishnugupta »

freeCandy wrote: post #109
vishnugupta wrote: post #102

This is super awesome; pleasantly surprised to see this is relevant for my home town :-D Also, funnily this is how they are sourcing the data. Ingenious!! "The search is only available in select big cities in India because it uses Dunzo as the data source. No affiliation with Dunzo. The API used to call Dunzo is open but undocumented. So if someone from Dunzo is reading this, don't be sending take-down notices. This…

What I love about this is the way half loaves are found, simple but really clever. Search for "bread" with the correct category, and then filter out all results that are greater than 300 grams. It works out because all the artisanal bread are excluded with a regex. https://github.com/prashantbaid/halfloaf/blob/master/lambda/...

Thanks :-D. So we now have an (albeit Lambda) API over an API!! This keeps getting better.

https://brc5og74x0.execute-api.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/prod...

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

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Post by asiachick »

Pretty much every convenience and supermarket in Japan sells half loafs (well, if a "standard" loaf is L=2, W=1, H=1 and a half loaf is L=1, W=1, H=1.)

The 1x1x1 "half" loaf is the standard size in Japan

https://prtimes.jp/i/36645/189/origin/d36645-189-bc3e74b4250...

Further, it's also common to be able to buy bread in 3 and even just 2 slices.

https://www.panstory.jp/img/images_np/fujipan/2015/06/01.jpg

For me, I crave bread, meaning if I buy the half loaf then I'd likely eat the entire thing in 1-2 days so I like being able to buy 2 slices and avoid the temptation to eat the 6 or so I would have had if I'd bought the half loaf

Also, it's common in Japan to be able to buy a loaf as to comes out of the oven. Bakeries all over Japan advertise at what times bread will be freshly backed.

Note: the fact that this size is ubiquitous in Japan also means the site is no really succeeding there. For example here's 7/11's bread

https://www.sej.co.jp/products/a/bread/

There are over 21k 7/11 stores in Japan and that's just one of several big chains that carry half loafs

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

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Post by LegitShady »

bmmayer1 wrote: post #16

Mel Brooks joke: a man in a deli notices that there's nothing but salt on every shelf. He asks the shopkeeper if he sells a lot of salt. The shopkeeper says "If I sell a bag of salt a week I'm lucky. But the guy who sells me salt, boy, can he sell salt!" This is a great idea that "doesn't scale" and could one day be a $1B business. Well done!

I don't really understand how this could ever be a $1b business, or how that relates to the salt joke.

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

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Post by dheera »

bmmayer1 wrote: post #16

Mel Brooks joke: a man in a deli notices that there's nothing but salt on every shelf. He asks the shopkeeper if he sells a lot of salt. The shopkeeper says "If I sell a bag of salt a week I'm lucky. But the guy who sells me salt, boy, can he sell salt!" This is a great idea that "doesn't scale" and could one day be a $1B business. Well done!

I see a new dating app in the making ... match people who want half loaves with others who want half loaves and send them out to buy a full loaf together.

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

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Post by Tarq0n »

treeman79 wrote: post #107
mirker wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is “artisan” bread, made by hand, which is the round kind. Then there is “sandwich bread”, which is the rectangular kind. Ingredients: Artisan bread is usually just flour, water, salt, yeast (sourdough is just flour and water, too). Sandwich bread can include milk or other fats to make it softer and is more of a “cake”. In industrial settings, there are a lot of preservatives included in the sandwich bread. Mix…

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.

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

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Post by sAbakumoff »

bmmayer1 wrote: post #16

Mel Brooks joke: a man in a deli notices that there's nothing but salt on every shelf. He asks the shopkeeper if he sells a lot of salt. The shopkeeper says "If I sell a bag of salt a week I'm lucky. But the guy who sells me salt, boy, can he sell salt!" This is a great idea that "doesn't scale" and could one day be a $1B business. Well done!

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