What Bread made You?

I grew up eating Southern Fried Cornbread.

What breads were served in your home when you were growing up?

when i was growing up, my mom made two loaves of some type of whole grain (or using-up-old-cereal) loaves every week.

I was raised on the cheapest day old white bread.

Sometime after I moved out on my own I discovered dark Russian Rye bread.

Mostly a very dense, very moist, whole grain rye bread. Had to turn 30 years old to start appreciating it again.
It was tasty when my grandma would make one with butter and salt and “paint” something on it to make it more fun to eat though.

Garbage. Neither of my parents knew what real bread even was. When I was ten or so, I stopped eating bread until my mom would buy fake "whole grain" bread and then I kept pushing the family into seedier and coarser bread. It's pretty much the opposite of what every other kid wants out of bread.

John F Dean wrote:Cheap day old white bread.

Yes, and the occasional trip to the Pepperidge Farm Outlet was a big treat! Just thinking about their white bread makes me hungry... and I don't even eat white bread anymore.

Thankfully I've broadened my horizons a bit beyond that and processed American cheese, but even as a certified foodie and whole grain fan, I do feel a certain fondness.

Both parents, born in the 1930s, grew up on farms and ate food mostly prepped on site that their respective mothers provided, including bread.  But both parents left the farms behind, joined the full-time workforce, and ended up making do where they could.  Mom would still make cornbread and biscuits from scratch, but bread was mostly bought as frozen pre-mixed bread dough, later just bagged white or wheat from the mega-grocer.  We've almost come full circle now as my sister has gifted us with a fancy grain mill which I hope to try out when the weather gets cooler.