Beware bread!
Cats: odd things|This important article was sent awhile back by GT commentator Dick.
Research on bread indicates that:
1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called “dough.” It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a “gateway” food item, leading the user to “harder” items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
In light of these frightening statistics, it has been proposed that the following bread restrictions be made:
1. No sale of bread to minors.
2. A nationwide “Just Say No To Toast” campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of “Bread-free” zones around schools.

April 6th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I, for one, am proud to be a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person. And those are just my thighs we’re talking about.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:56 am
I’m carb crazy and proud.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:43 am
This is really weird, but the first eight-track I ever purchased was The Best of Bread … and things started to go down-hill really quickly. I started to do my homework, got really into the James Last Super Party Pack, stayed in on Friday nights to watch Donny and Marie (I can remember every word to “She’s a little bit country …”), and ended up getting a Business Degree instead of studying fine arts as I thought I would be better-prepared for employment!!!
All this bears out your theory that bad things start with Bread! I wish you had written this column in the seventies …
April 7th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Bread pudding is one of the great desserts, especially with maple syrup. I always knew you were a criminal.
BeckEye, carb crazy and Aussie nuts.
Dak, oh dear, all because of Bread.
Yes, sadly I too watch d&m: “He’s a little bit rock and roll.
I should have posted this in the seventies.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Bah, this post is full of hot air and yeast.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
What a wonderful post. That Dick person must be something special!
BTW I recommend the book “Innumeracy” by John Allan Paulos. It’s a good read as he has fun pointing out how ignorant the general populace is with respect to all things statistical.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Mmmmm….Aussie nuts.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
WP, hot air, yeast and damned statistics
Dick, yes this person Dick is indeed something special isn’t he? BTW I have that book you recommend.
Becks, mmmm indeed.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Oops, should have read more closely … the bread post is attributed to Dick, but still so, so true. Perhaps GT could come up with a Toast Post, although that’s been done, hasn’t it?
April 7th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
But I really love bread!
Sometimes I get a baguette and just have baguette and peanut butter for dins. I know that’s wrong. But you’ll have to pry the bread out of my cold, dead hands!
April 8th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I hear that tooth brushing leads to similar evils in society…
April 8th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
DAK funny I just read a toast post yesterday
http://www.meish.org/
Jacy, I’d take baguette with nothing on it for supper every night of the week
Deepti, and going to malls, driving across bridges, and being born.