Friendship Bread
Sep. 16th, 2008 01:31 pmThanks to
martini_tim, I just had this conversation with my husband:
Stephen: An LJ buddy is making friendship bread.
Matt: Oh yeah?
Stephen: Have you ever made friendship bread?
Matt: No. I haven't.
Stephen: Do you know anyone who has?
Matt: No, I haven't.
Stephen: Do you know what friendship bread is?
Matt: No, I don't.
2 minutes go by...
Matt: Are you going to tell me what friendship bread is or leave me hanging here?
Stephen: (Clearly distracted...) Oh, yeah... It's bread whose dough started from an original batch possibly 10-20 years ago by someone you've never met. Then they pass it along when they make the bread themselves and share it with friends. Friendship bread!
Matt: Hmmm...
(At this point, I thought for sure that Matthew would have been disgusted by the idea of fermenting dough, feeding the yeast with sugar, and baking bread that's been passed around for years and years. His interested seemed piqued, so I continued...)
Stephen: You share the loaf you bake with friends and then share part of the dough with a different friend. Some people share their segment of dough with more than one person to spread the love. In fact, my first NJ landlords gave me some of their friendship bread and I found a friend to pass it along to at work, I think. But I've never heard of adding pudding into the mix you bake.
Matt: Where'd pudding enter the equation?
Stephen: That's what Tim's dilemma was. He didn't have any pudding so he couldn't make his friendship bread. Sad.
Matt: Yeah... that's sad; why would they put pudding into the mix?
Stephen: No idea.
>Sigh<
It's GREAT being unemployed and having innocuous conversations at 1:30 PM at home with my husband. Thanks for instigating it,
martini_tim!!
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Stephen: An LJ buddy is making friendship bread.
Matt: Oh yeah?
Stephen: Have you ever made friendship bread?
Matt: No. I haven't.
Stephen: Do you know anyone who has?
Matt: No, I haven't.
Stephen: Do you know what friendship bread is?
Matt: No, I don't.
2 minutes go by...
Matt: Are you going to tell me what friendship bread is or leave me hanging here?
Stephen: (Clearly distracted...) Oh, yeah... It's bread whose dough started from an original batch possibly 10-20 years ago by someone you've never met. Then they pass it along when they make the bread themselves and share it with friends. Friendship bread!
Matt: Hmmm...
(At this point, I thought for sure that Matthew would have been disgusted by the idea of fermenting dough, feeding the yeast with sugar, and baking bread that's been passed around for years and years. His interested seemed piqued, so I continued...)
Stephen: You share the loaf you bake with friends and then share part of the dough with a different friend. Some people share their segment of dough with more than one person to spread the love. In fact, my first NJ landlords gave me some of their friendship bread and I found a friend to pass it along to at work, I think. But I've never heard of adding pudding into the mix you bake.
Matt: Where'd pudding enter the equation?
Stephen: That's what Tim's dilemma was. He didn't have any pudding so he couldn't make his friendship bread. Sad.
Matt: Yeah... that's sad; why would they put pudding into the mix?
Stephen: No idea.
>Sigh<
It's GREAT being unemployed and having innocuous conversations at 1:30 PM at home with my husband. Thanks for instigating it,
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