THE WONDERS OF WHITE BREAD
Posted by Erin Mantz at 4/1/2008 6:53 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
My six-year-old son just discovered white bread last week.
He was at a friend's for a play date and they served him peanut butter and jelly on white bread. He got excited. He'd seen it many times in the school cafeteria, but now he was about to eat it for the first time! He loved it. The next day at home, he insisted I buy it. I gave in, mainly because I was tired of having him come home from school with uneaten wheat bread sandwiches and tossing them in the garbage. And I wanted him to eat something to get through the school day.
Wandering through the bread aisle at Giant, I pondered my choices. I saw Wonder Bread, and had visions of myself as a kid, eating it for lunch. But it looked sort of different now (ok, it was 28 years ago). Words on the wrapper caught my eye:
- "Wonder KIDS" (read: my kids will like it)
- "The FIBER of 100% whole wheat"
- "Calcium - 35% DV in two slices"
- "9 Vitamins & Minerals"
OK! I felt better about buying it.
The next day, I made my son's school lunch with Wonder Bread. He was happy. This continued all week, until we hit a potential roadblock yesterday morning. My husband, who is rarely home due to a demanding campaign job, noticed the Wonder Bread! This, of all things, caught his attention. He was shocked, and he had a comment: "No more white bread!" he said. I ignored the comment. See, he'd grown up in the seventies in a house where they never had white bread - they had wheat bread way before it was fashionable. They also never had sugar cereal or any of those childhood staples. They were that house. WE are not that house. (Secretly, I wonder how his mom did it, and wish I could have, but my kids outsmarted me early on.)
Something funny happened by the time the day ended. My son went to school and happily ate his lunch. My husband came in late from work and was starving. He took one look at the Wonder Bread and excitedly announced: "I think i'm in the mood for peanut butter and jelly!" I didn't say a word as he hungrily dug into the bag and made himself a sandwich on Wonder Bread. He poured himself a glass of milk. He was happy.
Looks like Wonder Bread's debut is a success.
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