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We must live in different parts of the UK then because where I am in the north the bread choice has never been better - what you said was more true a couple of decades ago but my local small co-op has a huge range of bread fresh baked on premises including stuff like ancient grain sourdough.

All the lidl's within 20 miles have in store bakeries and do the same and you can order that stuff from all the major supermarkets.

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It's funny that you mention co-op and lidl.. neither of them actually have "bread fresh baked on premises including stuff like ancient grain sourdough" [0].

kwhitefoot is correct and the vast majority of bread in the UK is not what you think it is.

The bread in these two stores is mostly baked in a factory and then delivered to the store where it may be heated for a golden crust (at most). The ancient grain sourdough is (likely) just mostly wheat bread [1].

In my personal experience, I was always suspicious of the "fresh sourdough bread" at Tesco. It was far too soft to be real sourdough bread and now I think it was a straight-up lie- sorry just a marketing label.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/11/fou...

[1] https://www.sustainweb.org/news/dec23-lidl-sourdough-sourfau...

This is just premixed and shaped dough brought into stores and then cooked there surely. There's no guy at the back of your co-op carefully nurturing his bread-mother.

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