Mom recently told me that when she was little (1950’s) there was a miniature loaf of bread. Typical white, like Wonder Bread or Taystee. It was not much bigger than two or three hot dog buns and to this day she doesn’t know why they made them.
I bet they made them for single people who could not go through a loaf. Few or no preservatives back then.
When I was a kid there was a family in the neighborhood whose father worked at a local commercial bakery. He used to hand out those little loaves of white bread on Halloween instead of candy. We loved those things. This was in the 1980s.
I recall going on a school tour of the Helms Bakery near Los Angeles as in kid around 1958 or so and they gave us miniature loaves of bread as a souvenir.
Several years ago we were given some of these. They were little “promo” loaves.
Buttons12 wrote: “Mom recently told me that when she was little (1950’s) there was a miniature loaf of bread. Typical white, like Wonder Bread or Taystee. It was not much bigger than two or three hot dog buns and to this day she doesn’t know why they made them.”
In the early fifties, my school would sponsor trips to various places like bakeries and bottling places. The bakery always gave each student a miniature loaf of white bread, maybe twice or three times the size of a dinner roll. At the Coca Cola plant, we received a small 6 oz bottle of cola. Once we even got to take train ride.
Are you perhaps thinking of Hovis bread?
I saw a half loaf of bread in the store just a couple days ago. Never saw one before.