Me? I miss the old Mom and Pop bakeries. We had quite a few of them around here, but they’re all gone now. Back when I was a youngin’, no one knew what a bagel was. People ate doughnuts, cruellers, pastries...plenty of sugar and fat. This one bakery near me looked like a dive from the outside, but it had some of the most decadent baked goods in the world. Then the froo-froo chains like Starbucks came along. Pretty much ruined the bakeries and coffee shops. Sometimes new is not better.
We are blessed to still have a bakery that’s been around and run by the same family for generations. They had expanded to a ‘chain’ meaning they had TWO whole outlets. Closed down the 2nd one a few years ago. The original is still there and doesn’t look a crumb different than it did 30 years ago, or well before that.
But, being a true bakery, it doesn’t have coffee or other than its (to die for) baked products. Thanks for the reminder, I’m on a diet !!