Not wanting "organic" bread

[shootingstar]

She may well have no idea what an "artisanal bakery" is! I didn't a couple of years ago. It's quite likely that she is from a place where a bakery is a bakery. Lots of people go to a bakery because the bread is (or used to be) fresher than from supermarket shelves.

Another possibly is that she has the idea that 'organic' bread means whole grain non-white bread with a hard chewy consistency (this is a pretty common notion), and she just wanted white fluffy bread. And maybe her descriptive vocabulary was limited.
In the Caribbean and Puerto Rico (where I lived for many years), the average person thinks that bread that is very white and very soft and very fluffy is superior bread that you can be proud to serve. Harder chewy non-white bread with grain bits is looked upon with suspicion as being crude, perhaps even stale. The softer, whiter, and fluffier the better. And any good homemaker goes directly to the local bakery to buy bread, not the supermarket.

I suspect it is true that her definition of bakery is merely bread that is fresher than supermarket.

Would agree on different attitudes in other parts of the world, that there is in minds of some folks that "white", soft and fluffy bread is seen as superior and even status-oriented. (ie. an implication one has money to buy Western style food, etc.)

Until last 10 years, many of the Chinese grocery stores in Chinatowns I've been in, rarely carried hardly or no brown rice at all in large amounts. (Black rice is for occasional, specialized dishes). Brown rice is viewed by traditional minded folks, as crude, low status/peasant. Regardless of brown rice's real health benefits.

Certainly one does not offer in temples...brown rice to the "gods". It tends to be white rice. Sorry, to mix comments on rice vs. bread, but that is the other major carb. where similiar attitude exists of "white" is 'better' in the minds of some folks.


Japanese cuisine does seem to integrate into some traditional dishes, some brown rice.

Well, Bleeckerstgirl, if you want to open your own bakery, you already know how to market that bread!