-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/07 12:06, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 10:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Michael A. Marsh writes: >>> In that case, it's an economy of scale. Most people want white bread, so >>> bread companies buy a lot more white flour than whole grain. >> That was probably true decades ago but I think that these days the >> whole-wheat market is large enough that the cost differences are minimal. > > We have 3 bread factories and one "Keebler" here in town. They get the > bulk flour in via train cars, then transfer it to trucks then into the > factory. It takes 3 Trucks to empty and transfer a single train car. > > Ratio of White flour to Wheat flour? What do you guess? > > 6-7 white flour train cars to 1 Wheat flour. We are talking 160,000 > pounds each train car. Each car being a 100 ton car. > > Or how about the fact that the "Wonder-Bread" factory in Indianapolis > still only receives white flour? > > What about the "Keebler" factory here in town? Well they make cookies > and bread. Hugely slants the ratio to white flour, so I don't really > now.
Not only that, but 1) whole wheat breads are typically more than just s/white/whole wheat/ 2) whole wheat breads spoil quicker (higher oil content) 3) consumers of whole wheat breads are typically higher-income than white bread, meaning sellers can charge more. [snip] - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDVCjS9HxQb37XmcRAvsiAJoDpeFl5+lRT+SyOeD3tcWjQ+m8bACfdfLc eBDmm8pe4DjkeTfU9PiNNk8= =o5c3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
