I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
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Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

Sections in this article:

  • The $725.32 Free Bread
  • What’s the Point of the Article?
  • What Celebrities Don’t Want You to Know
  • Almost but Not Actually the Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
  • What Is the “Best”?
  • The Bread That Flies Through the Air
  • The Bread of the Appalachian Dancing Bear
  • The Restaurant in America That I Hate, That I Will Never Go Back to, That Has Made of Me an Enemy for Life Due to Its Psychotic Soda Policy
  • The Chain-Restaurant Popularity Paradox
  • The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Warning: super long read. But a very interesting genealogy of free bread! I thoroughly enjoyed this.

    Also, why I hate Olive Garden:

    Horner’s demonic calculation for how many slices or rolls each table’s basket should contain is [Number of diners] + 1. Unevenly divisible bread creates “a tension that I really enjoy.”