By DAN LANGFORD

After my exchange last week with the convenience store clerk over the word “sack,” I’m tempted to go back in and ask her if she has any sweet milk or light bread.  The first of those delectables we’ve covered in a previous entry, but “light bread” is simply pre-sliced, enriched white loaf bread — Colonial, Sunbeam, Wonder, Merita, to dredge up some names from the past and present.

I don’t know why it’s called “light bread,” but I’ve heard that everywhere in Georgia I’ve ever lived, so I think it’s fairly common usage.   As an aside, I happen to prefer to eat hamburgers and barbeque sandwiches on light bread than on buns, which probably isn’t so common.

I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who can tell me why it’s called “light bread.”  Until I do, I’ll persist in calling it that, and in eating it with my barbeque and hamburgers.

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