I remember that bread. I used to use 4 pieces to make a sammich - 2 top and 2 bottom.

Oh yes, I remember that bread and I miss it too- absolutely iconic to me. For some reason the white wrapper is very memorable to me. That was the bread of my NYC childhood. I miss that bread along with the Pepperidge farm rolled cookies that were hollow inside that we served with ice cream (or my grandmother would just give me the whole box to myself :-)

We still have this bread where I live - Philadelphia suburbs. I double checked when I was at the grocery store earlier to make sure it hadn't disappeared from the shelves. Both white and wheat in the white wrapper. I use this bread every fall to make tea sandwiches for our annual tea at church.

They still make the Pirouettes (Pepperidge Farm family friendly speak for what is more generally known as a "cigarette" cookie.) (Scroll down past the obnoxious banner on the linked page')

So I had no idea about the bread, which I don't know that I've ever seen, but I looked on their website, and sure enough, they havesandwich white in a white wrapper. Is that what you're looking for?

I think this is what sushipup is referring to - the Very thin white and wheat.

Or this??

Yup. the very thin stuff. Can't find it locally (PA or California) but available on Amazon.

My grandson likes the Piroette cookies. I bought them at the grocery store. They come in a tin canister.

Yes, that is the bread. We don't have it in SF. I'll order it from Amazon the next time I make tea sandwiches. Back in the olden days, the bread was wrapped in a waxy white paper and then slipped into the plastic bag.

As for the lovely filled Pirouettes, they are very close to the ones I miss- except- way back when- there was an unfilled variety. Pepperidge Farm still sells them in their assorted box around the holidays-and still calls them Pirouette- pictured below in the ten o'clock position.

The closest cookie that would take its place is a tuile and while I love tuiles with or without ice cream- they are not quite right in comparison. For me there are packaged cookies like Milanos and petit beurres and Rich Tea that need that special mass produced magic ;-)

I will tell you Pepperidge sandwich bread is nothing like it was back in the day. I bought some a few months back and it was so "preservative tasting"...for want of a better term, I couldn't eat it.
I first became acquainted with Pepperidge farms bread back about 1943. We had to place an order with the local deli and they got it in once a week. It came unsliced in a white waxed paper wrapper similar to what it looks like today. It was as close to Grandma's home made as you could get. And it was like that for years.....even after you could buy it without a special order. But, alas, they sold out to a mass marketer who has taken all the good out of the product.

Wow, linda, that is a great story about Pepperidge Farm bread. Thank you.

That was a favorite bread growing up and mom would buy it sometimes, I loved making toast and sandwiches out of it. So thin and exotic!

Sushipup not sure where in PA you are but if you have a McCaffreys supermarket near you that is where I get mine.

i remember when PF's made a small. half-loaf of bread, wish that was still available!

I do know where there is a McCaffreys, so I'll try that next time I'm up there. I remember Mother making tea sandwiches (no crust, cut in diagonal quarters) for her bridge group. Still would be perfect for potlucks and other similar situations.

Thanks, Linda! I would never have known why people were so hot for Pepperidge Farm. My whole life it's been the corporate packaged stuff.

BTW, for tea sandwiches, have you checked the local bakeries? Some still make the right kind of loaves and have the thin slicer. Very fresh and easier than baking your own, and you can do a number of different flavors.

Publix used to custom cut their bread to the thickness you asked for. The would also feed a loaf into the cutter via the short end so you could do the fancy finger sandwiches or the layered loaf sandwich.

Here in KY, most of the major grocers carry the Pepperidge Farm thin sliced breads and the sandwich bread. If I am out of homemade bread I will buy either kind as regular store bread is thicker sliced than I prefer.

LOL!! Jakkom, re California, a dozen years ago I suggested to a fundraising committee that we save a ton of money on catering and make our own tea sandwiches, and they looked at me like I grew an extra head! We did in the end, though. :)

I'm totally with you on the cities vs. country, economies of scale, and general economic sense, but something I find encouraging is that the young people nowadays are learning how to do small scale artisan growing in the city, and in general demanding more sustainable and quality food. Better quality of life to be had than from another new gaming system. :)

OTOH, the best rice I ever tasted in my whole life was field ripened. It came and went, and is no more. I don't remember the price but I'd pay it again. Finding the labor to harvest is probably impossible to do on a practical scale. The one glimmer of a silver lining is that California rice is supposed to be high in arsenic and not something to be eating a lot of...

Just a note: my mother made her tea sandwiches 50+ years ago.... OK, I get that quality is not the same now, which is sad. But times change, products change, customs change. I started this thread with a little trip down memory lane. I never saw that bread in California (Mother made her sandwiches in Memphis, when you did make tea sandwiches for your bridge group), but I have since seen it at local stores here in the Philly area.

The discussion on quality of wheat is interesting. If bread were a major part of my diet, I'd pay more attention. As it stands, one loaf of sliced sourdough (PA style, not up to CA standards) lasts the two of us two weeks. I still miss San Francisco real sourdough, but I'll survive.

I use King Arthur flour for bread and use it for tea sandwiches and tea scones. I remember looking for PF's thin sliced bread and was not able to find it. But I love baking so... Having tea is my absolute favorite thing to do with my lady friends.