Is this actually what a typical everyday German does or is this just a gimmick in some places?
Edit: well TIL it is! Can’t wait to try it out when I move to Germany lol
If I buy sliced bread (happens more often than I would admit), it’s at a bakery, not at a supermarket.
What store is this? I’d like to at least try it once for the novelty.
We are already living in the year 2137
Never bought my bread this way. Prefer a real bakery.
Lol. I never thought buying my bread at the Lidl could be r/interestingasfuck for foreigners.
Think this is pretty normal. Had it in NL when living there. Germany as you see here. Have it in CZ now that I live there.
Pretty much wherever a lidl is, this machine is. Independent of country.
Not just Germany. Lidl in Ireland has those too. At the moment, they aren’t in use because of Covid, all the bread is prepacked
Huh, that maschine produces a nice beat.
Lidl has converted me to loving this bread. However the slicing machine has been “out of order” since the store opened about a year ago. I have a feeling my fellow Americans can’t bag a loaf of bread without causing a customer service scene every 15 minutes.
I’ve worked at grocery store and asking the shopping public to complete a 3 step process taking nearly 60 whole seconds is like asking a cow to solve a Rubik’s cube. People are completely checked out on auto pilot while shopping most of the time.
Either that or someone tried to put their child in there once, it’s a toss up in my town.
I almost never use that. Our family usually buys packaged sliced bread or sometimes a whole bread which we slice at home so it won’t get dry so fast. But I think at least most lidl have this thing.
More like germans compensate their lack of a bread knife or bread cutting maschine.
Well, Germans that can’t use knives at least. It seems to be a spreading phenomena.
To be fair, for a German, that’s a pretty weak bread choice.
Lived 21 years in germany and never tried to slice my bread in a store
Its a lidl, aldi, rewe, kaufland… self service machine. If you are low on Budget(like 2euro for 1kg bread) and need fresh sliced bread, you got a solution.
Bullshit, every German household has its own bread slicer. Which is indeed interesting as duck, because who would think of putting a damn Kreissäge in their kitchen just to cut bread??
That’s fucking schön.
^((alt + 148 on numpad, I don’t speak german much, just some literal basics and a few words).)
What if I want it sliced horizontally?
not used by a lot here in germany because most germans have a machine at home.
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Gloves. Always were these disposable gloves.
I never buy sliced bread. Sometimes I feel like my citizenship might get revoked because of that. 🙁
Nah. Slightly older ones who have enough space buy a whole bread or bake their own, and then use [this](https://www.graef.de/media/thumbnails/c20-w1400-center.jpg) as needed.
Is this actually what a typical everyday German does or is this just a gimmick in some places?
Edit: well TIL it is! Can’t wait to try it out when I move to Germany lol
If I buy sliced bread (happens more often than I would admit), it’s at a bakery, not at a supermarket.
What store is this? I’d like to at least try it once for the novelty.
We are already living in the year 2137
Never bought my bread this way. Prefer a real bakery.
Lol. I never thought buying my bread at the Lidl could be r/interestingasfuck for foreigners.
Think this is pretty normal. Had it in NL when living there. Germany as you see here. Have it in CZ now that I live there.
Pretty much wherever a lidl is, this machine is. Independent of country.
Not just Germany. Lidl in Ireland has those too. At the moment, they aren’t in use because of Covid, all the bread is prepacked
Huh, that maschine produces a nice beat.
Lidl has converted me to loving this bread. However the slicing machine has been “out of order” since the store opened about a year ago. I have a feeling my fellow Americans can’t bag a loaf of bread without causing a customer service scene every 15 minutes.
I’ve worked at grocery store and asking the shopping public to complete a 3 step process taking nearly 60 whole seconds is like asking a cow to solve a Rubik’s cube. People are completely checked out on auto pilot while shopping most of the time.
Either that or someone tried to put their child in there once, it’s a toss up in my town.
I almost never use that. Our family usually buys packaged sliced bread or sometimes a whole bread which we slice at home so it won’t get dry so fast. But I think at least most lidl have this thing.
More like germans compensate their lack of a bread knife or bread cutting maschine.
Well, Germans that can’t use knives at least. It seems to be a spreading phenomena.
To be fair, for a German, that’s a pretty weak bread choice.
Lived 21 years in germany and never tried to slice my bread in a store
Its a lidl, aldi, rewe, kaufland… self service machine. If you are low on Budget(like 2euro for 1kg bread) and need fresh sliced bread, you got a solution.
Bullshit, every German household has its own bread slicer. Which is indeed interesting as duck, because who would think of putting a damn Kreissäge in their kitchen just to cut bread??
That’s fucking schön.
^((alt + 148 on numpad, I don’t speak german much, just some literal basics and a few words).)
What if I want it sliced horizontally?
not used by a lot here in germany because most germans have a machine at home.
something like this:
https://www.saturn.de/de/category/allesschneider-1270.html
we need this here in Australia
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I never buy sliced bread, it either dries out or gets moldy, too fast.
Wrong, we use an axe
That looks like buying sliced bread with extra steps.
I’ll probably get hate for this but I’ve always thought this is so unhygienic
How many people have sneezed into that thing
When you buy it in a bakery, the staff will do it.
Only supermarkets or discounter offer this.
Some supermarkets ask you to wear single use gloves.
Protip: For folks like me who love end crusts (“Knust” in German), pretty often you can find some extra ones in those machines. Instant win.
Yooo those are state secrets! The FBD, the Federal Bread Department is on its way