Bread is a broad topic reaching into many fields of study such as international trade, agriculture and dietetics. Whether studied here or abroad, bread quality should be important to all students at OU. Most male undergrads apply themselves to study a broad or two. This occasionally leads to breeding. More on that later.
So, bread quality?
For quality bread, pick Panera every time. The restaurant’s bakers and bakestresses arrive at 8 p.m. to bake bread for the following day. Their shifts usually end 7 a.m. the following morning. Panera even offers a calorie chart upon request.
The Panera in Norman is near Hastings on West Main and 24th Avenue. Try the soup and sandwich combo. It totals $8.09, plus tax, and comes with a whole wheat baguette (unfortunately, whole wheat isn’t tax exempt, yet). When ordering, ask for the bread bowl and avoid being rude to the waiter or waitress.
Disrespect, especially to the wait staff, is characteristic of bad breeding. It is a fact that fewer and fewer Americans today are well bred. This is true in spite of the hours spent breeding in dormitory laundromats and other locales.
The bred quality debate should not take issue with how yeast rises in bread but how parents raise their children. Science is yet again aiding in the simplest of tasks. Refer to the New York Times article “Building a Baby, With Few Ground Rules,” for the latest breeding fad, third-party reproduction.
Third-party breeding goes something like this: Woman “A” pays “X” dollars for Woman “B” and Random Guy “C” to cough up their reproductive goods. Doctor “Y” performs in vitro fertilization — again, for a fee — and nine months later, Woman “B” delivers Baby “N.” Custody of the baby is given to Woman “A,” the orchestrator of this spermal-square dance, and everyone is happy.
Legal complications rise — not unlike good bread — when a custody battle emerges between Woman “A” and Woman “B.” Oh, the distances traveled for quality bred children.
Being well bred, despite Science’s intervention, is now more important where it concerned domesticated animals. Consider that a purebred Bengal (a hybrid domestic cat breed) has a starting cost of $900. Bengal’s are feline’s of superior breeding. On the other hand, cats of inferior breeding are up for adoption through Hands Helping Paws at the Petsmart on Lloyd Noble.
Hands Helping Paws is a “nonprofit incorporated organization aimed at reducing and stabilizing unwanted feral cat populations via trap, neuter/spay, and release program in Norman.” Cats adopted through this organization are one-fifteenth the cost of the aforementioned Bengal. That’s $60 for you English majors.
Panera Bread is hosting a fundraiser, April 22 for Hands Helping Paws. If you tell the cashier or cashieress you are there for HHP between 5:00 and 9:00 pm that night, Panera will donate a percentage of the sales made that night.
Hands Helping Paws has a Web site (www.petfinder.com/shelters/OK252.html) and Facebook page if you are interested in volunteering or otherwise supporting. At the very least, consume quality bread April 22 while helping poorly bred cats find a home.
The moral of the story is this: Why spend money for quality breeding when there are so many strays, orphans or otherwise unwanted pets and people in the world. Think of how that money might be spent on better bread!
If you decide to adopt, don’t disrespect your pet or child. That too is a sign of bad breeding.
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m_dowas 2 years, 2 months ago
Mar/25/2010
Dear Mr. JOHN BEST My name is Mohamed. I am from Libya, and I am learning English at OU CESL. I had read your article. I like the way you thing about the Doaism, yet I find the article is a difficult to understand and to imagine. I think my English is not good enough, or your subject is not in my interest. Even though it is good thing that you use bread for example, all most of cultures eat bread every day. In addition, water is more common. I agree with you that we have to live natural because natural gives us healthy live, and natural means balance in life. Natural choices do not disrupt the order of life, but I think some of things we do not have to think about. We just leave it keep ongoing because It will happen even if we work hard of it such as death. All people going to die. It will west time for nothing. In fact, there are special things that people think, they are controlling it, but they don’t. For example like earning many from business. Of course if they work hard, they will get more money, but it controlled by gad however, there is some things should be controlled to make balance in life to live as natural life. I have commended about the article language. It is quiet complicated please make it more easy. Thank you for reading my command. Regards Mohamed Dowas