Jesus would have loved Wonder Bread

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 Jesus would have loved Wonder Bread

“Whenever a person goes into a delicatessen and

orders pastrami on white bread, somewhere a

Jew dies.”--Milton Berle.

All my life,

I have been grateful

to the Earl of Sandwich

for providing me

with the perfect meal.

I once made a sandwich

out of cold mashed potatoes

and peanut butter.

My mother baked bread with white flour.

My grandmother baked bread

with whole wheat flour,

which still has

the fiber and nutrients

in it.

I guess white flour

is what’s left

after most of the fiber

has been pressed

and processed out of it.

As a dumb kid,

I preferred my mother’s white bread

to my grandmother’s heavily grained bread.

At school, compounding my stupidity,

I would trade my homemade bread sandwiches

for anything on Wonder Bread.

In college, I was introduced 

to the unleavened

breads of the Middle East, 

flat and yeastless.

I liked it. 

Somehow I felt more

spiritual

while munching on it.

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at d'Verse Poet's Pub