Hot Buns
Since we started homeschooling, we've become The Field Trip Family. We'll go anywhere... Tree nursery, fire station, newspaper, zoo. It's important to get out of the classroom to teach the kids that the world is a very busy place filled with all sorts of people doing all sorts of amazing things.
Just because it's summer doesn't mean we stop learning. Last week we drove into Spokane for a rare open house at Franz Bakery. I felt like I was in one of those Mr. Rogers films, except without Mr. McFeely's narration. The bakery was running at full-speed, making bread loaves (7,000 an hour) and hot dog buns (40,000 an hour). Wow, people eat a lot of bread!
We were given little paper hats to wear while we walked around the plant. Above our heads were cooling conveyors, on which the loaves and buns traveled for an hour before being sliced and wrapped.
We even got to meet creepy bread slice guy before being served a very nice free hot dog lunch (fresh buns, yum!). Then the bakery loaded us down with free bread, donuts, t-shirts, and more goofy paper hats.
An enjoyable morning. My kids, who eat lots of bread (whole grain only), were fascinated by the entire process. They also totally debunked two old cliches:
Man can live by bread alone, if he had to.
And, there is such a thing as a free lunch.
See? Field trips are educational in more ways than one.
Just because it's summer doesn't mean we stop learning. Last week we drove into Spokane for a rare open house at Franz Bakery. I felt like I was in one of those Mr. Rogers films, except without Mr. McFeely's narration. The bakery was running at full-speed, making bread loaves (7,000 an hour) and hot dog buns (40,000 an hour). Wow, people eat a lot of bread!
We were given little paper hats to wear while we walked around the plant. Above our heads were cooling conveyors, on which the loaves and buns traveled for an hour before being sliced and wrapped.
We even got to meet creepy bread slice guy before being served a very nice free hot dog lunch (fresh buns, yum!). Then the bakery loaded us down with free bread, donuts, t-shirts, and more goofy paper hats.
An enjoyable morning. My kids, who eat lots of bread (whole grain only), were fascinated by the entire process. They also totally debunked two old cliches:
Man can live by bread alone, if he had to.
And, there is such a thing as a free lunch.
See? Field trips are educational in more ways than one.
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7 Comments:
While that sounds like a loaf of fun. Yes, clever, I know. I can't help but wonder just how funny, if at all, it would be to try and butter the mascot.
I assume they frown on such things.
Sounds like a great day out, I ought to check out around here and see if there is someplace like that where I can take the nippers.....
Im with whit, that mascot needs buttering up lol
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Free lunch if you don't count the cost of having to look at that mascot.
Pretty cool.
Our kids only get to see 'Scoopie' when we eat at Culvers.
I love fresh baked bread, especially if it's home made. My mum had a knack for doing so ... I'll give anything to have one of her home made's again.
Sounds like a fun trip, sure it smelled fantastic :-)
Same here, I only buy whole grain bread, kids complained but are getting used to it LOL, unless it's hot dog buns. The Aussies calls buns rolls here, I stick to my buns!
I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to be homeschooled so we can do things like this.
I think, "Mmm. Bread." Then I think, "Uh. Carbohydrates." Then I think, "Oy. Diet." Then, I stop thinking, "Mmm. Bread."
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