Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Freshly Baked Bed

Mm-mmm, warm and toasty and yummy.
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This morning I went to make sandwiches for my children to take to school. Problem: we had run out of bread!

I made a quick trip to our local bakery, which is a few blocks away, and picked up a loaf of bread that was still too hot to handle, fresh from the oven. It filled my car with tantalising aromas of yeasty goodness and sweet memories.

On the way home, it occurred to me that people would probably be prepared, for special occasions, to buy a single-use bed made from a massive, flat loaf of fresh bread, sliced into a mattress and duvet.

Snuggle into the soft, pliant, doughy bread and bask in its heavenly aroma.

Also available in wholegrain, for those who want to roughage it a little, and in brioche/croissant, for the utter hedonist or for when you really want to impress someone.

Midnight snacks are now a... well, a snack.

UnaBubba, Aug 10 2006

Bread Bed Found http://www.easternedge.ca/2003-07.php
Not the University of Arizona as [EdisonsTwin] said, but a place called Eastern Edge Gallery in Newfoundland, Canada. [Canuck, Aug 16 2006]

Wonder Bread http://www.wonderbread.com/
The home of every white, middle-class American's favourite food. [Canuck, Aug 16 2006]


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       I would much prefer a giant cream puff, but a little loaf for you because fresh bread does smell so good.+   

       (Instead of Bed & Breakfast...Bed IS Breakfast.)
xandram, Aug 10 2006
  

       It was cold here at 5:30 this morning, when I went down to get the bread before I left for my 6:30 meeting. The bread made me want to curl up inside it and have a quiet snooze.   

       Careful with that marmalade, Eugene!
UnaBubba, Aug 10 2006
  

       Bun, primarily for usage of the word 'pliant'.[+]
zen_tom, Aug 10 2006
  

       Thanks for the bun. It will make a nice pillow.
UnaBubba, Aug 10 2006
  

       Mmmmmm pillow.   

       //it occurred to me that people would probably be prepared// - That supposition has underpinned many an idea here which would otherwise be entirely without foundations.
wagster, Aug 10 2006
  

       crumbs!
po, Aug 10 2006
  

       Not tonight darling, I have a yeast infection
hippo, Aug 10 2006
  

       I woke up screaming again last night. I thought my bread bed would help me sleep, but I keep having nightmares of being at a lunch meeting for giants.
Worldgineer, Aug 10 2006
  

       The unleaveaned version sold to Jews during Passover might not be very comfortable
hippo, Aug 10 2006
  

       Use Lavosh as a hammock!
Galbinus_Caeli, Aug 10 2006
  

       Weren't you just complaining about the rats, er, possums? Now you'll never get rid of them!
DrCurry, Aug 10 2006
  

       [UB] ...are you just loafing around today?
xandram, Aug 10 2006
  

       Such pain-ful puns, guys.
UnaBubba, Aug 10 2006
  

       oh, you can take it.   

       Isn't your title a pun?
xandram, Aug 10 2006
  

       Yeah, he likes it. He's a gluten for punishment. When it comes to puns, I can almost always rise to the occasion, but I'll just be leaven well enough alone on this one.   

       The response is all bueno so far. Someone else is bound to pan it.
half, Aug 10 2006
  

       [half] I cannot stop laughing, thanks, I needed some back up here.
xandram, Aug 10 2006
  

       I need to to be more lavash in my use of puns, don't I?'
UnaBubba, Aug 12 2006
  

       Last night I dreamt I was eating a giant pillow...
egbert, Aug 13 2006
  

       ...and when I woke up my marshmallow had turned into a... no, that's not right, ...my bread had eaten my... no, not that either...
wagster, Aug 13 2006
  

       //I need to to be more lavash in my use of puns, don't I?'// pun-gent ardour
xenzag, Aug 13 2006
  

       How would the bed be delivered? Getting it over the doorstep might be a bit tricky. On saying that I laver good nap in the morning; roll over and spread myself across the mattress.
Jinbish, Aug 14 2006
  

       //On saying that I laver good nap in the morning// Oh yes, me too, on the weekends, I prefer to get up at around 'leaven.
zen_tom, Aug 14 2006
  

       I was thinking to myself earlier “hadn’t ciabatta join in with this” but to pita my loaf against such giants, I’m not sure I can rise to that. I don’t want to make a bloomer and have everyone scofa me.
egbert, Aug 14 2006
  

       //I don’t want to make a bloomer//   

       Soda I.
Jinbish, Aug 14 2006
  

       I dough'nt get it.
normzone, Aug 14 2006
  

       It's the yeast I could do. I'm just loafing around the office, which is one of the rolls I play.
UnaBubba, Aug 14 2006
  

       Stop it! Stop it! Can't take any more. Anyway you slice it, these puns are so baked, it's not leaven funny anymore.
NotTheSharpestSpoon, Aug 14 2006
  

       Life is like a shit sandwich: The more bead you've got, the less shit you have to eat.
UnaBubba, Aug 15 2006
  

       ...unless you can somehow bake a miniature loaf (say about 1cc) and place just a *tiny* sliver of poo between the slices.
zen_tom, Aug 15 2006
  

       O, wouldst that I could fashion bread
To lay upon as if in bed
Mine heart would soar, and winged be
Mine spirit, glad, unburdened be
In quiet slumber, by crust protected
Daily turmoils are rejected
No boogeyman, no wraith nor ghost
Safe, I slumber warm as toast
Sweet dreams waft upon the night
But with the morning's gentle light
An empty feeling rumbles deep
Alas what urge disturbs my sleep?
Breakfast! I must get me fed
Don't have a cow, just eat the bed!
Canuck, Aug 15 2006
  

       I tried to lie down on a loaf last night, just to see if this would work. It wasn't very supportive.
egbert, Aug 15 2006
  

       Give us this day, our daily bed...
UnaBubba, Aug 15 2006
  

       I don't knead this!   

       Q: How long before it turns hard?   

       'Why's this section of the bed so much higher?'
"Yeast infection."
RayfordSteele, Aug 15 2006
  

       This idea has actually been baked. I can't provide a link, but when I was a graduate student at the University of Arizona I went to a graduate student art gallery and someone had made a bed out of loaves of wonderbread. No joke, that's how stupid art has gotten.
EdisonsTwin, Aug 16 2006
  

       What is wonderbread? Do I want to know?
UnaBubba, Aug 16 2006
  

       Bread.
skinflaps, Aug 16 2006
  

       UB, wonderbread, or more correctly Wonder Bread, is an American brand of white bread that is used as a standard of blandness in North America. It is perceived as a sort of stereotypical, nourishment-free food-of-the-masses.   

       I won't say your idea is baked but I found a link something like what [EdisonsTwin] was referring to. It differs in that it makes a bed out of bread slices, whereas yours is a single loaf dedicated to its purpose.
Canuck, Aug 16 2006
  

       If I were sleeping between two huge slices of bread, I'm pretty certain I'd have nightmares about being eaten by a giant who mistook me for a sandwich. Obviously a bun for the idea anyway.
Fishrat, Aug 16 2006
  

       I just read each and every pun and am desperately trying not to groan out loud.
Mr Phase, Aug 16 2006
  

       It goes against the grain, I've grown to realise, to groan about puns. That sort of thing merely shortens your life.
UnaBubba, Aug 16 2006
  


 

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