I don't know if this is a real thing, or a scam like the colour-coded toxic toothpaste boxes of a few years back. But if it's true, then it's a revelation. Not a particularly important or useful one, to be fair, but a revelation nevertheless.
It has been brought to my attention that, you know those coloured plastic tags that close up your bread bags - technically called bread clips, but also known as bread tags, or bag clips or bread buckles - they too are colour-coded. What?!
If true! (Maybe.) A blue clip indicates that the loaf was baked, packaged and stocked on the store's shelves on a Monday. Green indicates Tuesday's bread, red Thursday, white Friday and yellow Saturday. Wondering about Wednesday and Sunday? Well, apparently, commercial bakeries do not bake on Wednesdays or Sundays. And who knew THAT?
The idea is that store shelf-stockers can see at a glance how old a loaf is and rotate older bread out as needed. You can also use it as a consumer, though - if you are shopping on a Friday, and you see bread with a blue tag, you can bet it's several days old.
And, just for good measure, someone even thought to make the colour scheme easy to remember: the colours are in alphabetical order - blue, green, red, white, yellow. Get out!
Actually, even if someone knows that this is an urban myth, don't tell me - I prefer to believe it. I am never going to utilize this particular snippet of information, but it's cool nonetheless.
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