The Bread Code Tells You When a Loaf Was Baked

What planet is this from? I have never seen a bread tag that was not white.

Further, the ties themselves are known as occlupanids. (Singular: occlupanid )

no wednesday bread?

Nope, no bread on Wednesdays and Sundays. I work as a bread girl at a local grocery store, and we get double the load on tuesday and saturdays. The only time you don't seen colored tags on breads are stuff like bagels and pita breads.

I don't know how things are elsewhere but every bread tag I've ever seen had a date stamped on it using ordinary numbers and letters that a good fraction of the population can easily read and comprehend. My question is why on earth is this article appearing on every site I go to?

All the bread I buy has white tags with the date stamped on them in black. Maybe it's a regional thing?

Tuesday is green day. It's not just in Soylent Green!

The Snopes article you mention that "backs you up" says that there is a color coded tag for the stockers but that the order of colors is not universal, and therefore not at all useful. It also directly discusses why it doesn't matter and why you shouldn't go sharing the news with everyone you know, since this advice is just as likely to give you an older loaf than a more recently baked one. Why would you mention an article that not only contradicts what you are saying, but also says that it isn't worth spreading the news?

LOL

Fail.

This is super useful as I'd rather know when the bread was actually BAKED (color of the tag), as opposed to some bs 'eat before' (what's stamped on the tag) date!!

PV has it right, there is no universal code. Varies by region and bakery.

I had to do a report on Wonder Bread once. A trip to their bakery here, they showed us that color coded tag system. But that was in their "historical" displays.
That was an old school method before the invention of the impringting heat stamper thingy that now does the tags.

I don't think I've ever seen one that wasn't yellow...

Once they switched to stamping the date, it left marks on the fingers. Snap on in half, clip to the pad of the index finger, then flick the index finger with the thumb. Presto! A violent weapon thingy! Only use on the day it is colour coded for, plz. You have been warned.

umm i think you need to relearn your abc's, i do believe that th comes before tu, so that throws your whole theory out the window huh

(b)lue, (g)reen, (r)ed, (w)hite, (y)ellow...
they do occur in alphabetical order, Michelle. silly.

I never even thought to consider the color of the tags for freshness of bread!!!

In canada it's illegal to bake bread on thursdays I'v heard... A strange bunch really!

This is cool, had no idea... Drake, I don't think that is true about Canada.

also says that it isn't worth spreading the news?

I hate stale bread, great posting. I don't know if all large commercial bakeries use the same color / day code but almost all print the pull date on the tag or bread bag and most use the color codes to tell what day they were baked. Most small bakeries use color codes and some won't tell you what they mean. Some breads have a longer shelf life than others so the baked day doesn't always correspond with the pull date. Michelle- the alphabetical is for colors not the days of the week, re-read the posting.

if the colors are in alphabetical order.. why is white before yellow?

Kenz, 'W' comes before 'Y' in the alphabet.

All bread tags and ties in my area are white. This really must only be regional.

We don't even have those tags where I'm from. They use twisty ties. All of them are red. :o

this is so true! all the bread in my area uses this code

Our bread clips are different colours o.O Maybe it's because I live in Canada.

actually, it's different for every bakery.

I live in the Dallas TX area and the bread I buy has the color coding.

I never thought to consider the colors for freshness of bread

Here in Beercheeseville, er, Wisconsin, the locals have used colors for a long time.
If the bread has turned green , it's half price.

I have two loaves of bread in my bread box and they one has a pink tag the other peach...I have two with white tags in the freezer...