From the OP.
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sssshhhhhh …
giggle, giggle, giggle.
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It’s not very believable that you can’t get any store-bought sandwich bread that passes muster on Long Island, but you can certainly bake your own on the stovetop without an oven — use a Dutch oven or similar heavy-bottomed vessel (or large pressure cooker) with a layer of salt at the bottom and a trivet.
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Our Dutch isn’t big enough. I’ll just wait til I can fix my oven.
I’ve survived 2 weeks, I can survive 4.
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Reply to older post, but: (Curmudgeon mode on) That’s the reason I have been baking the family bread for years. The store stuff has become slightly less reprehensible over time, but 99+% is rubbish. I resent the fact that our choices are between crap and having to source good ingredients not available at the grocery store and make it yourself. Same goes for food in general. It makes me cranky when I watch food shows from overseas and see thriving farmers market that aren’t mostly premade stuff and kitsch, and bakeries that produce good loaves and pastries. Food culture in this part of the world consists mostly of whatever the shills and marketers can convince the stores to sell and the people to buy.(Curmudgeon mode now off)
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Well, the bread I just posted is neither crap nor close to it, and I’m rather spoiled as someone who grew up in the motherland of bread 
Do they only sell it in plastic bags ? Many supermarkets here sell their good bread from local bakeries in paper bags so that the crust stays crispy for a longer time
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is that Aldi?
This is bread from Aldi, not an artisanal CA bakery 
@Owen yeppers! I also posted about it in the Aldi thread
Even the large supermarkt (Safeway, Ralphs etc) chains here sell bread from different sources
Aldi, too?
And as you may or may not have realized by now, the rest of the US ain’t California 
Living in Boston wasn’t different with the bread options in supermarkets
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Another large city. You do realize not everyone lives in a metro area, yes?
Did the Aldi branches in Boston sell their bread in paper bags from artisanal bakeries?
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I never go to Aldi - I never liked their business practices in Germany and we always “boycotted” them
They seem to treat their employees here better than most US supermarket chains
