>>Wait - you've NEVER had a Twinkie or HoHo ??? And you call yourself American??
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>Yes, never! That might be why I am 6' 7"! :)
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>We had some great European style bakeries in San Francisco, when I was growing up. I find nothing like them today.

Hey, that's true - about five years ago, I was looking for something to make a breakfast in a grocery somewhere in SF, and found something miraculous: bread that I could, without any second thoughts, call bread. It took me years to find it!