On our Facebook group, listeners discuss jocular explanations for air holes in bread, such as That’s where the baker jumped through, and That’s where the baker crawled through, and for a really big hole, That’s where the baker and his wife jumped through. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Where the Baker Jumped Through”
On our Facebook group, Laura Jean Jensen asks, I’ve not seen a large air pocket in commercially baked bread in years. In Minnesota in the 1960s, my mom looked at those holes and said, that’s where the baker jumped through. My mom raised us in Minnesota, but she was from western Montana. Has anyone else heard this phrase?
And she included a picture of a piece of bread that had a big hole in the middle, as sometimes happens. And it turns out that several people who had German heritage said, yeah, we know this phrase. That’s where the baker crawled through or that’s where the baker went through. If it’s a bigger hole, you might say that’s where the baker and his wife went through.
That’s lovely. I love that idea.
You might feel like you got shorted as a kid when you get the piece of bread where you can’t put any butter, you can’t put any jelly, right?
Yeah.
My siblings didn’t get the one with the big hole.
I got the one with the big hole.
Where the baker and his wife jumped through.
That’s lovely.
