Garlic Bread

I have written about a cheap can of biscuits recently. Let’s talk about garlic toast. In my family, bread was important with meals. It is used as a catalyst to push the food onto your fork. It is a tasty side to many dishes. When you go out to a restaurant, garlic bread is a nice tasty stick from an Olive Garden, or a nice piece of french bread. Either case, it’s normally delicious and I always want more of it. 

Growing up we didn’t always have a loaf of French bread to make garlic toast in our house. So, we used hamburger or hot dog buns split in half. Both gave us the catalyst needed for pushing food up on our fork. 

Garlic bread is one of those items that can go with many dishes. Italian food, chicken fried anything, barbecue, or even just a bowl of soup. Many believe that you can only have garlic bread a certain way. Each family has their own way to prepare their garlic bread. I know families that buy extra loads of french bread and freeze them so they are prepared. Crazy, I know. 

Then there are families that just use hamburger and hot dog buns. They serve a dual purpose. So, you can always be prepared. Chili dogs, plain ol’ good hot dog, or garlic bread with the spaghetti you made for supper. That is my family, at least my immediate family. We love it! We actually like it better than French bread because the crust doesn’t get hard and crunchy.

The choice we make as a family to eat garlic bread our way may be redneck or country in its appearance, and there is nothing wrong with that assumption. I know people that only drink certain bottled water, that is their choice. Some people will not eat seafood, that is okay, although I really question those people’s sanity. 

The point is, you can eat your garlic bread any way you want, it’s your bread to break. We need to remember that people still have a choice in this world what bread to have at a meal. Why would we let some random group of people determine that only one type of bread is acceptable for garlic bread? 

Now take that thought and apply it to life. Why would we let some random group of people make other choices about our life? There was a time in our country when many groups screamed from the rooftops about your choice, and how  it’s your right to choose. Others don’t have a right to choose for you. Now those same people want to tell you how to live your life. They want to tell you what to put into your body. These people want to control where you sit, what you see, and what you say.

If we won’t let someone choose what garlic bread we bring into our house, why would we let them tell us what to do with more important topics. I think for now, I will stick with my hamburger buns and hot dog buns for garlic bread. 

Stephen King wrote “It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”