Tiger Bread! (Asda Tiger Bread)

Member Name: elizabethcullen

Product:	Asda Tiger Bread
Date:	13/09/09 (63 review reads)
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Advantages: Versatile, cheap, fresh, etc

Disadvantages: not much

Tiger Bread has of late become a staple in our house, and something that you will always find in the cupboard or sitting on the bench, definitely in the shopping bags when we return from Asda. Although we had tried it a few times before as a quick snack, or to dip in oil on a slightly Mediterranean themed night, we'd never really bought it again, just buying it on occasion until last month. Also, we had originally bought it in the form 'tigger bread,' as my younger brother loves the character tigger, but there is no difference its just the name, a picture on the packet and of course a much higher price for the same bread!

Anyway, last month we were doing our shopping quite late at about 8pm, there weren't that many people left in the shop and while we were at the end with a full trolley we spotted a shelf in the bakery section with goods that were massively reduced, called 'whoopses,' because of the bright yellow sticker on their packet which declares "whoops,' before telling you the price it was and the price it now is. Along with some cakes, pastries and branded packets of sliced bread there were also some uncut, fresh loaves that had been made that day, some of them tiger bread. They had all started off around the £1 mark, some were a bit under at 80p, but now all of these loaves were under 15p, some even as cheap as 5p. As it was definitely good value even if we weren't that keen on it, we put one in the trolley, and made plans to eat it when we returned home, thinking it would be best eaten on the day we bought it.
When we returned home and had put all of the shopping away, (which takes a while for us), our attentions turned to our new snack. What should we do with it? How should we eat it? In the end we just decided on something simple and had it with some hot chicken we had also bought at Asda earlier, then sliced the bread into medium slices and buttered it.

It was quite different from normal bread, yet not so different you wouldn't know it was bread. Different, yet not exotic. It smelt lovely and fresh, the smell of bread is for some reason one that I've always really liked. Sliced, it makes about 10 normal thickness slices, although the height is reduced compared to normal sliced packet bread. It has quite a chewy outer crust which is in comparison to the deliciously soft, moist inside dough. It is really a good change to normal bread like Warburtons or Kingsmill, it has a fresh from the baker taste that you just don't get from them.

It is readily available in all the Asda's, at least in my area anyway as I haven't really had the chance to look at any others. Just look in the bakery section next to the fresh bread, the smell will lead you!

Something really good about it is how versatile it is, you can have it loads of different ways with many different things:- you can have it as a sandwich with endless possibilities of fillings, put some tomato sauce and grated cheese on a slice then grill it to make pizza bread, or spread pate on the top after you've toasted it, and many more options.

One of the disadvantages I can think of is the limited shelf life, this is of course reduced greatly if you buy a reduced loaf. It normally is at its best the day you buy it, sometimes the morning after as well.

Overall, a good value buy and something that I would recommend.

Summary: Useful staple