A "Corner" Bakery Briefing

Our corner: Preston and Forest. My dear friend, Kimberly (Briant) Donner and I used to meet once a week at Corner Bakery, Preston/Forest. Sadly, Kim - or Kimber, as I so affectionately call her - moved to Galveston last year and now resides in Houston. Our breakfasts were always the same: Oatmeal and Coffee. When it comes to oatmeal, I am pretty particular but Corner Bakery has consistently the best around. It's starchy, creamy (they claim its made with skim milk) and the oats are softly broken down, evidence that has been slow cooked.*

As you can see in the picture, the oatmeal is served with a sugar sprinkled, fruit studded piece of toast, called the "sweet crisp". Aptly named, the sweet crisp always proved to be the focus of our attention during breakfast for a few reasons: 1. It is sooo good. 2. It is covered in enough sugar to induce Type 2 Diabetes. Being the typical Baylor girls we are, Kimber and I cannot knowingly consume such copious amounts of sugar in one sitting, thus we remedied the problem with a knife, fork or spoon in hand. Using whichever utensil we had at our disposal, we would scrape the sugar crystals- which measure about 1/4" square, seriously. - off the sweet crisps onto our plates and often those little crystal cubes wound up in unexpected places and they would reveal themselves over the next few days (i.e. in your hair, your purse, your bra, etc.) We had fun and I'm sure it was fun to watch us girls, dissecting the crisps with the precision of brain surgeons.

I am writing to let the world (and mostly, Kimber in Houston) know that the recession has had a positive effect on Corner Bakery. Thanks to cost-cutting and food service controls, the amount of sugar on the said sweet crisps has been drastically reduced, finally allowing for the perfect sweet crisp.

As Chris Farley once said to Pepper Boy, Dana Carvey on SNL, "That's the perfect amount of pepper, Pepper Boy!"

Perfect Amount of Sugar
I want to exclaim, "That's the perfect amount of sugar, Sugar Girl!"

*We can personally testify for the "slow cooked" oats. Kimber and I arrived early one morning only to find that the person in charge of cooking the oatmeal the previous night had forgotten! And it took 30 plus minutes for the oatmeal to slow cook. We waited, of course. Note to self: Don't drink more than one cup of coffee on an empty stomach.