People are only just learning what the colored tags on bread packaging mean – and it’s actually quite important
YOU probably don’t stop to analyze the color of the tag on your bread – but after this, you might take another second to examine it.
The tag colors seem to hold information that isn’t immediately obvious, and people are mind blown.
“I was today years old when I found out that the color tags of the bread were based on the day it was baked,” Brandon (@brandonguss) said with an incredulous voice in a TikTok video uncovering bits of random information.
“I didn’t know that.
“I was going to try to act smart and be like ‘oh yeah duh’, but no I don’t know that,” he said.
Apparently, a cream-colored tag means the bread was baked on Monday, orange indicates Tuesday, yellow is for Wednesday, blue for Thursday, green for Friday, red for Saturday, and white for Sunday.
The color-coded tags serve an important purpose, as they show the date the bread was baked and packaged, according to Yahoo.
It’s a way for staff to keep track of when things were baked, so they can replace older loaves with fresh ones when they need to.
People flooded the TikTok comments section with thoughts about the different tag colors, many indicating that they hadn’t come across a majority of the colors.
“Are they always baked on Sunday?!” one questioned.
“Always baked on Sunday, I ain’t ever see no other color,” another person mirrored that sentiment.
“We only have the white color tags in the Netherlands,” chimed in a third.
“In the Netherlands, we always have Sunday bread,” someone else stressed.
“I got Friday bagels.”
“I always got Monday bread.”
“My bread tags are always white though.”
“Y’ALL HAVE COLORED BREAD TAGS?!?!?” a mind-blown person inquired.