Tikkabik

I'm really kinda sad about this. The local news is reporting on how the regional Wonder Bread bakery started being demolished today to make way for a high-end expansion to the local mall. It was a six-acre facility that, at its peak, produced half a million loaves of bread a day, though it's been shuttered since 1999.

I went there once when I was a kid, on a field trip either for school or Cub Scouts, I honestly can't remember what for specifically. But it was awe-inspiring to a kid and a future carb-addict -- a huge, automated factory where raw materials would be seemingly magically into bread. And the smell was great. Wonder Bread is crap, obviously, but when you're eight, you don't know the difference.