*~Conventional is a good fallback position isn't it?~*

The one thing that comes to mind when reading this topic, makes me think of how times have changed and people developed, but yet, returning to conventional methods of living always seem to work best. A simple example could be how years ago, people who supplied (and still supply) Woolworths and other Supermarkets with freshly baked breads and pastries used to bake each bread or pastry from scratch and with true manual labour (if you can call it that). Things used to taste home-made and fresh and you could almost taste the persons passion for what they have produced. Each batch had an individual taste. Nowadays, with the rapid growth of technology, we have machines that do everything for us. All these producers of breads and pastries need to do is press a button. Now everything tastes the same, and seem to be more boring. Yet, we still have home bakers who supply us with real home baked goodness which is the more conventional way of doing things. We often find these little jewels at slow food markets over weekends where the home-made foods are celebrated and devoured. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather prefer good old conventional methods of baking if the end result is that tasty... YUM!