BREAD followers are at baking level — over Mothers Pride Plain’s disappearance from outlets.
The iconic Scottish white loaves haven’t been on shelves for round two weeks.
One shopper informed The Scottish Sun: “It’s been terrible – different loafs simply don’t offer you what Mothers Pride does.
“I’ve requested workers in my native grocery store however no precise purpose has been given for why they’re out of inventory.
“I hope it’s again quickly – my sandwiches haven’t been the identical for the previous fortnight.”
Insiders declare the shock scarcity is right down to a packaging blunder meaning the slices keep on with the wrapping.
The Glasgow-produced loaf has been wrapped in wax-coated paper because it was first offered in 1936.
It will now transition to a normal bread bag – with the Scottish batch plant receiving an costly improve to deal with the brand new supplies.
Makers Hovis final night time apologised and mentioned they hope to have the staple again subsequent month.
Hovis informed complaining punters of “supply problems”.
In an e-mail seen by the Scottish Sun, the bakers mentioned: “We have had issues with the commissioning of the packing lines and are currently unable to produce from this line.”
They added that they’re working with suppliers to attempt to resolve the problem as shortly as attainable however the bread might be off the shelves for some time longer.
A spokesman for proprietor Hovis mentioned: “We apologise for the disruption to supply. It will be back on shelves early in June.”
Mothers Pride’s Scots model is made in a big baking tray, which suggests the loaves solely kind a crust on the highest and backside.
It differs from a pan loaf, which is baked in a person tray which kinds a crust round the entire bread.
The two varieties of bread had been immortalised within the Jeely piece music – a Scots people music written within the 1960s – within the line: “If it’s butter, cheese or jeely, if the breed is plain or pan”.
The Glasgow manufacturing unit is the final remaining Batch Plant within the UK that may nonetheless make Plain loaf at scale.
During the 1970s and 80s, it was a best-selling model of white bread within the UK.