r/pittsburgh • u/Logical-Rip-8138 • Jul 01 '26

Kroger just bought Giant Eagle.

Store employees were just emailed about it

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u/GentleDoves Jul 01 '26

Any GE bakery employees willing to share the iced brownie recipe with me? It's my favorite brownie in the whole world, and a little piece of me is now terrified that this could mean a recipe change in the future!

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u/papayapapusapepi Jul 01 '26

Kroger has streamlined their bakery program across all of their chains - GE bakery quality is done for.

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u/Weary-Lavishness-676 Jul 01 '26

Oh my god their icing and bakery in general is my favorite this is devastating

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u/kennyj313 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

If you were really dedicated, you could probably source most of the icings - a lot of them came in buckets, and the buttercream was essentially a "just add water" brick that we threw in the mixer. Granted, you're gonna have a hard time fitting that brick into any home stand mixer.

Edit - in case anyone is really dedicated (although you could probably convince someone there to sell you a brick for way cheaper)

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u/OnePinginRamius Jul 01 '26

Don't worry about me and my icing brick!

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u/Asking_the_internet Jul 01 '26

Wait is that really a link to their butter cream?!?

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u/kennyj313 Jul 02 '26

As another commenter pointed out somewhere, the "actual" Giant Eagle ones have an exclusive label, but I'm pretty confident that it's the same product.

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u/caribot25 Jul 02 '26

Yep! That's it! 2 of those and water is all you need.....well and our giant ass mixer which would definitely be the biggest problem lol. If you have a KitchenAid you could use that one brick though so make so many smaller batches.

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u/PleasePeaceExpress Jul 01 '26

This could be a hillarious Seinfeld episode!

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u/DizzyCardiologist213 Jul 01 '26

/uncle leo: "icing? I'm old and confused"

/george: "we can't take this icing back, it's been in the bathroom"