There was only one thing about Bürgen that was German and it was not the bread

Two dots above a vowel and a loaf of bread becomes continental. New Zealand is about to lose a German bread that was never German, and as the only German in sight, I have been invited to grieve. I will pass. Bürgen was invented in Auckland in 1987 by a master baker called Doug Leighton. Australia took it five years later, and an Australian company, George Weston Foods, has owned it ever since.…