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Mr. Pickle's Sandwich Shops carry fresh baked dutch crunch bread. My favorite is the one on Watt and Whitney in Sacramento. They bake it fresh all day long, and it makes the absolute best tasting sandwich I've ever had.

Another excellent place to pick up some fresh dutch crunch is the Sanitary Bakery in South San Francisco -- they have been baking it for as long as I can remember!

Thanks for the info -- can't wait to try to bake my own!

@mmmassey & thepirateking: dutch crunch is always available at the osborne village Safeway and at least sometimes at gunn's.

Now I'm inspired to find DC here in Orange County...I have friends in SF and I'll have to ask them to take me to sample Dutch Crunch the next time I'm in the Bay. Or...how well can this bread keep on a flight? I have friends on vacation in Amsterdam right now!

@mmmassey Another winnipeger! WooT! Yeah, you can find dutch crunch in Safeway here from time to time, but in Thunder Bay Ontario where I went to school you could get it all the time. I just came back from groceries, now I want to go back and see if I can get a loaf of this for dinner, even if it is raining and the kids are down for a nap.

Another Wegmans fan here. Their Marco Polo bread seems quite similar to Dutch Crunch. I buy it every so often as a treat for the kids. Usually I make my own bread and rolls. I'll have to experiment and see if I can come up with my own version.

I didn't know Galli's possibly originated Dutch Crunch!

I dig ANY sandwich at Darby Dan's in SSF on Dutch Crunch. My friends who grew up in SSF swore by Little Lucca's!

Fresh, hot DC - my mom would stalk our local Safeway for a fresh loaf.

Ohmygosh I used to always get tuna on Dutch Crunch at Le Boulanger but totally forgot about it when I moved to Seattle. Wow. Now I know I need to miss it here and sandwich ordering will never be the same.

forgot all about dutch crunch rolls! but i used to like them when i lived in berkeley!

nothing is better than a smoked turkey old fashioned from Village Cheese House on Dutch Crunch. Sweet, crunchy bread. Tangy Pickles. Smokey meat. All brought together by the rich spread and swiss cheese. Damn i want one.

@runnereater Togo's is based out of Northern California (San Jose specifically), so it's no surprise that they would have DC in many of their franchises.

That said, try out the Dutch Crunch at Mr. Pickles in Los Gatos -- http://www.yelp.com/biz/mr-pickles-sandwich-shop-los-gatos

@zamboni and @jengraf--I adore the Marco Polo bread from Wegman's (although I usually don't eat white flour)--that bread is very soft, as it is dusted with rice flour, and this looks more crunchy.

had no idea it was a bay area thing unless the koreans at Koryodang co-opted it somehow cuz I always pick this up in Manhattan's k-town (and at all their branches); the bacon dutch is a killer.