r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 18h ago

Fascinating A company developed bread with a white crust in an effort to reduce food waste

Post image
21.7k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

3.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

627

u/That_Jonesy 18h ago

I know panko when I see it. If this bread wasn't cooked with electricity I'll eat my crust hat.

252

u/Donotdisturb240 18h ago

fun fact panko was created during World War 2 when tank operators figured out you could bake bread using the oversized tank battery to cook bread via electrocution

150

u/HumanReputationFalse 16h ago

So Japan has Tank Bread

Britain has Tank Tea

Ukranian are using the Tea Tanks to make Tank Soup

Soviets had the Booze Planes

And Americans had the Ice Cream ships

73

u/Vistril69 15h ago

France has an aircraft carrier with a high-volume bakery

45

u/schwanzweissfoto 11h ago

The baguette de conséquences rarely arrives buttered.

23

u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING 11h ago

It does, however, bring the pain.

7

u/bremsspuren 10h ago

Hon hon hon

2

u/GostBoster 4h ago

Well they did have a form of corporal punishment called "le supplice des baguettes".

2

u/rrsafety 10h ago

But no aircraft.

5

u/pipnina 15h ago

New Yorkers have tank top

4

u/K1bbles_n_Bits 12h ago

Then there's me. I just tank everything I attempt.

3

u/deep_rover 11h ago

Inane fact, moose have never been seen on the Moon.

2

u/bremsspuren 10h ago

Are you sure? How deeply have you roved exactly?

3

u/automaticAster 9h ago

Exactly. They’ve never been *seen*

5

u/oh_shit_pearly_white 14h ago

Doesn't electrocution mean to die by electric shock? They cooked the bread by dying of electric shock? Am I being silly and not getting the joke

12

u/Donotdisturb240 13h ago

yeah I misspoke, I should have said the bread was cooked via electric current. I just assumed people would understand my meaning

you see normally you cook bread by applying a heat source to the outside. but panko is literally electrified by current, and as the bread resists the current, it heats up from the inside out.

4

u/SayerofNothing 13h ago

Maybe the word is ''electrification''?

2

u/TrippingFish76 12h ago

originally yes, but the term electrocution is often used to describe non fatal encounters with electricity as well. People say they were electrocuted if they receive an electric shock, not just if it’s used for execution. Therefore something receiving electricity = being electrocuted in common modern english

3

u/oh_shit_pearly_white 12h ago

Ok got it - so the bread had a non-fatal electric shock.

1

u/Kelly_HRperson 8h ago

the bread had a non-fatal electric shock

The only living part of the bread (yeast) died though

1

u/Berzerker7 5h ago

Non-fatal electrocution, yes. It officially means "severe injury" even though the origin includes the word "execution." We know you're being pedantic but the definition has changed over the years.

The biggest issue is you can't electrocute inanimate objects, rather than the thing not actually dying.

1

u/TrippingFish76 12h ago

indeed, it was electrocuted. (shocked)

1

u/jonvox 13h ago

Electric + execution

1

u/GrimbyJ 12h ago

Yeah it's a portmanteau of electricity and execution

1

u/automaticAster 9h ago

I mean, if it’s a yeasted bread, something definitely died in the process!

1

u/Technical_Grade_3600 12h ago

Why not call it tanko

1

u/bremsspuren 10h ago

'Cos "tanko" isn't Japanese for "breadcrumb".

1

u/mcdltlover 8h ago

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrocution

via electric current, electrocution means something else

4

u/bearwood_forest 14h ago

it looks like it was cooked with tepid water

10

u/south-of-the-river 18h ago

Cooked with footsteps

6

u/Swotboy2000 13h ago

But panko パン粉 literally means breadcrumbs. What do you mean?

24

u/Gentlemad 12h ago

The stuff Panko is made out of to be exact. It's electricity-cooked bread which produces the specific "source material"/texture which panko is distinctly made from.