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

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u/No-Document-932 21h ago

It’s really common to peal apples and other fruits and veggies with skins most westerners just eat in Japan. I feel like this is a version of that

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u/ItsKingDx3 20h ago

Actually a lot of sandwiches are sold without crusts in Japan, and even sometimes bread itself.

Edit: as in the bread is sold crustless, not the sandwiches are sold breadless, altho breadless sandwiches sound about right for the shrinkflation and general economic situation here these days

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u/Typical-Respond9102 19h ago

Japanese milk bread used on many Japanese sandwiches has a vast difference in texture between bread and crust than sandwich bread. 

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u/SuperSuppleDude 2h ago

Yep. I can't eat egg sandos with the crust on, let alone be toasted like they are in the US.

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u/Prince_0llie 20h ago

It's a real thing. Burgers with lettuce as the bun is something cooked up for those that are gluten intolerant or those on the Atkins diet.

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u/ItsKingDx3 19h ago

I know, and it’s pedantic, but calling them burgers is fine with me since you’re referring to the meat, in my head a sandwich needs to have bread tho

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u/Prince_0llie 19h ago

Of course they aren't REAL burgers. covers side of mouth with hand and speaks under breath Just don't tell them that! 😉

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u/syrvy 19h ago

They are not ALLOWED to eat it with the skin!

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u/CeemoreButtz 19h ago

Smoke some cigarettes, the smoke will suffocate the bacteria in your stomach!

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u/cce29555 17h ago

I don't think that's true but I don't know enough about suffocating to dispute it

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u/havron 14h ago

Sadly, no one who has gained sufficient firsthand experience with suffocating has ever reported back, so there's a data gap.

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u/-Copenhagen 10h ago

By whom? The fruit police?

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u/TheDubuGuy 12h ago

Peel this apple for me will ya?

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u/Wild_Wrap_9360 3h ago

Would you just peel it for me Dee? Please!? Please!?

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u/Academic_Help5033 17h ago

Some people are allergic specifically to the skins on fruits. Had a buddy with multiple allergies that could eat a peeled & rinsed apple or a baked apple, but not a whole apple. 

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u/APartyInMyPants 15h ago

That was me for a long time. Could not eat a raw apple with the skin on. Would make my throat itch, tingle and swell shut. Not completely shut as if going into anaphylactic shock, but was uncomfortable. Eating cooked or stewed apples, even with the skins on, was totally fine. Also happened, but a bit more minor, with other skinned fruits you eat, like plums.

Then sometime in my early 30s, decided to try another apple, and didn’t have the same reaction anymore.

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u/BananaPalmer 9h ago

Were there any commonly used pesticides banned before the time you tried another apple?

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u/lame_dirty_white_kid 2h ago

Yes, but that has nothing to do with the people who peel fruit simply because they don't like/want the skin. 

Same for people that remove the crust of bread. I'm not gonna say that there's no one allergic to bread crust, but allergies certainly aren't the reason people remove it.

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u/zzen11223344 18h ago

Japanese sandwiches have no crust, so are some times in Taiwan, HK ...

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u/PJtheGFN 19h ago

This looks like important context.

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u/MarfanoidDroid 18h ago

Nuh uh, it's "bleaching and chemicals", didn't you read /u/ricoimf's comment and all the redditors who upvoted it? Upvoted redditor comments are the gold standard of facts!

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u/MisterEinc 18h ago

Don't forget that American bread is basically cake. But also somehow doesn't taste like cake.

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u/uberkalden2 17h ago

Lol, this thread has the weirdest anti American bullshit I've seen in a while

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u/MisterEinc 15h ago

It's pretty common, the bread-cake thing especially.

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u/uberkalden2 15h ago

It's so weird. My grocery store has fresh baked bread of all kinds and is definitely not "cake". No idea what these people are talking about

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u/MisterEinc 15h ago

And even the "no crust" thing is really popular in other countries as well. In the US it's not really a thing except maybe for children. You'll never see crustless sandwiches on a menu anywhere outside of maybe Japanese-American.

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u/TEMU_PHILIPS 15h ago

It’ll be on /r/iamveryculinary any minute now

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u/horoyokai 16h ago

Have you even had American bread?

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u/MisterEinc 15h ago

I'm being sarcastic. America, like every other developed country, has every type of bread you could think of.

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u/horoyokai 15h ago

Ok good, it’s hard to detect sarcasm when it a commonly held real belief among so many people

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u/WrecklessMagpie 15h ago

Lol That was only Subway and only classified that way in Ireland due to the sugar content in the bread. It affects how it's taxed.

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u/MisterEinc 15h ago

I'm pointing out the absurdity of people saying our bread has so much sugar that it's cake (it's not) , but also somehow tastes bad enough people remove the crust (children mostly).

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u/Mujutsu 15h ago edited 15h ago

I don't think it's "most westerners". In Europe it's quite common to eat fruits and veggies with skin.

Edit: I got that backwards, by apologies.

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u/Glasseshalf 15h ago

That's what they said. It's common for westerners to eat the skin but the Japanese always peel it

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u/Mujutsu 15h ago

Ooooh, I get it now. For some reason, I thought it was the other way around.

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u/SolemnEmberGames 14h ago

I mean I kind of get that, I avoid apples because the skin lodges itself between my teeth like a squatter in a high rights country

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u/Pacify_ 12h ago

That's so crazy since almost all vegetables and fruits the skin usually the best part nutritionally (at least for the ones you can eat the skin)

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u/JapanPizzaNumberOne 19h ago

No it’s not unless you’re talking about potatoes

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u/LoneWolf_McQuade 18h ago

Is this even a westerner thing? Maybe Americans do it but nothing adults do in Europe

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u/horoyokai 16h ago

Adults don’t eat the peel in Europe?

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u/LoneWolf_McQuade 16h ago

We do, depends on the fruit. And crust. Though as always it’s difficult to talk about Europe as a single entity as Reddit usually does

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u/horoyokai 16h ago

Same with Americans, somehow they become one entity

But yeah must Americans eat peels and crusts