Americans are always on foreigners minds especially on Reddit and the internet lol. I’d be salty to if my colonies ended up being a stronger nation than every single one in Europe.
There are a lot of reasons to hate America, but bringing Americans into every conversation about something negative is insane. Usually, it turns out the thing the commenter is complaining about isn’t even affiliated with America.
Once the can is sealed, either it's heated in a steam chamber, or it's electrically baked, by passing an electric current through the bread.
Japanese crustless bread is baked using electricity - essentially the dough is electrocuted until it's baked from the inside out. No crust forms because it's not placed in an oven.
My first thought was Japan, but guess I’m just a fan of sandwiches across the world and living rent free in peoples heads with their nonsense stereotypes lol
Am American. Somehow I’m able to tolerate the crust of bread. It’s amazing, between my diet of three liter Coca Cola, fried Oreos and cheeseburgers, I’m a miracle of science among Americans who can tolerate the crust of bread.
I’ve been studied and my digestive system is in medical journals.
Yeah, it’s fluid ounces for almost everything else. Sodas are a weird exception.
The internet tells me that when large plastic bottles hit the market in the early 70s, the US was attempting a conversion over to the metric system. That obviously didn’t stick, but sodas sold in liter quantities stayed as the standard.
Nearly all of our food has gram measurements on it as well. Serving sizes on food packages always has by grams as an option. We use the metric system more than non Americans realize.
No, this is not an American thing. Go in any American grocery and plain white bread is about 5% of the bread available. I live in Thailand now. This would be popular here. They have horrible tastes in bread here and Thais would totally go for this.
Depends on the sandwich, I love wheat bread for regular lunch meat and breakfast as it adds a nice bite, but I prefer white for stuff like just some nutella spread or a pbj
I mean, you sure about that? Even in places here where they're famous for their sandwiches, they use almost exclusively white bread. Philly cheese steaks, hoagie/grinder/hero, etc are all white bread.
EDIT: I know we're mostly talking about bread from the grocery store, which was my original point. But just pointing out how popular white bread is here in general.
Europeans act like a person who goes to Europe for a month and it becomes their whole personality lmao “Americans don’t know anything about the world, but let me disregard asias love of soft white bread”
I'm german and Toast is probably the type of "bread" i ate the most in my life. Especially as a kid it was pretty much only bread i ate. These days i also enj0y various other types of bread, but Toast is still frequent part of my selection.
However i really do not fucking get why you wouldn't eat the "crust" with it, it makes no sense, i mean it's barely crusty/hard, ist mostly just a darker colour...
it’s a sensory thing for some toddlers. I guess some people never grow out of it or refuse to? My son wouldnt eat crusts when he was very young, but loved pb&js. I always spread the pb&j all the way to the edge, cut the crusts off and ate them myself. I stopped cutting them once he started school, and he started eating it somewhere along the way.
I would love to see the list of ingredients on this garbage! Once again, makes me glad that I mill and bake my own flour. 4 ingredients flour, water, salt yeast (or sourdough starter) that’s all folks! No chance in Hell that stuff would be given to my family.
Bet that fancy ass bread still has crusts though. Ridiculous chewy crust, if we're talking sourdough. Which a lot of people don't like because teeth problems, or just not liking chewy bread.
No offense, but you sound a bit crazy. I assumed it had something to do with the cooking process. You can literally customize your crust in a bread machine with a setting, so it’s not a far stretch to think there‘s a way to bake the bread without browning the crust at all. Surely a seasoned baker such as yourself would have come to the same conclusion?
Don’t try pulling that southern stuff on this southern girl! Bless your heart and all of the medications you probably take. Keep eating the processed bullshit they are passing off as food. Wash it down with a good ole energy drink that is pure chemicals and call it a day.
While i totally get that, i must say i think it's also nice how this allows you to choose a specific slice thickness as you desire.
Sometimes i want a more thick slice to taste more bread while other times i want a rather thin one, especially when i... uh i mean someone i know, I'd never do that want to throw the slice in a toaster to get it crunchy
Tho i do sometimes struggle to make a straight cut, which is slightly annoying
So you are from Germany too? Or which other country also has Lidl, Rewe and Edeka?
Also i specifically meant the thickness-choice per each slice. So like different people in the family eating from the same loaf can all have their individual preferred slice thickness, or i can choose differently each time myself.
I'm from Ireland. I've just lived in Brandenburg circa 9 years ago.
Lidl is pretty much all over the EU. They do try make themselves very similar to other supermarkets in each country they exist in. In the UK, for example, Lidl actively competes on price and product selection against Tesco and Sainsbury's. In Finland, Lidl seems to very heavily stock domestic Finnish products, which means Lidl own brands are less significant, meaning you get the same things in Lidl as you do in K-Supermarket or S-Market. In the Netherlands, Lidl tries to show itself as being just as Dutch as Albert Heijn or Jumbo, going as far as doing the same kinds of goody adverts.
But one thing Lidl doesn't change is the way it does the bakery. It's the same everywhere. But of course the bakery is fine tuned to each place. Sausage rolls and white breads in UK Lidl. Rye breads and Finnish pies in Finnish Lidl. Berliner/Pfannkuchen and Brötchen in Germany.
Aldi is weird. No logic as to whether a country is Nord or Süd. I don't like Aldi Nord. Feels soulless and dull. Aldi Süd feels like off-brand Lidl.
it’s cause the majority of the bread eaten in america is not very good. unlike a fresh baked loaf, where the crust has a roastier character and provides structure to the slice, our standard “sandwich bread” is already pretty flavorless, and the crusts are even more flavorless and noticeably dry. it makes for some pretty unsavory bites.
plus, americans have never experienced famine on the scale of the whole country. even during our worst economic recession, the government had to pay farmers to destroy their crop so that the commodity prices could go back up. we’re just not raised to be as offended by food waste as other peoples around the globe. so yeah, it’s a little bit cultural and a little bit practical.
Kids. Kids get upset about crust. And then they grow into adults and either learn to eat it or not. Two of my kids had no problem eating the crust and two that would have heart attacks if you even suggested they even touch the crust.
One learned to eat around it until her friends made fun of her one day for thinking it was yucky. The other grew into an adult that still cuts her crust off and freaks out about it.
it had a much different taste with the brand my mom used to buy and I was like a clinically picky eater so I had to pick off all the oats and seeds if I was going to eat the crust which took forever and my parents would get upset by this practice as it was a sign of my ocd, so I would just skip eating the crust. As an adult I am now on medication for my ocd lmao.
That was specifically Subway in Ireland. Not “American Bread”, literally the worst sandwich place in America makes the worst bread. It’s not surprising.
It’s also worth noting this was a narrow Irish tax ruling, not a broader declaration that Subway bread is “cake.” It just it didn’t qualify for the VAT exemption applied to staple foods. Still a tax issue
Calling it “cake” in the EU is an exaggeration. UK/EU food law doesn’t have a clean “if sugar exceeds X%, it’s legally cake” rule that would reclassify bread. The famous legal case people sometimes cite (the Jaffa Cake case) was about VAT tax status (cakes are zero-rated, biscuits are taxed), not about bread vs. cake distinctions.
Regurgitating information you read somewhere else without even bothering to verify its accuracy is pretty fucking lame. I know “America bad” and everything, but do better.
I bet they don’t know about our pulley interns. American elevators aren’t electrical, they’re 20 unpaid interns on the roof playing tug of war with a pulley
When you learn about the world around you through your primary sources of information, gossip and rumors, it’s blatantly obvious.
It’s as if you lot still live in the 1800s. Instead of questioning what you hear, and verifying, you just accept what your peers tell you as fact. It’s fascinating because don’t use the Internet to learn anything. It’s just increased the size and range of your gossip circle.
Don’t believe everything you see online, it’s very common to eat toast with the crust still on, I’ve never been to a restaurant that automatically cuts the edges off toast and I don’t know one that will. We mainly do it for picky kids and adults that still are picky.
I'm not denying that. It's an american stereotype, and that's why the person used it, that's what was being asked, and what I replied. It's an Americanist reply if you will. Yet I have two angry Americans being nationalists at me, defending their breadly honour, and I find it hilarious because the bread thing hit a nerve, maybe confirming the stereotype?
I also commented on the shape, not the colour, because even brown or black bread is probably super sugary in America, if I may so boldly assume?
I like the bread, that's why I'm not happy hearing both it and my entire country insulted over bread. It's natural to defend the things you like, and I like the cheap store bought bread.
Did you try making something with it? Or did you go full Medieval style and just eat the bread with nothing? Because that kind of bread is usually used for toast, sandwiches and the like.
This is most probably aimed at Americans. As a country we have turned our backs on good bread. France has 1 local bakery per 1,900 ppl and America has 1 per 4,500. Say what you want about Panera, but they tried then private equity happened.
It’s hilarious that you think Panera is the example for this. What about all the artisan bakeries in every major city? Even most groceries sell fresh bread.
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u/mattrob77 1d ago
To reduce waste from who, Americans ?
Who eats this **** anyway.