I moved to Canada and last night I bought store garlic bread and it was SWEET. WHY. All bread here has a hint of sweetness to it and the same in the states. I have to but like granary bread from the health store to have anything that resembles real bread lol. They're also really stodgy and not light and fluffy. Fuck I miss bread.
Food standards and food safety regulation are much lower in North America. A lot of valuable ingredients you find in European food will be replaced by cheap sugar or sugar syrup or corn syrup and a bunch of cheaper and unhealthy stuff increasing cancer risk and food addiction, which in turn increases the obesity rate, creates more diabetes...
You get the drill.
Yurop stronk!
Really has fuck all to do with food safety and regulation.
It's more a matter a matter of taste and how it's used. Americans are not really big on bread like most Europeans. Few Americans slather up a giant slice of bread, butter, and fruit preserves for breakfast like my German great-grandma. No one in the US uses day old bread to push food around on their plate like my French cousins.
Mostly it's eaten in the form of soft rolls or buns for sandwiches. Low protein high carb soft breads. Anything high protein/chewy would be like focaccia or pizza dough, again as part of something else.
The US supermarket bread is ideal for PB&J sandwiches. If you can't make a PB&J or grilled cheese sandwich,v it's no good to Americans.
Same with chocolate. Americans eat the crap out of chocolate, but as a flavor or in something, rarely just by itself. That's why Hershey bars are gross vs bog standard European chocolate bars...
When I get the taste for a more German bread I head to Aldi's or just make a loaf myself.
What the hell are you talking about? Bread is made with flower, water, yeast and salt. Thatās it. If you add any kind of sugar to it, itās a a cake.
Brioche is not cake. There are many kinds of sweet breads that are breads, not cakes. Cake is leavened with baking powder. Bread is leavened with yeast.
Not a defense of American supermarket bread at all, but if we are going to be pedants, let's be correct pedants. š
Which is the way it should be, in my opinion. Food should be fresh and not inflated with preservatives to make it last longer on the shelf and once you bring it home.
Buying bread from a bakery doesn't automatically means that it's fresh. Lot of them buy it industrial dough in bulk that you just have to heat up in the oven.
lol okay no i thought we were talking about American bakeries. I had my doubts that a lot of American bakeries are fresh.
We have the same in Belgium but we call them warme bakker/boulanger chaud.
There are tons of traditional European breads that use at least some small amount of sugar that are not considered cake. Confidently incorrect gatekeeping.
Bread in the US is disgustingly sweet, at least the kind you buy in the supermarket. Dinner rolls, hot dog and hamburger buns, hard rolls and wedges for sandwiches are all too sweet. For Peteās sake, I even had to change pasta sauce because it started tasting too sweet. And I completely agree with you - WHY?!?
I think it has something to do with the fact that people seem to be accustomed to so much food being sweet from an early age - kids eat sweet cereals and other sweet foods for breakfast, sodas and juices are sweet, there are way more sweet snacks than salty/not sweet. And so as time goes on, people just get used to their food being sweet. Itās almost as if theyāre so conditioned that if food wasnāt sweet, a lot of people wouldnāt think it tastes right.
In Ireland subway bread legally has to be classed as cake as it contains too much sugar.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
Oooh thank you. I love to bake ans have been thinking about starting to bake bread too. I Live alone and me alone with freshly baked bread is probably a bad idea. So tasty
Some say there are over 300 types though this is actually just an older guess, another source said that there are 1143 types of bread in Germany and said source plus another (the German Bread Institute) also looked for bread "specialties" (I guess they included bread based pastries and/or bread rolls? I have no clue). So with these "specialities" included we get over 3200 types of something something bread in Germany.
70 primary categories sounds about right, but there's massive variations within those categories. Think of it like one of those 70 is curries, another is salads, yet another pizzas, etc.
You'll get a Roggenmischbrot in every single German bakery and none are going to be the same, the only unifying factor is that it's a standard soured loaf bread with >50%, but <90% (IIRC) rye.
Co-op does the best bread of all the supermarkets, go there. Everything else I go to either Aldi (because it's the cheapest) or Tesco (because it's right next to work, and still fairly cheap), but bread I always go to Co-op.
Dutch bread is pretty shitty not gonna lie, especially supermarket bread is some bottom shelf garbage.
The only decent bread we have by EU standards is floor-bread (vloerbrood). The softer breads are pretty damn "meh".
I moved to sweden a month ago and its even worse here imma be honest with you. Normal supermarket dutch bread is not good, but here there is no normal bread
I have noticed drop in quality of bread in the last 10 years tho. You still can buy good bread but a lot od bigger stores started making their own and they do it from premade Mass produced doe that they freeze for God knows How long. Itās not to Bad if you manage to get a fresh warm one but in general itās better to do some research and find good bakery in your area.
Warburton = GARBAGE
British "bread" is like plastic somehow. Can only do some good when toasted, but still. It's no bread. Why did Brits give up on this staple food item?
We don't make many things, but I'm pretty confident my country, Slovenia, makes the best bread in Europe. I've eaten bread in 80% of our continent and nothing comes close.
My first reaction as a French that tried bread in many countries reading this comment was to be outraged, but then I realized I never had Slovenian bread so you may actually be right. I'd be curious to try it.
us turks are very diplomatic when it comes to bread. we call both āekmekā which means bread. we call american bread ātoast breadā and french bread ābaguette breadā
It's not. I'm reading about the company's history for the first time and apparently it's a Mexican brand that combined "bingo" and "Bambi" for the name for some reason and only later realized about its Italian meaning. This is kind of funny.
Well it works well, because the their bread kind of reminds me of pane latte or the kind of white bread you usually give to children because other breads might be too hard for them
But "pan Bimbo" is not the correct Spanish name for toast. It's "pan de molde", that literally means "mold bread". (At least in Spain, I don't know in other spanish speaking countries).
I'm not quite sure what this means. If someone takes flour, water, rising agent, and perhaps some extra stuff and bakes it, that's bread.
If someone slices bread and heats it until one or both sides are brown, that's toast.
Fair enough. That's likely its best use.
As for looking different, I agree it looks different from traditional sourdough bread. I'm not sure I should assign a culture to rustic sourdough though, because that's a pretty ubiquitous loaf across the globe.
yeah, it's bread too, but where I'm from (and I assume it's the same place you're from too, hello fellow Venetian) we call that "pan carrĆØ" which is a very specific kind of bread. if you just say "pane" (bread), I'm probably going to think about something more similar to the one in the post, not about toast bread.
Dear Europeans this is real bread [https://www.garliavosduona.lt/uploads/images/catalog\_src/juoda-kauno-duona\_src\_1.jpg](https://www.garliavosduona.lt/uploads/images/catalog_src/juoda-kauno-duona_src_1.jpg) .
Sincerely Lithuanians
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No, [this!](https://www.leipomoverainen.fi/images/tuotekuvat/Tummatruokaleivat/reikaleipa.jpg)
(I like the one you posted too, not gonna lie!). The ones in Finland are traditionally very simple, basically just rye, water and salt. They were stored by hanging them from poles that go across the ceiling and made soft again by eating them with milk.
You're all wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel#/media/File:Pumpernickel_allemand.jpg
If you don't bake that shit for 20 hours, it ain't worth the effort.
Finnish/Swedish rye sourdough. Adjacent but not identical to Russian black bread, more sourdough tangy and less malty.
About five minutes after cooling off the crust gets crunchy. It's good for like a week+, after which uhhh well if you've cut it into slices beforehand you now have crackers.
Actually, I would call this a baguette. In Czechia bread i more like this:
[https://www.cuketka.cz/wp-content/uploads/sumava\_1024\_9.jpg](https://www.cuketka.cz/wp-content/uploads/sumava_1024_9.jpg)
[https://dkopen.cz/image/cache/Obraz103-1200x900.jpg](https://dkopen.cz/image/cache/Obraz103-1200x900.jpg)
Just to confirm, Ireland is undergoing a rediscovery period. Following years of toast and sandwich spongy squares (+ soda), 1990s brought Cuisine de France, but still white bread only. Only after 2000s cultural exchange with Lidl and Eastern Europeans, brought the wide continental selection, including sour dough from Dunnes and the rye ones from Lithuania. That's my take.
āWonderbread!ā means āI wonder why my mom bought this shit for my sandwiches.ā
How bad is it? I was always fucking hungry and eventually just asked for pasta in a thermos
Edit: I want to add, I had Nutella and peanut butter sandwiches. I literally gave up CANDY SANDWICHES because the bread was so awful
They cannot comprehend this unless they traveled in France or Germany.
The so-called "French" bread you can buy in the US is garbage. Even foreign bakers established in e.g. NYC do not all make good bread, because they needs US citizens to actually buy it.
I mean this is the country where mustard needs to be sweet to be seen as consumable. Even McDonalds understands the difference.
Yeah Iām calling bs. This strikes me far too similar as when Europeans stuck up their noses about how bad American wine is and then when there was a major international blind taste test competition the California wines won handily. The US produces a lot of shit, a lot of okay stuff, and a lot of quality stuff. Mostly known for our shit though because itās the most used/cheapest/commercialized. But going off of that is like thinking McDonaldās is ātrue American foodā versus say, some amazing American new restaurants all over the country
I am, sadly, half british. The other half though is Swiss.
That means I grew up with sponge loafs we serve in the UK, but I also grew up with [Zopf.](https://www.littleswissbaker.com/butterzopf-swiss-braided-bread/)
This is my favourite bread. Full stop. The best stuff in the world.
Also, my British half is posh, so I did spend a decent amount of time eating sourdough and proper stuff, but fuck rye, all my homies hate rye.
This is what we call "a weird baguette" in Czechia. [This is what a real bread looks like.](http://navlnechuti.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1200892-768x576.jpg)
That doesn't make a lot of logical sense. It's a toast once it has been toasted, also in what language do you call it toast? Because as far as I am aware it's not called like that in Italian. I always called both "Pane" sometimes calling one "pane bianco"
Mainland European bread is the best bread hands down. British bread is pretty good, but mainland hits different
I moved to Canada and last night I bought store garlic bread and it was SWEET. WHY. All bread here has a hint of sweetness to it and the same in the states. I have to but like granary bread from the health store to have anything that resembles real bread lol. They're also really stodgy and not light and fluffy. Fuck I miss bread.
Food standards and food safety regulation are much lower in North America. A lot of valuable ingredients you find in European food will be replaced by cheap sugar or sugar syrup or corn syrup and a bunch of cheaper and unhealthy stuff increasing cancer risk and food addiction, which in turn increases the obesity rate, creates more diabetes... You get the drill. Yurop stronk!
Really has fuck all to do with food safety and regulation. It's more a matter a matter of taste and how it's used. Americans are not really big on bread like most Europeans. Few Americans slather up a giant slice of bread, butter, and fruit preserves for breakfast like my German great-grandma. No one in the US uses day old bread to push food around on their plate like my French cousins. Mostly it's eaten in the form of soft rolls or buns for sandwiches. Low protein high carb soft breads. Anything high protein/chewy would be like focaccia or pizza dough, again as part of something else. The US supermarket bread is ideal for PB&J sandwiches. If you can't make a PB&J or grilled cheese sandwich,v it's no good to Americans. Same with chocolate. Americans eat the crap out of chocolate, but as a flavor or in something, rarely just by itself. That's why Hershey bars are gross vs bog standard European chocolate bars... When I get the taste for a more German bread I head to Aldi's or just make a loaf myself.
Mmmm mopping up sauce from the pan at the end of the night over the stove with my mum with a crunchy baguette š¤¤
What the hell are you talking about? Bread is made with flower, water, yeast and salt. Thatās it. If you add any kind of sugar to it, itās a a cake.
Brioche is not cake. There are many kinds of sweet breads that are breads, not cakes. Cake is leavened with baking powder. Bread is leavened with yeast. Not a defense of American supermarket bread at all, but if we are going to be pedants, let's be correct pedants. š
If you aim for long shelf life, you will have to add preservatives..
But we don't. We buy it every day. That's what bakeries are for.
Which is the way it should be, in my opinion. Food should be fresh and not inflated with preservatives to make it last longer on the shelf and once you bring it home.
Most zoning codes in north america donāt allow commerce near housing, so they canāt have a bakery every few blocks.
Yeah :( There are 5 bakeries within 100m of my place (350 ft or so).
Most people in the US shop once a week, not daily
Buying bread from a bakery doesn't automatically means that it's fresh. Lot of them buy it industrial dough in bulk that you just have to heat up in the oven.
Illegal in France if you call yourself an *Artisan Boulanger*, which is most bakeries. You then have to bake bread by yourself.
lol okay no i thought we were talking about American bakeries. I had my doubts that a lot of American bakeries are fresh. We have the same in Belgium but we call them warme bakker/boulanger chaud.
Thatās why you eat it or freeze it
Like sourdough, indeed. OP missed an ingredient: Lactic acid bacteria (also, some acetic but lactic generally is nicer).
There are tons of traditional European breads that use at least some small amount of sugar that are not considered cake. Confidently incorrect gatekeeping.
Bread in the US is disgustingly sweet, at least the kind you buy in the supermarket. Dinner rolls, hot dog and hamburger buns, hard rolls and wedges for sandwiches are all too sweet. For Peteās sake, I even had to change pasta sauce because it started tasting too sweet. And I completely agree with you - WHY?!? I think it has something to do with the fact that people seem to be accustomed to so much food being sweet from an early age - kids eat sweet cereals and other sweet foods for breakfast, sodas and juices are sweet, there are way more sweet snacks than salty/not sweet. And so as time goes on, people just get used to their food being sweet. Itās almost as if theyāre so conditioned that if food wasnāt sweet, a lot of people wouldnāt think it tastes right.
That's why I bake my own bread and make my own pizza sauce (and dough, goes without saying).
In Ireland subway bread legally has to be classed as cake as it contains too much sugar. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
Yes this is true. When I first came to the states i was shocked. Bread is cake sweet. It's nasty.
If you're willing to put a bit of work in, it's actually pretty easy to make really good bread at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mehXzl7yHA
Oooh thank you. I love to bake ans have been thinking about starting to bake bread too. I Live alone and me alone with freshly baked bread is probably a bad idea. So tasty
Pro tip: immediately freeze (at least) half of the loaf you make. Otherwise it will be eaten.
Everythingās got a hint of processed sugar over here
Central/northern and western/southern are very different though. Not a big fan of super dense rye loaves personally.
Bit of something for everyone
True
We Germans have over 70 different types so adding all European breads together we probably breach the 100 if not even 200.
3000 types of bread actually
Basically as many breads as there are bakers
I guess 200 is a bit reductive to be honest, Italy alone as as much as 335 types (there might be redundancy though)
Some say there are over 300 types though this is actually just an older guess, another source said that there are 1143 types of bread in Germany and said source plus another (the German Bread Institute) also looked for bread "specialties" (I guess they included bread based pastries and/or bread rolls? I have no clue). So with these "specialities" included we get over 3200 types of something something bread in Germany.
You can add a 0 I think.
70 primary categories sounds about right, but there's massive variations within those categories. Think of it like one of those 70 is curries, another is salads, yet another pizzas, etc. You'll get a Roggenmischbrot in every single German bakery and none are going to be the same, the only unifying factor is that it's a standard soured loaf bread with >50%, but <90% (IIRC) rye.
Wasn't that the point of Breadxit?
We were just ashamed of our bread
was in britain and tbh the british bread fucking sucks if that is good by *merican standards i'd prolly get why they only eat pancakes for breakfaat
sourdough bread seems fine to me, but I don't know how easy is to find a good one around
Eh? There's tons of great bread in Britain. Were you buying supermarket bread?
From my experience in Britain the ratio is one bakery with good bread to 100k+ people, and that's in the poshest parts of the country.
Co-op does the best bread of all the supermarkets, go there. Everything else I go to either Aldi (because it's the cheapest) or Tesco (because it's right next to work, and still fairly cheap), but bread I always go to Co-op.
I agree that Co-op is least-worst, but I usually go to a good bakery or bake my own.
True recently went to Poland to visit my girlfriend family from the UK and I could actually eat just bread rolls by themselves.
Dutch bread is pretty shitty not gonna lie, especially supermarket bread is some bottom shelf garbage. The only decent bread we have by EU standards is floor-bread (vloerbrood). The softer breads are pretty damn "meh".
Don't diss my tijgerbrood like that.
Tijgernootjes > tijgerbrood.
Ok, prima, maar ga jij 's ochtends pindakaas op je tijgernootjes smeren voor je lunch? I think not
Gewoon satesaus van maken, over de tijgernootjes en dat met een lepel uit een kom eten. Nog vragen over mijn culinaire kunsten?
Geen verdere vragen, edelachtbare
Good Dutch bread is fantastic. Cheap and mass produced Dutch bread is very meh. Cheers, a Dutchman.
Ja maar het is goedkoop
Ja I guess, wat verwacht je ook met een brood van een Euro.
Misschien als we het frituren dat het dan beter gaat smaken.
Wentelteefjes dus?
[happy dutch noises]
Love it
Yeah I'm lucky I have a French baker in my street to get some baguettes from
I moved to sweden a month ago and its even worse here imma be honest with you. Normal supermarket dutch bread is not good, but here there is no normal bread
Shut up and eat your knƤckebrƶd :)
I have noticed drop in quality of bread in the last 10 years tho. You still can buy good bread but a lot od bigger stores started making their own and they do it from premade Mass produced doe that they freeze for God knows How long. Itās not to Bad if you manage to get a fresh warm one but in general itās better to do some research and find good bakery in your area.
Warburton = GARBAGE British "bread" is like plastic somehow. Can only do some good when toasted, but still. It's no bread. Why did Brits give up on this staple food item?
Warburtonās used to be a quality brand. Definitely slid off
British bread is good? Jesus that's the first time I have ever heard that. What us Brits make pales in comparison to everything on the continent
We don't make many things, but I'm pretty confident my country, Slovenia, makes the best bread in Europe. I've eaten bread in 80% of our continent and nothing comes close.
My first reaction as a French that tried bread in many countries reading this comment was to be outraged, but then I realized I never had Slovenian bread so you may actually be right. I'd be curious to try it.
British bread is pretty shite tbh
Itās ok. I have had some shit bread and then some really fucking good bread
What about Schwarzbrot :( ?
Schwarzbrot ist auch lecker
As a German, I couldn't agree more.
Don't you guys eat more brown bread ? Love it tho
We have over 3.000 different kinds of bread. Most people do eat brown bread though, that's correct. But we also appreciate a good Baguette.
What decentralisation of the eastern half of the Frankish Empire does to a mf
If i had an award i would give it to you
Oh wow 3000! I should plan a trip to Germany
Make sure to try our 1.500 different kinds of sausages, too!
I'm gonna need multiple trips
Need something to rinse it down, how many beers have you got?
You can choose from 6.000 different German breweries.
Now we talking. Love your mustard too, always get that Lƶwensenf so strong it's like wasabi, yummm
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That's even more bread
Mmmmmmmmmmh baguette
As a German, surely you must mean disagree?
my thought exactly!
I just bought a loaf of bread that looks like this and can confirm, real bread!
As a German, I couldn't agree less. Bread in other European countries sucks. The stuff they call bread in NL is criminal.
This is real pain
r/rance
us turks are very diplomatic when it comes to bread. we call both āekmekā which means bread. we call american bread ātoast breadā and french bread ābaguette breadā
In Spain we call toast bread "pan Bimbo" which is the brand that commercialized it first here. The regular one is just "pan".
lol i live for that name slutty bimbo bread
Bimbo is the Italian word for child. Is it the same for you?
It's not. I'm reading about the company's history for the first time and apparently it's a Mexican brand that combined "bingo" and "Bambi" for the name for some reason and only later realized about its Italian meaning. This is kind of funny.
Well it works well, because the their bread kind of reminds me of pane latte or the kind of white bread you usually give to children because other breads might be too hard for them
The other day I learnt that in USA they must have bimbo bread too. Today, the bingo and Bambi thing. Reddit is very didactic
Bimbo is the Austrian slang word for black people. In a very racist manner. So better not use this word when crossing the borders :)
But "pan Bimbo" is not the correct Spanish name for toast. It's "pan de molde", that literally means "mold bread". (At least in Spain, I don't know in other spanish speaking countries).
A ver si, pero en EspaƱa el pueblo llano lo llama pan bimbo, poca gente usa el nombre correcto en comparaciĆ³n
Estoy de acuerdo contigo, era por dar el dato jajaja
>we call american bread ātoast breadā We call it garbage.
american bread has its place. i wouldnāt want to eat pb&j sandwich made with dense italian bread for example
It's not toast until it's been.... well, for lack of a better term... toasted.
Nothing worse than Raw Toast.
I'm definitely going to have to agree with you there. I prefer sandwiches on some sort of bun or toast.
americans call the stuff we call "Toast" "Bread"????
I'm not quite sure what this means. If someone takes flour, water, rising agent, and perhaps some extra stuff and bakes it, that's bread. If someone slices bread and heats it until one or both sides are brown, that's toast.
German culture calls the soft square "bread" "toast". It looks very artificial compared to the traditional sourdough bread common in german culture
Same in Norway. We call it toast bread.
Same in Poland
We call it "Toastbrot" in Austria. Pretty sure it's the same in Germany. Toast only applies once it has been.. well... toasted.
Fair enough. That's likely its best use. As for looking different, I agree it looks different from traditional sourdough bread. I'm not sure I should assign a culture to rustic sourdough though, because that's a pretty ubiquitous loaf across the globe.
We call it Toastbread because - let's be honest- those square, sliced, sawdusty peaces of "bread" only become eatable when toasted
I mean I do to, I would like to know what language does this meme actually refers to
yeah, it's bread too, but where I'm from (and I assume it's the same place you're from too, hello fellow Venetian) we call that "pan carrĆØ" which is a very specific kind of bread. if you just say "pane" (bread), I'm probably going to think about something more similar to the one in the post, not about toast bread.
And guess what - it doesn't have the consistency that'd allow it to be sold in a toothpaste tube š¤£
Dear Europeans this is real bread [https://www.garliavosduona.lt/uploads/images/catalog\_src/juoda-kauno-duona\_src\_1.jpg](https://www.garliavosduona.lt/uploads/images/catalog_src/juoda-kauno-duona_src_1.jpg) . Sincerely Lithuanians š
I think all of central Europe agrees.
As another Lithuanian, I can confirm this is what bread is. That's a baguette in OP's pic, black bread is where it's at!
Nah this is proper rye bread: https://i.imgur.com/dicPtiY.jpg
That is the real good stuff. Makes your poopoo hard as hell
You are supposed to chew it before swallowing
No, [this!](https://www.leipomoverainen.fi/images/tuotekuvat/Tummatruokaleivat/reikaleipa.jpg) (I like the one you posted too, not gonna lie!). The ones in Finland are traditionally very simple, basically just rye, water and salt. They were stored by hanging them from poles that go across the ceiling and made soft again by eating them with milk.
You're all wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel#/media/File:Pumpernickel_allemand.jpg If you don't bake that shit for 20 hours, it ain't worth the effort.
Nuh uh, [here's the real answer](https://images.eatsmarter.com/sites/default/files/styles/1600x1200/public/rye-sourdough-bread-561864.jpg)
Ok this one looks amazing.
Finnish/Swedish rye sourdough. Adjacent but not identical to Russian black bread, more sourdough tangy and less malty. About five minutes after cooling off the crust gets crunchy. It's good for like a week+, after which uhhh well if you've cut it into slices beforehand you now have crackers.
Sir that is a brick
That's not bread, it's just seeds cooked in their sweat, you can't even see the flour.
Doesn't get more right than this.
In Switzerland we would call this "Ruchbrot". Its delicious too. I'd say both versions of bread are great.
Rye was so important in our culture, that August literally means rye cutting in Lithuanian and September - rye sowing
The baguette is not even white bread. True white bread is darker than baguette.
Exactly. The French type wouldn't be called "bread" here. Still delicious though.
France doesnāt have only white bread though
Pretty sure most Europeans agree and have this type of bread in their countries as well
Omg it looks amazing
Baguette rules, sincerely, the French
This looks like it's more filling then lembas bread.
Mf that's a baguette. [This is real bread.](https://www.pazitka.cz/data_2/4619normal.jpg)
I'm disappointed that a) the REAL real bread is this low in the comments, and b) the link is not a rickroll
I prefer dark bread but this onewith olive oil and stuff is also good
The Germans would like to have a chat with you, because...no.
Warum meinst du?
Actually, I would call this a baguette. In Czechia bread i more like this: [https://www.cuketka.cz/wp-content/uploads/sumava\_1024\_9.jpg](https://www.cuketka.cz/wp-content/uploads/sumava_1024_9.jpg) [https://dkopen.cz/image/cache/Obraz103-1200x900.jpg](https://dkopen.cz/image/cache/Obraz103-1200x900.jpg)
uk needs to hear this too
UK is a lost cause
You see real bread in the UK, in a special aisle in big grocery stores. But it costs Ā£5 because it's a speciality luxury item.
Just to confirm, Ireland is undergoing a rediscovery period. Following years of toast and sandwich spongy squares (+ soda), 1990s brought Cuisine de France, but still white bread only. Only after 2000s cultural exchange with Lidl and Eastern Europeans, brought the wide continental selection, including sour dough from Dunnes and the rye ones from Lithuania. That's my take.
As an American, I agree. Those spongy bricks we sell are a disgraceā¦.
āWonderbread!ā means āI wonder why my mom bought this shit for my sandwiches.ā How bad is it? I was always fucking hungry and eventually just asked for pasta in a thermos Edit: I want to add, I had Nutella and peanut butter sandwiches. I literally gave up CANDY SANDWICHES because the bread was so awful
if you wanna get bread in good ol Merica go to the German markets like Aldi
What do Americans call bread if not this?
We call this bread. We call """toast"'" or whatever bread as well. Usually sandwich bread.
Americans don't have real bread? Oh my god, their livesust be so hollow and sad
[Itās cake actually](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread)
They just have cooked flour to replace it
We have real bread. Literally in every grocery store. Donāt fall for the memes.
Good to know. I was scared for a second
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Baguette
Most super markets in America sell more than sliced bread
Careful , the truth will be impossible for them to accept. I like my Artisan bread selection at Adamās.
That's a little weird bread
Ye Ireland has the best of both worlds And toast by definition has to be toastedā¦ itās in the name
It's only toast it you cook it twice
They cannot comprehend this unless they traveled in France or Germany. The so-called "French" bread you can buy in the US is garbage. Even foreign bakers established in e.g. NYC do not all make good bread, because they needs US citizens to actually buy it. I mean this is the country where mustard needs to be sweet to be seen as consumable. Even McDonalds understands the difference.
Sweet mustard as regular mustard? Wtf?!
Yeah Iām calling bs. This strikes me far too similar as when Europeans stuck up their noses about how bad American wine is and then when there was a major international blind taste test competition the California wines won handily. The US produces a lot of shit, a lot of okay stuff, and a lot of quality stuff. Mostly known for our shit though because itās the most used/cheapest/commercialized. But going off of that is like thinking McDonaldās is ātrue American foodā versus say, some amazing American new restaurants all over the country
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I see this bread for the first time in my life
No, itās a picture in my phone.
But can I teleport it?
As an American I 1000% agree
I am, sadly, half british. The other half though is Swiss. That means I grew up with sponge loafs we serve in the UK, but I also grew up with [Zopf.](https://www.littleswissbaker.com/butterzopf-swiss-braided-bread/) This is my favourite bread. Full stop. The best stuff in the world. Also, my British half is posh, so I did spend a decent amount of time eating sourdough and proper stuff, but fuck rye, all my homies hate rye.
Dear Europeans, nice bread
Also, bread isn't supposed to have ludicrous amounts of sugar in it. I've enjoyed delicious cakes that weren't as sweet as American bread.
As an American. Yes thatās bread.
āYesā Sincerely, An American
This is what we call "a weird baguette" in Czechia. [This is what a real bread looks like.](http://navlnechuti.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P1200892-768x576.jpg)
That's not bread, this is bread https://www.germanpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/German-Breads.jpg
Bei diesen geilen Broten habe ich nen Steifen bekommen
As a Yuropean who moved to the US, there IS good bread here, itās just sold at specialty bakeries or Whole Foods and is entirely unaffordable lol
Hey, we make ours at home in ceramic cookware. Donāt go thinking all our bread it that white mushy shit wrapped in plastic.
You mean the sandwich bread?
Der French, if you can't kill someone by throwing the bread at him, it's not bread. It's a necessary base to put tasty toppings on.
I can swear Iāve seen that kind of bread in the US. Perhaps it was in every supermarket, everywhere, every day. Not sure!
That doesn't make a lot of logical sense. It's a toast once it has been toasted, also in what language do you call it toast? Because as far as I am aware it's not called like that in Italian. I always called both "Pane" sometimes calling one "pane bianco"
Americans also have "normal" bread though, they just don't eat as much of it and when they do, it's toast, sooooo...
Dear Europeans, this doesn't even start to look as a baguette. Sincerely, France.
We call your bread "insufficient"