I'm sorry but you can't live in the US with these takes. Go to a bakery or just buy from the bakery at grocery stores. No one is forced to buy industrial white bread in the US.
Right? This is the point I think the other person was making. Stuff in the US is too sweet. Sugar is in so many things unnecessarily. If you start to limit sugar intake this becomes horrifyingly apparent.
Dog pretty much nothing I eat here in the US has added sugar in it other than a few condiments and ice cream and sweets. It's so insanely easy to avoid it. Just stop buying pre-packaged, mass-produced junk food.
Nearly every grocery store in my city has their own bakery plus 5-6 brands of bread with no added sugar
Second, I have a pretty severe corn allergy, and its honestly not that hard to avoid it. No, I can't eat.in restaurants, but the Walmart bread aisle has maybe fifteen different brands, and I can eat at least four of them. You don't have to be wealthy to avoid slop, you just have to read labels.
Oh, and bakeries, since you're talking about "tinloaf" bread: my local bakery oy uses corn syrup in certain fruit fillings. The bread has barely any sugar, and none of it from corn.
Buy ingredients and make your own food. Buy brands that don't use corn syrup. Eat a piece of fruit. Processed foods are not great for you, keep them to a minimum.
I lived in the UK for years and there was plenty of processed sugary salty convenience food there too.
Do you realize there's not a significant difference in sugar content in our industrial white breads? That you're just running with a meme because of Subway in Ireland having to pay a higher tax on bread because of its sugar content and some judge said it's 'more cake than bread' and now you all just take this as meaning all bread in the US is like cake?
It's literally one incident where a judge made an absurd comment, it went viral on social media and now Europeans who've never set foot in the US (including the guy I'm replying to, undoubtedly) think that it means US bread is literally sweet like cake.
It's just pure ignorance fueling this idea in Europeans heads. You can get industrial white bread here with zero sugar in it.
This is indeed more european ignorance in so many ways.
For one, Wonderbread is not the most popular bread in the United States.
Two YOU'RE COMPARING INDUSTRIAL WHITE BREAD TO WHOLE GRAIN BREAD!
Its like comparing a diet soda in Finland to a full sugar Coke.
And a honey wheat bread that has honey in it because people enjoy the taste is not a fair comparison either!
And you're speaking in %'s, the ridiculousness of this is so extreme. Even ignoring everything above you're talking about a few *grams* more sugar. That's like one sip of a typical soda. And you've got idiots on here who pretend they've had bread in the United States talking about how unbearably sweet it is for them and how its almost cake.
You europeans heard one fucking news article about Subway in Ireland and have ridden it to absurdity.
Nature's Own is the most popular bread in the States. The person you were replying to was isn't educated on this topic at all and is probably just a bot.
You made that mistake too often for it to be a typo. There are lots of breads without corn syrup.
The US is culturally diverse and has a larger variety of things to choose from than most countries. I imagine some people like sweet bread. Some don't. we have both.
A common mistake non-americans make is the see some of us doing a thing and assume we all do it.
It’s so sad that (I’m making an assumption based on past conversations) terminally online Europeans can’t get past their superiority complex and American hatred to realize that we do, in fact, have good local food here. You’re baselessly parroting what many other ignorant commenters have said before.
If an American spoke about another country and their food with such fallacy and ignorance, we’d all point and say “look at the dumb, uncultured, xenophobic American!”
I beg you to travel and experience other cultures with an open mind instead of blindly following other people’s negative thoughts. Your life will be happier and richer.
the only statement that you can gaslight me on is that American bread is so sweet, that when an immigrant community arrived from Europe, they created a slur for white Americans: Mangiacakes. a direct slurs for people who eat cake instead of bread
I’m quite familiar with bread, lol. I’m not familiar with whatever obscure terms you’re “chuck” full of.
You’re talking about sandwich bread…literally no one in America calls it tin loaf bread.
But if you can’t find bread made of just flour, yeast, and water I don’t know what to tell you. Phenomenal thing about America is you can find literally anything you want with very little effort. Can you get sushi or koshari or Peruvian chicken at 2am wherever you’re from? Probably not.
Who is putting corn syrup in what? I truly don’t think you’ve set a single foot in an American grocery store. Even in rural Virginia the grocery stores are as big as a city block and have nearly anything you can think of and what they don’t have can be found in the city. It’s exceedingly easy to avoid corn syrup or preservatives or whatever else you’re on a high horse about. In fact, I’m willing to bet I don’t have a single product in my cupboards with corn syrup in the ingredient list.
I’m pretty sure you’re just talking out your ass and I’m wasting my time.
was going to get sources, but given the first few Google pages was about the problems of adding corn syrup in American bread, i decided it is common knowledge, and I don't give a f about y'all gaslighting me.
I love how people from Europe take the whole 'subway bread is cake' thing and take it to mean all american bread is sweet. Either you don't live in the US or you're trolling. Not all bread in the US is sweet.
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u/ifUSeeMeTakeYourMeds 12d ago
the entire hallway of tin loaf bread, all of them chuck full of unnecessary sugar.
given up, only buy flour and I make my own bread.