How the United States Ruined Bread (American Reacts)

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[@embreis2257]

6:15 '94% of Parisians live less than 5mins away from a bakery.' for our US viewers: he refers to a distance _by foot_ not driving in a car!

[@module79l28]

Shhh, say "at walking distance", otherwise the US americans will think that by "foot" you mean "the distance". 😆

[@MoreJps]

oh...

[@Luredreier]

​@@MoreJps Wait, you actually thought by car?

[@CokoladovyBananek]

My own experience. I visited USA in 98. After 3 days ( i was a backpacker in rented car ) i ate mostly bread and ham or cheese. Got violently sick. I am very sure it was from the sugar in the bread

[@johnnyuk3365]

One of my memories from over 40 years ago was getting a ferry from Plymouth to Roscoff in Normandy with a university friend. We arrived early in the town on a Sunday morning the entire town was closed but the bakery and the florist were open. I have to had it to the French, they get their priorities correct.

[@huldradraco]

we only eat one warm meal a day here, the other meals are bread. healthy and nutritious bread. not the kind of chemical cake they have in the US

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

More or less the same in Denmark. One warm meal, usually at dinner and rye bread at lunch and white wheat bread or cereals for breakfast.

[@petretepner8027]

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Yes, I remember Denmark, and the meal really was "warm" rather than "hot". The Danes have much they can legitimately brag about, but (désolé) your cuisine is not one of them.

[@krisjonesuk]

Inevitably it is us British who are to blame for the modern industrial bread-making process. The Chorleywood Bread Process, invented in the UK is behind the mass production of bread. It enables the use of lower protein wheats and the production of a loaf in less than 3 hours. The majority of British bread is made this way and most traditional bakeries have disappeared.

[@manug2508]

France, Germany and Austria really have a big bread culture. If you ever come back to Germany i can only recommend to try something like a freshly baked "Schwarzwälder Landbrot" (Black Forest country bread) from a bakery. Rich in flavour with that touch of sour, soft on the inside with a crunshy crust. Don't let it be sliced while it's still too warm though. I promise it'll be a totally different level compared to cheap soft white bread. I'd totally miss stuff like that if i'd ever move elsewhere.

[@Sclero80]

Even in Italy there is a very strong culture, every region, every city, every neighborhood has its own bakery and everyone makes various types of bread! There are so many varieties!

[@rudigerk]

@@Sclero80 Exactly!

[@bastian6625]

He was in Germany last year, and comes back this summer again, I think.

[@MoreJps]

coming back this summer :)

[@rmamon2554]

My favorite is rye bread. Healthy, tasteful, helps i you wanna lose weight, because it keeps you full for 8 hours easily.

[@LutzAlbrecht-Mylenium]

Even our industrially baked bread in discount markets would be lightyears ahead of this garbage they sell as bread in the US, not to speak of traditional craft bakeries and small regional bakery chains.

[@johnnyuk3365]

Ignoring Johnny’s quick aside that us Brits are somehow responsible for the US appalling quality of bread, I believe that there are very few cities, towns, villages in the UK that don’t have an independent or chain bakery (yes, I include Greggs). I remember going to Boston,USA over 40 years ago and eating my first US bread, it was just so appallingly SWEET. I would classify it as cake. And don’t get me started on American cheese, does it even exist.

[@araptorofnote5938]

You should research the 'Chorley Wood Bread Process'. You might change your mind about who is responsible.

[@jennyh4025]

Weren’t you the ones, who put cheap, deadly whiteners into the flour, because people in Victorian England wanted white bread?

[@araptorofnote5938]

@@jennyh4025 Yes. But not for the reason you suggest. And not the Victorians.

[@jennyh4025]

@@araptorofnote5938 really? Not the Victorians? I might mix up the reasoning (could’ve just been greed), but I’m pretty sure, that the historian said Victorian area.

[@jennyh4025]

@@araptorofnote5938 here’s the quote I was looking for (BBC 2013) „…When basic staples like bread started to be produced cheaply and in large quantities for the new city dwellers, Victorian manufacturers seized on the opportunity to maximise profit by switching ingredients for cheaper substitutes that would add weight and bulk. Bread was adulterated with plaster of Paris, bean flour, chalk or alum. Alum is an aluminium-based compound, today used in detergent, but then it was used to make bread desirably whiter and heavier. Not only did such adulteration lead to problems of malnutrition, but alum produced bowel problems and constipation or chronic diarrhoea, which was often fatal for children.“

[@pamelabaars6896]

Great video, here in Australia we have our awful supermarket breads but we also have a lot of fabulous bakeries with fantastic breads.

[@josefschiltz2192]

When I think of putting sugar in bread, I can feel my lip curling. But sugar is also plonked into mayo! WHY??? Thankfully, I make my own bread and mayo.

[@TenCapQuesada]

I live in Spain and we also have great bread here. Unfortunately, I've developed a terrible wheat intolerance over the years, which means I can't indulge for fear of rather unpleasant consequences. So this video just produces such cravings for what I can no longer have 😢😢

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Wait, it’s another Johnny Harris video? Yay! (Except we hate the BetterHelp sponsorship)

[@wensdyy6466]

in Czechia we call those packed, presliced white "things" a toast bread (when you say bread nobody thinks of toast bread). People only buy it to put them to toasters or make sandwiches and both of these things are rare (because even a sandwich can be made of regular bread or a baguette). Here we usually buy bread mo twice/three times a week (you go to the local shop at least three tiems a week to get fresh produce) from a bakery or a supermarket (more and more of them either have small bakery in the buliding or the supermarket itself has its own bakery) or if you live in the middle of nowhere a mobile shop (and even these have fresh bread and rohlíky-a typical czehc pastry that looks like tiny baguette). I dont think and czech would ever prefer toast bread over bread.

[@vercoda9997]

It also ruined chocolate. American chocolate is generally *disgusting* and more or less like cooking chocolate. Whenever my kid sister and her American kids come Home to Ireland for a holiday, they always, always buy a Lot of chocolate from here to take back to the States with them.

[@suicidalbanananana]

Shout out to those lunch baguettes in France that are shown in a few shots, since you said in some video you went for the "meal deal" lunch type of thing in the UK often, trust me, if you ever go to France then you should just try different lunch baguettes from different bakeries each day, they are crazy good. Imagine a subway sandwich but everything is 5x to 10x the quality, but it's half the price & has more on it 🤷‍♂

[@Immhotep]

If you have never made bread yourself, do it. It's so simple but just so good. Flour, water, yeast, tiny bit of salt. Mix, prove, punch, shape, rise, bake.

[@Kawagae]

Dude, the only thing you can do is make the bread at home, it doesn't take anything. Obviously you have to get some good flour and that's it. Don't get poisoned. Hello from Italy

[@jmi5969]

German supermarkets in my country all have cutting machines to be used by the buyers. Take a huge wheel of heavy German rye, slice it in one go... and it safely lasts for at least a week in a refrigerator (not frozen). I suspect that if the Americans had invented slicers after the electrical refrigerator became common, there would be far less drive to make synthetic breads...

[@HarithBK]

Europe has plenty of machine made bread but we don't use dough conditioners or preservatives it is just basic wheat, salt, water, fat, sugar and yeast how long does it last? at least a week. when you are able to control the entire environment around the bread being made it will last and be fresh for a week. which is plenty of time to eat a loaf of bread. you don't need the things that the US puts in bread.

[@GuyWets-zy5yt]

I spent 7 years a month in USA. I had probs with stomach and headaches. It was over when I was back. Doc said it was food

[@gillianrimmer7733]

It's not only the sweetness of American bread that's disturbing to visitors from other countries - it's the texture as well - it's spongy like cake.

[@redram6080]

True. Keep in mind this only applies to store bought bread and not bakery bought bread

[@AB-yt4hd]

Many bakeries in France does not produce good quality bread, but many still does. I have a good one near where I live. Also, if you don't buy white bread, it will usually last many days without issues.

[@helenwood8482]

I would argue with "bread-like substsnce". That is nothing like bread.

[@bjorndehoust5768]

...in fact, in Germany it's not allowed to call American "bread" bread (at Subway, for example)...

[@jasminrosesafarichabestari8804]

fresh bread in Italy, Germany etc. is so tasteful that you can eat it only with olive oil and it is delicious! Or, put a little bit of mayonaise on a big slice of bread, then sliced fresh tomatoe on top, with salt and finish it up with a little (olive) or sunflower or distel oil, aaaaaaaooooh, soooo delicious.

[@MWiddle]

homemade bread Stir together 4 1/2 cups of flour, 2 1/4 tablespoons instant yeast, 1 2/3 cups lukewarm water and a pinch of salt Mix together with two hands and when firm, take out of the bowl and knead on a flowered surface for at least 10-15 minutes till you get a bouncy and smooth dough slightly flower the inside of a bowl and place the dough in there. Cover with a damp cloth and let sit in a warm environment for 1 - 2 hours. Take the dough out and gently knead once more on a flowered surface to form the shape you would like to make. Let sit for another 45 minutes Cover a tray with a baking sheet and place your bread in a heated oven on 450 F for 40- 45 minutes for a medium sized to large size bread. Take out of the oven when your bread has a golden brown crust.

[@Ayns.L14A]

A friend of mine took his kids to Disneyland ( 9&6) they decided, instead of queuing for food at lunch time, they would buy some sandwich stuff and have a picnic for lunch, the kids took one bite and refused to eat the sarnies because the bread was too sweet for them .....

[@voyance4elle]

that beat at the end :D love it!

[@LetsChillPage]

As a Frenchman, I confirm that I eat a half baguette for each meal. I bought two baguettes for two days, one with wholemeal flour and the other a country baguette, and I alternated at each meal. Personally, eating bread is as rewarding as eating a good pastry. It’s a daily pleasure. And, except when I eat Asian food, if I have to eat without bread at a meal, I feel like I haven't eaten. It misses something! Well, yes, I'm a proper French. 😅

[@petretepner8027]

A real "pain français" (as we Belgians call a baguette) doesn't keep till the second day, though I suppose a wholemeal version might. Unless you live far from your boulangerie, I can't really endorse your two-day plan.

[@LetsChillPage]

@@petretepner8027 No, just put it in the fridge and remember to take it out 1/2 hour before eating. Even better, if, like me, you have a pizza oven that heats up quickly, then, once it's hot, you put the bread in for 1.30 minutes; it's as if your baguette came out of the bakery's oven. 😉

[@suicidalbanananana]

About taking things slow, it needs to be said that in France & Spain (and a little bit in Italy) the majority of the population are holding on to old standards of "ima have a several course meal with alcohol for my lunch, because i can" & it's amazing. Typical lunch break in France is 1 hour but some companies give 1,5hour & some lunch meetings are just 2-3 hours 😂 Having been to meetings at a bunch of massive companies all over EU, Lunch in France really stands out, it's just crazy, if you're not going to a literal restaurant then they have one in the building & its not like "oh, they have a nice lunch room with a lot of options" but like "damn it's actually a restaurant with a fancy menu and wine selection" etc etc. If you liked EU food so far, you need to go to France, not only is their bread amazing, all their food is & (like Italians) they are gods when it comes to making something amazing out of very few ingredients.

[@ESCLuciaSlovakia]

You can try and make a real bread at home. Our bread in Slovakia has only four ingredients: flour, yeast, salt and water. You mix it and let it rise, then fold it and bake it. Someone can give you a recipe. We've been making a home-made bread at the start of the pandemic, because of mass hysteria. It tastes great and the smell in your whole house is heavenly. You could then make a taste test here on youtube. 🙂

[@gillianrimmer7733]

They didn't ruin bread - only the bread in the USA. We stil have good bread everywhere else!

[@redram6080]

There is also good bread in the USA. You just have to go to a good bakery to get it

[@robbie_]

Same problem in the UK although there are bakeries in almost every town still. Almost all bread gives me indigestion these days. Home bread baking is kind of popular here now though. I've done that too. 10 minutes of effort.

[@KimForsberg]

I live in a small suburban neighbourhood in my city where most workers travel to work by car. But after a few days in france having breakfast at the corner bakery, I just want to set up a small bakery to serve bread... just so I can eat at it before going to office. Doesn't make sense, and would certainly be a guaranteed loss and go under in like a month. But I still want it. The problem again... car dependant suburbia. Not the US hellhole car dependant suburbia, but still, most adults go to work by car. And anyone younger wouldn't eat there because they get good bread at home or at school. The older people... well, they wouldn't buy bread there at the price it would need to be because anything more than 2 cents for a sandwich is literal highway robbery.

[@alanpotter8680]

9:17 You already said it earlier - France alone has 50 more bakeries per capita than the US. France (and Europe as a whole) produces a lot more high quality bread than the US. There's no need to take our time, we also use machines to make it, we just add good ingredients and honor recipes that have worked for many many years. I highly doubt that the US supermarket bread has gone through a natural yeast fermentation process before baking it. No. It's all about saving money while selling the bread for the same price. Good example is cheap American beer, and I want to emphasize on "cheap". It's often more expensive than the cheap German beer, and we all know that German beer uses malted grain, hops, yeast and water, that MUST go through a natural fermentation process, which may take from a few days to a month, depending on the style. While the American cheap lager (and many others in the world) are fermented with enzymes, hop extracts, malt extracts, corn, unmalted grain and corn byproducts, and a bunch of other things that are a big no-no in most of the EU. A beer from extract-to-bottle in 48 hours. There's a reason why craft beer is a thing.

[@bertoverweel6588]

Our bread in the Netherlands is baked every day and sold in supermarkets or bakery schops. You will see in a few weeks. Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@camostar]

1 Bread Flour + 2 Instant Yeast + 3 Salt + 4 Water Now it your turn - try yourself

[@Enhancedlies]

watch that Adam Ragusea video he suggested next, its really good

[@graziellaacquarola7450]

Italian bread is fantastic we have so many varieties...it's in our culture 😋 just like Paris

[@bigN-422]

Sugar is basically free if you buy it on an industrial scale. Thats the reason there is sugar in literally everything you buy in the US. If you buy US bacon i am sure you find many compabies putting sugar in it 😢

[@marcomatteucci873]

My mother ALWAYS baked bread at home for the time we lived in the us

[@tobig1483]

Fun fact In Germany you are only allowed to call lemonade Limonade if there is a minimum of 20% sugar. Company’s sued against low carb soda producers because competitors have lemonade same taste with only 5% sugar. American Company globalism reached Germany

[@evanflynn4680]

I stopped over in Paris for a couple of days a but over a year ago. First day was a Sunday, so not much was open, but the second day I went out of the hotel for lunch, got a breadstick from a boulangerie, some jam and just ate the whole thing. Delicious. The outside had an amazing crust, and the inside looked like Turkish bread, the bubbles had allowed to grow so big inside. Best bread I've ever had, and I miss it. I can't get basic loaf of bread from the supermarket anymore. I have to go to the local bakery and get the good stuff. Still not as good as the bread I got in Paris, but it's far and away better than supermarket industrialised bread.

[@flatterkatz]

I hate that "this compound is also in yoga mats", that is such a deceiving take. It may be a bad chemical, alright, I don't say it isn't, but not because it's in yoga mats. I know something that you drink that is also in drain cleaners. Water. tremble in fear of evil water! Whoever uses such a comparison as to why something was bad is not trustworthy, no matter if that chemical actually is bad or not. Plenty of chemicals that are perfectly save to eat is also in stuff you wouldn't want to eat.

[@elsotto3314]

Did you know Germany has 300 different kinds of bread🤣 I love whole wheat bread, it’s delicious and very healthy lots of vitamins 😊The Dutch have bread for breakfast and for lunch so therefore our bread is healthy and delicious and nutritious.

[@emausderratsuchende5447]

I think this also has something to do with the British tradition in the USA. The French and German influence on bread and food culture in general is much less than the British influence... and as we all know, British cuisine in general is a complete disaster.

[@bluebear6570]

French bread is way behind German bread!

[@Fran-rc7sm]

Good bread does not last. I only eat sourdough bread and slice and freeze as soon as I get it home. If bread lasts it’s full of chemicals

[@barbaraout5038]

When in the Netherlands: try our bread! I think it's even better than French or German.

[@BrianMcGuirkBMG]

Good bread goes bad fast. That's a good thing.

[@PieknyWojtek]

I just want to note that in Europe (at least in countries that I lived in) you can also buy freshly baked, good quality bread (sometimes from local bakeries, sometimes baked in-house) in most of groceries stores. You don't really need to go to bakery to get a good bread. It's everywhere.

[@tabaaza9884]

Bread is not baked in stores in the USA? They don't taste very good, but you know - na bezrybiu i rak ryba.

[@jacquelinehecht7256]

You get such vast amounts of different breads in Europe

[@johnfrancismaglinchey4192]

Bread is a staple,,,,, it’s very important for a good diet,,,,,, and as you say ,,, quality, and an accompaniment to sauces,,gravy,,,and excellent Jams . ENJOY ,,,, FRANCE ,,, 🇫🇷,,, is not the only country that can do bread with love ,,,

[@nomaam9077]

0:46 - France is not the best example of good bread, because they only have white bread. The best bread in France is in Alsace and Lorraine, and that is German territory that was annexed by France.

[@shaunm3206]

Bread consists of 4 ingredients. Flour, salt, yeast and water. That’s it.

[@tins369]

Germany, France, Italy have perfect bread ❤ i love a good sourdough bread. And a good baguette. And italian white bread. ❤ that video makes my hungry 😂

[@Luredreier]

9:07 Honestly Germanic breads are better then the breads in the former Roman empire in my view. We might have been barbarians, but our breads retained their nutritional value as a separate meal instead of being intended as a side dish like the Roman breads.

[@chrissaltmarsh6777]

You can get excellent bread in the US (I know of Bay Area, CA, Seattle, and bits of Long Island). You can get rubbish bread in the UK (just acceptable for a bacon butty, but ciabatta is better). Where I live (Edinburgh) a decent loaf is 5mins walk away (3 places). And I can get the ingredients to make my own, which is good for your mental health and your gut microbiomes - and really doesn't take much time. Mostly it's the yeast that is doing the work.

[@Edgecrusherdk]

Bake your own bread. its really not rocket science

[@christiangodin5147]

Good day. A suggestion if I may: stop buying it.

[@Sierraomega1991]

US bread has so much sugar it's legally cake in the EU

[@Sclero80]

Have you ever thought about moving to Europe?

[@Fatouma_issa]

Am i the only one who lives in Europe but doesn’t eat bread 🥖 that often maybe once every 4-5 days 😂🤍🩵

[@rolandk.5720]

The only answers: greed and a weak state!

[@larsvegas1505]

bread shouldnt be as sweet as a donut.. the extra sugar is just to make it more paletable because its even worse without it.

[@katii1997]

9:07 "maybe it doesn't taste as sweet [...]but" bread is NOT suppose to be sweet. that is one of the main reasons why your bread in the US is shit.

[@Harrison944]

American bread isn’t sweet though😂

[@stirlingmoss4621]

@@Harrison944 if you're a USA citizen, then you have been inured to all things edible being sweetened. Wean yourself off sugar and taste the real flavours of food.

[@bubu5908]

@@Harrison944 It is, you probably never had real bread without sugar

[@Harrison944]

@@bubu5908 Yes I have buddy

[@Harrison944]

@@bubu5908 its pretty common here if you werent aware

[@markclay2103]

American bread is classed as cake

[@BergenDev]

Wut? You don't like Yogamat bread filled with sugar? hehehe

[@agn855]

Not really - it’s categorized as chemical pollution…

[@milliedragon4418]

No, that's Japanese milk bread

[@martingerlitz1162]

Sponge. Not cake.

[@rmamon2554]

No its a Chemical Weapon used against its own population. UN do something.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

When the US sandwich chain, Subway, began opening branches in Europe, it was taken to court (in Ireland). The High Court in Dublin ruled that Subway could not advertise or label their sandwich rolls as being bread at all. This is because the product contained five times as much sugar as was allowed in any product sold as bread in the EU. Thus, Subway rolls had to be labelled as "sweet rolls".

[@DSP16569]

or Sandwich in Germany (Sandwich here is not a protected name). That's why you can buy the American style Bread (still less sugar and artificial chemicals than in the US) as American (Style) Sandwich. The smaller german brother (Toastbrot) is soft too, but not so soft and has a lot less sugar - so it can still sold under the name bread/Brot). Golden Toast - a german "premium" toast has 4,4g sugar per 100g (4,4%) White Wonder Bread has 5g for two slices. Weigth of a slice is (didn't found exact values) is 25 to 35g - So one slice has 2,5g of sugar 100g is something between 3 and 4 slices that makes 7,5 to 10g of sugar in Wonder bread (7,5 to 10%)

[@tortepasti2]

@@DSP16569 5G FOR TWO SLICES?

[@milliedragon4418]

First and foremost, Subway is not a good example of a good American sub. It's like I don't know how to explain it. It's like the cheap of the cheap. And yes, they use inferior bread, but there are plenty of great Sandwich shops in the US that are by far so much better than Subway. Even franchises like Firehouse subs, Jimmy John's, Panera bread, Publix subs (their grocery store in the South (USA) but they have a good deli and a decent bakery for a supermarket) That's like going to like McDonald's or White Castle and thinking that that's the greatest American Burger has to offer. Or going to KFC for fried chicken.

[@Blackadder75]

@@milliedragon4418 this is the comment I was looking for, surely there must be some source of real bread left in North America. I haven't been there in 20 years, but when I eventually return for a long holiday I will try to find good local food

[@LoLrand0mness]

@@milliedragon4418 i don't get your point. nor do i understand why you seems so butt hurt. nobody ever mentioned anything about the things you "countered". But to maybe put the stuff you said into perspective: the undeniable greatest thing about America are their big chains, this includes fast food. They may not sell the greatest products, but still. The whole point of the initial post was just: "LOL, their most popular 'bread'-chain cannot even be legally called 'bread' here :DDDD"

[@pesahson]

The whole of Europe has great bread with many variaties. France is just the tip of the iceberg. As a Pole, I'm very happy with what's in our bakeries.

[@kamakita8698]

I am sure you meant Germany as tip of the iceberg

[@Ash_Wen-li]

@@kamakita8698 Germany is the iceberg

[@romystumpy1197]

The polish supermarket I use has so many types of flour for baking,cake flour,bread flour,pancake flour,perogi flour, etc.

[@arturobianco848]

Yup and not the best tip. thy sort of corner the luxery sweet and realy fatty bread types. Persanly i think Germany has the best variaty of real bread. I'm dutch so i do not like a lot of the Germane breads but they are all quality bread and they have a wide range.

[@arx3516]

Basically every Town has it's own kind of bread.

[@j.vanderson6239]

Let’s make one thing clear: A bread loaf should NOT be sweet !!

[@Zunbandee]

Unless it's saaristolaisleipä 🥲

[@LukasJampen]

Unless it's sweetbreat but then it's more of a dessert.

[@Muck006]

Rosinenbrot / raisin bread is sweet and that's fine ... you only put butter on that.

[@GuyWets-zy5yt]

Agree or it s another thing like bread with raisins( cramique in Belgium) or with pieces of sugar( craquelin in Belgium) or pain brioché

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

Fun Fact: in the German language (not just in Germany) the sliced packed bread is not even referred to as bread. It is called Toast or American Toast because the only thing you can do with it, is putting in into a toast due to its shape. If you call this bread, people will be really confused. It's not bread to them.

[@rmamon2554]

100% correct!!!

[@mizapf]

I (and many people that I know) call it "Toastbrot" before it is toasted; after that I call it "Toast".

[@Psychofuechschen]

legally subway wasnt allowed to call their sandwitches bread because of what is in it

[@arturobianco848]

Come to the Netherlands and you will know you are not correct. But i have to agree thats the only place i know of that makes good sliced bread.

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

@@arturobianco848 The food in the Netherlands isn’t much better than British food though. I have been there, and not just to Amsterdam and I have really tried anything I could. The bread in a bakery is obviously better than wonderbread but it’s still far from being good bread.

[@Brookspirit]

Fresh bread shouldn't be put warm in a bag to sweat, the fact they fake selling it like that and think it's a good thing shows how clueless they are. It will go soggy, it needs to be cooled before being bagged.

[@helenwood8482]

Exactly. I am a professional baker. My loaves are never bagged hot. To do that ruins them.

[@MrKhushrenada]

Hmmmm, here in Belgium we use special paper bags and they can hold warm (not hot) bread perfectly without going soggy. 😉

[@CountessGemini]

Thank you! When you get hot bread at a bakery it's packed into a paper bag, if anything. Noone in their right mind would wrap it in plastic.

[@nozee77]

And it gets moldy very fast if 'sweating' in a bag. Even temperature changes that cause condensation inside plastic packed bread make it go bad faster.

[@nomaam9077]

Every bakery uses paper bags for packaging. They must know what they are doing.

[@blondkatze3547]

In France, Germany and Italy you can always buy fresh , high quality bread. It tastes so delicious when you are on vacation in Italy and eat fresh fish with salad and fresh bread and a glass of white wine.

[@eucitizen78]

Yes so true. What else can we wish for in live. It's just perfect and you can have it without a mlillon dollar bank account

[@rmamon2554]

Try real German or Austrian black Bread and you will run home crying, this Italian and French white Bread gets boring so fast.

[@Bramfly]

All over Europe in fact, delicious breads in the Netherlands, Belgium, etc as well😊

[@EVPaddy]

@@Bramfly and Switzerland

[@LMGLUDA]

Basically in most of Europe. These videos always focus on France because of the baguette stereotype, that's all americans know. In my small 10K people town there's easily 10 bakeries making bread and other stuff. Even supermarkets have bread that is way better than 99% of american bread, done every day. And of course we also have "sliced bread", it just uses less crap causing cancer.

i still cant imagine that most of americans thought bread is sweet... and never had real bread

[@DSP16569]

But you invented the crust-less sandwich. The base the americans then made to some artificial chemical experiment.

[@petretepner8027]

@@DSP16569 No, the British did that. The bread has crust to begin with, but they cut it off before serving the sandwiches (to people of distinction, of course, not the hoi polloi).

[@GuyWets-zy5yt]

First time i traveled in USA long ago , 1972 and many times after, i remember a smell everywhere I called "America smell".I still remember a sweet smell everywhere in supermarkets or where u find food.I don t know exactly what it is.Maybe corn syrup in everything and artificial perfumes???Greeting from Belgium🍀🍀🍀

[@AdamKrukowski]

My friend lived in Chicago for a two years, but she returned to Poland because she said she had nothing to eat in America and she missed normal food.

[@kamakita8698]

she didn´t know how to cook?

[@etienne8110]

​@@kamakita8698the issue is finding good ingredients in the US. Also time it takes. Even at "farmers market" you ll find overpriced low quality products compared to what can be found at any european supermarket.

[@zuzauramek9850]

The USA is one big Fast Food "restaurant" while Europe is a small atmospheric cafe.

[@teribendt94]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, Nonsense.

[@zuzauramek9850]

@@teribendt94 no

[@zuzauramek9850]

@@teribendt94 No

[@paulashe61]

Atmospheric sometimes characteristics

[@royvankan2723]

You probably mean: a big Fast Food DRIVE THRU Restaurant. 😂

[@linnjulo]

In the US you find the extreme - the industrialised junk or the homemade diy sourdough bread. The middle ground is missing.

[@Phiyedough]

Here in Croatia I buy bread that is made in the next village and it does not cost any more than the bread from the supermarkets in town. It is unsliced but I slice the whole loaf and freeze it so I can just get out a couple of slices at a time.

[@bastian6625]

As a German who lived in Zagreb for some time, I can confirm that Croatian bread can be actually quite tasty.

[@tins369]

I freeze my bread as well. Its the best way to keep it longer "fresh"

[@Blackadder75]

@@tins369 it's ok, but I still prefer to buy new bread 4 days in a week, usually sunday, monday, wednesday and friday. I can tolerate yesterday's bread and this way we always have it ready, we don't need to unfreeze it. And I go past bakeries / supermarkets with bakeries at least 3 times per day, buying stuff takes only a few minutes, pop in , pop out so it doesn't feel like a chore. But we also keep some in the freezer as backup

[@gillianrimmer7733]

Here in the UK, I have 2 bakeries in town, and they will put your bread through a bread slicer if you ask them.

[@wallerwolf6930]

In Croatia, as in all Balkan states (former Yugoslavia), there is practically only one type of bread: a kind of flatbread made from wheat.

[@helenwood8482]

Fun fact: Americans pay more for their "cheap" bread than we in the UK pay for the good stuff.

[@jonallen-dt2ui]

Maybe not as bad as American bread but, most of our bread is shit now tbh.

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

😂Brexit!good luck

[@billyo54]

There are a growing number of artisan bread companies in the UK. It is possible in most areas to buy healthy bread these days. However, most mass produced bread that fill the shelves of Tesco, Sainsbury and even M&S are pure garbage and only marginally less harmful than US bread. Britain invented the method of manufacturing soft tasteless bread with longer shelflife even before the Americans. Most of my European friends who visit the UK and Ireland are mystified by our reliance on the infamous 'sliced pan'. So NO, British bread is generally crap, unfortunately.

[@luxter858]

​@@billyo54im english/german and i can tell u that english bread is still pretty sweet. I mean i know of ppl that think scones are normal bread 😂

[@bakes82]

Really because you can get bread here for like 79c -1$ at most places for the generic store brand, again you only see what people want to show you people arent buying "wonderbread", also many stores offer fresh baked bread even in podunk low population areas. Also a lot of you you guys see as "America" is the urbanized centers which by population is a lot, is a fraction of what makes up the states. Our town of ~20k has a couple of bakeries and butchers, while it might not be as convenient as in Euroland, we all have cars and the 10min drive isn't that big of a deal.

[@astridswart2261]

American expats ore toerists often complane that at the end of the day ,there is not much bread left ,but that is because its freshly baked every morning ,its my job in de Netherlands 😊

[@koalameat9523]

You will be spoiled for choices in a danish bakery and dont expect not to put on weight either

[@chronic2023]

Danish pastries are wonderful!!!❤

[@charlottehardy822]

In the UK, I think in2022 subway bread was classified as cake instead of bread because of its high sugar content 😂😂

[@lynwratten9857]

I didn't know about subway, will have to look into that as it puts me off them.

[@charlottehardy822]

@@lynwratten9857 channel 5 (?) did a documentary about it and Ireland had a court case about it earlier than that I believe. Having worked there, (many years ago) I tried the bread on its own and it is very sweet.

[@petretepner8027]

That was in Ireland, where cake is taxed at a different rate from bread. In the UK, both bread and cake are classified as "food" (unlike biscuits, which are a "luxury") and taxed at zero-rate.

[@charlottehardy822]

@@petretepner8027 I stand corrected, I thought the UK changed it since as well but we just call it bread with a high sugar content. Still too sweet though.

[@petretepner8027]

@@charlottehardy822 No argument there.

[@adolphusputin-5605]

i'm surprised airport security in France let him through with a dangerous weapon. Imagine him feeding that "bread" to a unsuspecting victim. Hope security will do a better job next time.

[@steemlenn8797]

I was surprised too. I know they are supposed to confiscate cheese, not sure about bread.

[@blackletter2591]

I think the US bread situation is just part of a much bigger picture: the laws and standards there are explicitly made to benefit the commercial sector instead of the general population. It's hard to think of a single thing in the US where the public isn't being openly screwed over to benefit the corporate sector. It's an ethos so deeply imprinted on Americans that they don't notice it happening.

[@kategogo9045]

This is why I make my own bread with only four ingredients: flour, water, yeast and salt. Lately, I don't even use yeast, but make my own sourdough starter. A TON of difference.

[@CountessGemini]

I live in a small town in Poland and bakeries are very popular here and that's where most people get their bread and rolls. Even supermarkets have little bakeries and they sell freshly baked goods, although they are considered a less healthy option. The kind of bread that is popular in the US is also available here, but definitely not as popular. We actually call it "toast bread" because it's edible only when it's toasted.

[@tabaaza9884]

In Poland, bread is baked with sourdough and yeast. There are so many types of bread that even a small bakery has at least 3 to 5 types of bread. I will only mention rolls, challah, croissants, żuliki, obwarzanki, bagels and kolaches. There are definitely more types of bread in large bakeries. I really like shopping at the Portuguese padari, the Italian forno, the French le maison de Four, the German Bäckerei. I recently ate delicious bread in Montenegro. Toast bread is semi-edible and terribly unhealthy for the intestines. It should not be eaten too often. I liked the bread the least in the UK, luckily they have scones there.

[@andreaskiss6447]

I agree totally. Bread in Europe is great.

[@epicjane]

And we’re not even talking about German bread!❤️

[@Sandro_de_Vega]

Even germans dont talk about german bread bc they prefer russian.

[@Capt.-Nemo]

@@Sandro_de_Vega lol never

[@Dr-Zed]

@@Sandro_de_Vega the hell are you talking about?

[@EinChris75]

@@Dr-Zed perhaps some word play. russian bread is a snack in germany, not real bread.

[@epicjane]

@@Sandro_de_Vega Nope! Not once !😀 I’m still busy with the variety of 3000 different breads here. No offense!

[@XBluDiamondX]

Bread from a US grocery store has nothing on freshly baked bread. I got tired of paying stupid prices for bread and I've been making my own for about a year and change now. It's really easy to make, especially with using metric and a scale (imperial for baking is just complete ass).

[@rmamon2554]

Imperial is for Kings and Queens who like to marry there cousins and sisters or brothers.

[@ericbatemanrodgers]

I make my own bread in England all I use is strong bread flour yeast and water tastes lovely

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Not even a pinch of salt? I add a hint of sugar to the yeast mix to assist the fermation too.

[@MarkmanOTW]

Agree with @t.a.k.palfrey3882 on those ingredients for a standard, basic loaf. Given that a basic 1.5kg bag of bread flour costs around £1.50-£2.00 (wherever you happen to buy it) - you can make 3 x loaves for a cost of around 60p per loaf. Plus you get the nutritional and health benefits of only eating safe, natural ingedients, and it tastes great too. 😀 I've been increasingly making my own bread since Lockdown in 2020. Also I've noticed that my mother (who developed Crohn's in her 60s, now in her 80s and has been advised to eat Gluten-free) suffers less with homemade bread. This only reinforces my view that the problem for many 'allergic' gut problems are not being caused by the wheat in bread and baked goods, but the additives, enhancers and preservatives that have been added to factory-made bread/cakes/pastries/sandwiches etc - it's the regular consumption of these over the years that has caused the digestive problems that many people seem to suffer from these days.

[@durabelle]

I also make my own bread in England. I've got a sourdough starter, so the only things I need to buy are flour and salt for a basic loaf. Once every 3-4 days I take my starter out of the fridge, take 50g out of the jar, and mix it with 310g of tap water, 8g salt, 300g of wholegrain flour and 200g of strong bread flour to make a dough. Then I feed the scrapings left in the starter jar with fresh flour and water and leave it on the table for a few hours until it's peaked before I pop it back into the fridge. I work the dough in the bowl a few times over the next few hours, then let it sit on the table, and put it in the fridge in the evening, ready to be baked the next day (or anytime in the next few days really). There's quite a lot of waiting in the process, but the active working time is only an hour in all plus baking time, all the other stages are just passive and not very time sensitive. Super cheap too. Not going back to the boring supermarket bread anytime soon.

[@durabelle]

Sometimes I get wild though and change things up by adding other stuff to the bread. Different flours (like oat, spelt, rye), butter, caraway seeds, syrup, cranberries, nuts, sunflower seeds, sun-dried tomatoes, chives from the garden etc. Those fancier versions get a bit more expensive of course, but still cheaper than similar loaves from the stores, and with no surprise ingredients.

[@MarkmanOTW]

@@durabelle It takes some courage and spending some time initially. But once you've turned out some decent loaves and got the technique and timings down, it's pretty easy. As you say, it's the resting time of the dough that takes the time.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Quote of the Day: “I want to be naïve. I don’t want to know the truth.”

[@threemonkeys7365]

Ignorance is bliss.

[@Bud_Terence]

It's a natural way of preventig from going mental.😁

[@drwhotardis]

Bread isn't supposed to taste sweet...except in the USA. The Germans make very good bread. The best 6 months I've had is living above a bakery in Nice. Waking up way before 5am to the smell of fresh bread...OMG. Dabbing butter on bread still warm from the oven and watching it melt, with some French brie...heaven.

[@Harrison944]

Our bread isnt sweet though

[@camf7522]

@@Harrison944who’s bread isn’t sweet?

[@Harrison944]

@@camf7522 US bread

[@_Professor_Oak]

@@Harrison944 it is, but it's just normal to you. Obviously it's not sweet compared to candy or something, but it's definitely sweet. Americans are probably the #1 consumers of sugar though, so it's not surprising that even their savory meals have to taste sweet to satisfy the diabeetus. To people outside the US, your bread tastes like cake. 😂🤷‍♂

[@Harrison944]

@@_Professor_Oak Im telling you it literally aint sweet at all. Have you tried it before?

[@lesleydickson7746]

My friends and I have actually taken bread with us on holiday to the USA. The vacuum packed kind that you finish in the oven. We were fed up with not being able to get decent bread. Now that the USA has Aldi there might be some hope. 😊

[@JorigenLeBeig]

USA = the deepest "bread" hell.🔥 So deep that you can't even leave "bread" without a quotation mark. FRA/GER = the highest of all bread heavens.😇 Especially when you combine both countries and their bread creations. And the very best thing is to bake fresh French baguettes, corissants or German bread yourself. The aroma when you take them out of the oven perfumes the whole house and is divine. And finally, well ... ... bonjour à tous des Caraïbes françaises 🏝 et bonne journée 🥖🥐🥯 ...d'un franco-allemand.😃

[@AlbandAquino]

You'll have to admit that the editing is gold 👌🏼 The music, the narration, the pace. Perfect.

[@jean-jacquesgentric2090]

In France, after a busy half-day at work, you go out into the street for your lunch break. You have between 1 and 2 hours to eat. You can't go 200 meters down the sidewalk without coming across a boulangerie. And then, the magic smell of crusty bread, just out of the oven, bewitches you. Long before you reach the bakery window, the aroma of the golden baguette awakens your stomach and makes you imagine the Paris ham, gherkins and crudités of an irresistible sandwich. What an invitation to indulge! What a promise of tasty enjoyment! And all made with fresh, natural ingredients, whose taste and mouthfeel have nothing in common with the bland, artificially flavored and sweetened industrial foods that flood the shelves of food stores in so many Anglo-Saxon countries. Bon appétit !

[@MoreJps]

1-2 hour lunch break???

[@aidanclarke6106]

@@MoreJps- The legal minimum is 45min but 1h15-1h45 is more common

[@ront2424]

​@MoreJps yes mate work to live not live to work.

[@petretepner8027]

@@MoreJps Of course. Even in Belgium, where I worked (when I did), less than an hour would have been unthinkable. Come to think of it, I don't think my union would have allowed me to take less.

[@denise4954]

Hello, nothing can compare with a real, original pain au chocolat or 🥐 or even brioche. Italian Chiabatta, Turkish Flatbread OMG sooooo good. Feli from Germany has an amazing video about the number of McDonald's in the USA and castles in Germany. Among other things, the number of bakeries in Germany. Greetings from Germany to all bread fans in the world 😘

[@tabaaza9884]

Chiabatta is my favorite Italian bread for bruschetta. Other wheat breads don't work as well. I also really like Georgian puri, similar to Turkish bread. I like bread too much. Very bad due to the size of my hips.

[@rmamon2554]

Only black Bread for me. White am I myself or rather pig pink.

[@tabaaza9884]

@@rmamon2554You and this bread look good together. The contrast is pleasing to the eyes.

[@ariannatrapani5824]

Italian here and while I love my local typical bread (almost every Italian town has its traditional bred), I enjoy very much the German and the French ones. Now you can buy Indian, Arab and Jewish bred too in the big urban bakeries. About the Turkish bred, I was in Turkey many years ago but still remember that bakeries were everywhere and open all through the night. You could buy fresh, warm bread (only from natural yest) at 4 am. Wonderful!

[@petretepner8027]

@@tabaaza9884 Ciabatta (not "Chiabatta") was invented in1982 by a baker in the Veneto, in response to the popularity of French baguettes.

[@deniskramer3562]

France has good bread??? As a German I always miss good bread when visiting France.

[@martynnotman3467]

France outside of Paris and the far north has amazing bread. Germany has great bread but by far the nicest is Denmark...

[@DSP16569]

Baguette Boule de pain Brioche Croissant Faluche Ficelle Fougasse Pain aux noix Pain brié Pain complet Pain couronne Pain d’épices Pain de campagne Pain de mie Pain de seigle Only to name the more prominent once.

[@bastian6625]

​@@martynnotman3467I don't agree. I am German who lived in Paris for 3y and Denmark 4y and now Italy 3y. German bread is just something different in my eyes (which doesn't mean that you can also find nice bread in France, Italy or Denmark).

[@Sandro_de_Vega]

@@martynnotman3467 Polish workers literally warn other poles to not buy german bread bc its inedible. And as someone who on regular basis spend in germany some time... they are right. Best german bread is that one that you can buy in russian grocery stores.

[@lupolinar]

@Sandro_de_Vega The amount of BS is this post is astounding. Go back to russia, if you like their stuff. Also, a polish person would rather eat dirt then bread from russia.

[@Sclero80]

I'm Italian, I live in a small neighborhood and I have a small bakery behind my house, in I have a small grocery store and on the left a hairdresser and a tobacconist/newsstand 😂 it basically takes you 10 minutes to go around everyone 😂😊

[@calvinang1]

It indicates that Italy has good Town Planning Development 👍🏻

[@calvinang1]

It indicates that Italy has excellent Town Planning

[@k.s.8064]

Sorry to say that JP, but I am a German-French guy and the German bread is way much better than the bread from France. Most of it, what I've seen in your vid, was white bread. And for sure, the bread from France is great, too. But the really good bread is the tasty dark one in all possible variations. And the darker bread is even more healthy than the white bread. So next time in Germany JP, just have a "Brotzeit" somewhere...

[@woodchuck94og]

German bread sucks

[@k.s.8064]

@@woodchuck94og What's wrong with you??? I guess you've never had any German bread and doesn't know anything about the bread culture in Germany at all!?!

[@woodchuck94og]

@@k.s.8064 u for once Should take a trip to Switzerland, its like Germany but the food is actually good

[@k.s.8064]

@@woodchuck94og The topic was bread and not food in general. By the way, I have lived in Switzerland and food is different, right, but bread is definetly better in Germany!!!

[@tabaaza9884]

It's true, baguettes and brioches are delicious in France, but dark German bread is wonderful. Although I like Polish wholemeal bread the most. Fresh with real butter.

[@101steel4]

Walking down to a bakery of a morning to pick up a fresh loaf, should be the start to everyone's day.

[@Talkshowhorse_Echna]

Thats why in germany we call american bread toast. We don't belive its real bread and we think the only thing its good for is making taost.

[@tinawitte420]

I always get the shivers when I see someone eat it un-toasted

[@helenwood8482]

Don't blame Britain. Our bread is still good.

[@Michael-kt6gi]

Bread in the U.k. has improved significantly in recent years. I'm a 70 year old now, when I was a kid bread was almost totally awful processed rubbish, similar to American bread, but without the sweetness.

[@catgladwell5684]

@@Michael-kt6gi "I'm the mother in Mother's Pride!". It was vile stuff.

[@martingerlitz1162]

I love Britain. But.... Bread..... Better have it in France, Germany, Poland 🤤

[@samgraves7330]

Bread isn’t supposed to be good for days, you need to eat it in a day or two

[@101steel4]

A fresh loaf from a bakers in the morning 😋