US Military's Huge Overseas Bakery Factory 🍞 for Servicemen & Families Across Europe

#bakery #factory #europe
U.S. Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES/The Exchange) bakery plant and bottled water plant at Grünstadt Depot, Germany.
In the bakery plant more industrial sized machines methodically mix, measure and construct cookies, cakes, pastries, tortillas, buns and breads destined for the shelves of restaurants, commissaries and kitchens across Europe.
AAFES/The Exchange operates four bakeries overseas for military and family members (one at Grünstadt Depot, Germany and one at Camp Humphreys, South Korea and two at Yokota Air Base and Camp Kinser, Japan).
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[@roboko6618]

man imagine gettign deployed to Europe where there is some of the best freshly baked bread around only to find yourself eating mass produced conveyor bread

[@Alphonselle]

A lot of the oversea service members developed a taste for real bread after being deployed in European bases, which is why there is only 1 factory bakery in Germany, compared to one in Korea and even two in Japan, since there is a severe lack of good bread in those countries still. But more importantly, even though all these products are made in 1 single factory, they bear brands that a lot of people find familiar, which could be a comforting presence for many young men and women whose deployment is the first time they've come anywhere far away from their hometown, let alone out of the country. Homesickness is a widespread issue.

[@HughNeylan]

Japan has some great bread!

[@smilingpolitely12345]

This is NOT best bread out there , that is processed POS !

[@bensmith7536]

Lower paid servicemen and women with bigger families, paying off a house or student debt, helping elderly parents with living costs etc and a spouse that doesnt work might not have the money and time for artisan bread to feed 5 people every day. Think before you post.

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

​​@@bensmith7536Hey benny, might want to quote who you're responding to otherwise you come off as a tad obnoxious, think before you post.

[@tqwfn647]

空母から酵母まで全てお任せってやかましいわ！w

[@Tak_103]

このロジスティックをみると米軍って他の国の軍ってものと完全にちがいますよね．すごすぎる

[@コクヨかパイロットか]

フランスやイギリスや日本にはできない。米軍がやってるからという考えで真似すると、いやしようとすると痛い目を見る。条件と要素ってやつですね。俺が辞める原因を作ったバカな二等陸尉に言いたい。

[@五十嵐真一-h6v]

こんなことをやらかす国に、80数年前にケンカを吹っかけた極東の島国があってだなぁ…😅

[@bakemonomoke2642]

やはりドーナッツの所ではやたらと嬉しそうな声が聞こえますね。そして種類も多い。

[@60_daysff_per_year]

あのシロップのカーテンを見ると血糖値が上がりそうだな。

[@雪ノ下-m3s]

ぜーんぶ自前!ってのが本当に強みですよね👍✨

[@makoto4111]

食事は生活の基本だもんなぁ 世界中の何処へ行っても「いつもの味」が食べられる安心感は心強いだろうね 米軍の強みは兵站の強力さがあればこそなんだろうね

[@r8v106]

さすが米軍。軍隊には補給が欠かせないということを一番理解してる

[@user-po9lx2yk5s]

でも食べ物があっても戦車とか戦艦がなかったら戦えないよ？一番は工業力だと思う！

[@applepie-wv7mu]

その戦車戦艦も燃料がなきゃ動かない。補給は大事

[@toilet-meet]

⁠@@user-po9lx2yk5s その戦車や軍艦は誰が動かすんだ？ 結局、物資が揃ってても人がいなければ何もできないよ

[@user-po9lx2yk5s]

@@toilet-meet ああ！確かに！ じゃあ1番大事なのは人口の量ってことか…

[@semedain4869]

おかわりすると叱られる軍あったよなw

[@oredolove]

自前でパン工場とか守備範囲広すぎて草

[@Hiro-jr7qs]

まさかパンまで作ってるとは恐れ入る

[@hiroshiharayama]

ミリタリーチャンネルなのに兵器は一切登場せずにパンしか写ってないww

[@kenjirou6809]

水もおるで しかし人もろくに映らないのが清潔感あってよろしいですな 圧倒的機械化で淡々となんか作る機械見てるの好き

[@user-in1vx7sp2u]

軍隊に於いて補給は重要だから

[@nicholasmarshall3191]

While stationed in Germany, the bread at the local bakeries was incredible, and what we ate. We would not buy American bread, but having said that, this factory is a very impressive operation!

[@danaschoen432]

Miss the Brötchen and bratwurst! holy cow was that stuff good!

[@BAMACOUPE]

Brotchen and rotewurst was the good stuff in Stuttgart. I've never found a rotewurst in the US to match it. :)

[@redwolfexr]

German bread was definitely better, but if you lived in the barracks you were pretty much stuck with the AAFES bread in the mess hall. It was almost impossible to get off base during the hours that most of the small local bakeries were open and we didn't store food in the barracks.

[@robertfoerster566]

Yes a lot of people have mentioned that when in Europe. Canada is the same; we don't know what real bread is anymore as we've been acclimatized to the cheap stuff. That being said, going to a local bakery in either the states or Canada can get you a much better quality. Even something like Cobs bread, which is a chain....the sourdough is to die for.

[@豊彦小山]

天国ですか？ここは むせかえるほどのパンの焼ける匂いって最高

[@ツボツボ-g9p]

人の手がほとんどかかっていない。 すごいわ。

[@かしの-i9w]

食パンのところがまんま未来少年コナンのインダストリアだw

[@user-qf7cf6xm5d]

圧倒的資源とチート立地と工業力と人口がある上に兵站軽視しないとかすげえな

[@EnigMa-uf5go]

空母作りからパン作りまでさすが守備範囲広いな笑

[@sinjuku24]

補給が最強と言われている国なので食料も当然その一つですね。

[@noranekomusume]

空母も酵母も重要やでな

[@yanagi_manga]

​@@noranekomusume 酵空母艦というわけですか

[@サバの味噌煮-r8m]

@@yanagi_manga上手い😋

[@mysygisun3335]

食パンというのは、米国のパンだったのですね。

[@石川の釣り人オカP]

動画だけ見ていると、どう見てもごく普通の巨大なパン工場、しかしこれが軍の施設かと思うといかに十分な兵站が重要であるかという事を感じさせられずにはいられませんね、どんな最新兵器や最新装備も最終的に運用や整備をするのは人の手によるものですものね。

[@arnoldhenry]

I believe the products are for the base exchanges and supermarkets so the military family members can buy groceries like back in the United States. If you watch the video, you should have recognized some of the brands. I recognized Wonder Bread and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. The narrator said the bakery and the bottle factory have license agreements with American companies so that the military members and their families can a taste of home. There must be other facilities in Europe and Asia that have the same agreements. It's nice to have something to remind you of home. I don't know if you served in the armed forces, but ask anyone who were stationed overseas or any sailor or marine stationed on a ship, they will tell you stuff like that makes you feel good about serving your country. I did.

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

The military knows that providing the best chow possible makes service life more enjoyable.

[@PDsFactory]

すごい、自衛隊とかだと、国内のパンメーカーから購入しそうだけど、軍で作るのか？

[@sugumi8886]

民間購入はコスパに優れてるけど有事に安定調達するなら自前って事なんやろな 世界各地に派遣してるから各国の地元企業に依頼するのも大変なのかもしれん。

[@PDsFactory]

まあ、米軍なら半端ない数量だろうな@@sugumi8886

[@EX_DELTA]

@@sugumi8886 米軍規模となると自前の方が安上がりなんじゃない？ ここまででかいと量産効果でぼぼ民間と価格同じだろうし。 てか、でかすぎんよよ

[@nakamigi1089]

パン事情はわからんけどレーションはパッケージを見るに委託された？民間企業が作っているっぽい

[@DD_yura]

未来少年コナンのプラスチップパン工場を思い出したのは俺だけでは無いはず

[@BuiThiThuy36]

Thank you for sharing this interesting thing

[@gangster3591]

Yummy😋 The aroma from all those fresh-baked goods must be intoxicating

[@smilingpolitely12345]

That bread is a CRAP , Americans dunno what real bread is -_-

[@LegendLength]

username checks out

[@Retired88M]

I love a plain Krispy Kreme glazed donut or 2 or 3 with a piping hot cup of coffee

[@micade2518]

Yes, intoxicating from all the chemicals they contain!

[@kenjirou6809]

補給は大事 バイトテロにあわないよう機械化大事ってよく分かる動画

[@Retired88M]

So glad to see Krispy Kreme got the donut contract

[@Nurse_Diesel]

God bless America! Seeing those Krispy Kreme going by almost brought a tear to my eye.

[@RRaucina]

I would take the local german bread, but man what an operation of baking! INcredible tech. The US military budget exceeds that of most of the worlds small nations.

[@ore123ful]

あんだけ世界に基地があると自前で全部作っちゃうんだなぁ

[@jji4218]

ほぼ無限に戦えるアンパンマン😂

[@mysygisun3335]

食パンマンでしょ。

[@EX_DELTA]

アンパンは作ってないかもしれん

[@mikesahle1193]

Thank you 🙏 🇩🇪☝️for bread 🍞 and water 💦 probably more 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🫐🍓🍇🍉🍅🌽🍖🍗🥑thank you for your service merry Christmas 🎄🎁 and happy new year 🎈🎊🎆🌈

[@CrispinCourtenay]

With all of the fantastic breads in Germany, you are making Wonder Bread? There is no hope for humanity.

[@aportgirl]

Holy Moly that is Truly amazing. It’s wonderful that our armed services and family members have the taste of home.

[@stuartnjaii]

What taste is that?? Shit factory made conveyor bread full of preservatives. When u could buy freshly baked b4ead 😂😂

[@micade2518]

What "taste"? That of chemicals? When abroad??? Pfff!!! :o(

[@Sw-nt1cg]

Thanks God

[@gerardroll6468]

November 11th marks 105 years to the day that marked the end of World War 1… Whether you know today as “Veteran’s Day” or “Remembrance Day”, please pause to reflect & remember those who fought & died for our freedom… “At the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent”. May God bless ALL who have served & given their lives for their country & those who continue to serve 🙏😌🕊️. Take care & best wishes to all… From Australia 🇦🇺🫡🇦🇺

[@ilmarilampi]

酵母から空母まで

[@MajorWolf72]

Baking American bred in Germany is like growing American rice in China… or grow American tea in India… it doesn’t get better than German bread.

[@robmarshall5100]

So now we know why hostess still survives the government keeps wonder bread alive

[@piedpiper1567]

ワンダーブレッド作ってるのは驚いたw

[@user-re9bq4qc4v]

パンと一口に言っても国によって全然違うだろうし故郷の味がいつで食べられるってのはモチベーションの上でも大事かも　ホームシックなんかにもなりづらい？　日本人もなんだかんだ米が食いたくなるらしいし

[@jaxcell]

It's amazing how much money the US spends, outside the US.

[@uA-gy8wk]

未来少年コナンに出てきたインダストリアルのパン工場みたいだわ。

[@brettcrawford8878]

Never seen such a factory before. 🏭 😊.

[@homme436]

Whatever machines can do machines can do. Human hands are not needed. Wars can also be fought by machines, entirely.

[@Ignitedイグナイテッド]

軍のためだけの工場があるとは！😮

[@unguidedone]

i remember reading a interview of a german pow from ww2 who was given a kration while being detained in a work camp. he said if germany had this quality of food they would have won the war. so the most important yet invisible part of any war is the logistics. if you cant feed and supply troops domestically or at a front line base the war is already lost.

[@booboo699254]

"An army travels on its stomach"

[@micade2518]

@@booboo699254 Poor American soldiers, thank God, they have legs too!

[@micade2518]

" ... this quality of food ...", do you mean the ghastly cocktails of cancer-inducing chemicals that are the staple of what Americans call "food"?

[@watarukuriki668]

製造ラインに余計なカス一つ着いてないのは凄いな（食を預かるんだから当然っちゃ当然だけど）

[@lokesh303101]

Good!

[@isidro1120]

出来立て食べてみたいな

[@imisstoronto3121]

i cant believe people would prefer Wonder Bread over the incredible grain breads in Germany. WB is like soft white cotton.

[@totoroben]

Really reminds me of how far we've come with MREs

[@beebobfennoland9486]

At Yokota in the 80s we joked about the bread factory and the morge sharing the flormaldahide (sp)?. it smell good though.

[@arnoldhenry]

The bakery is making bread, doughnuts, and pastries for service members and their families. These are the same products you buy at your local supermarkets. The supermarkets are either on base or near the base and they are called commissaries. The commissary is where members and their families buy groceries for so they can have their meals at their homes. They buy bread, meat, vegetables, and condiments, like a typical family.

[@stephendey5576]

Duh

[@billmago7991]

These places employ more maintenance technician than bakers😂😂😂

[@tammycox9789]

Thank you all for your service.

[@ドンどですか]

ココをテロすれば、下手な弾薬庫よりクリティカルやな。

[@ipanzerschrecku4732]

thank you for your service

[@robertfoerster566]

Are the plants actually owned and operated or more a "lease" from existing bakery industry and exclusive?

[@ヘンリー2世-d6v]

アメリカ軍が専用に工場を作っているのですか？ それとも食品会社に依頼している？

[@Mike-k6n8u]

When I was stationed in Athens, Greece in 1977, our bakery was a former Wehrmacht bakery the Germans had installed in 1941. Still worked great and we supplied all the military units in Europe. The bakery was in a former Ford

[@micade2518]

I hope you kept the German bread recipes!

[@Mike-k6n8u]

Oh yeah, they had recipes for German Field issue bread that was awesome@@micade2518

[@ASAK0934]

食パンのパッケージが意外にカラフル 軍用だからもっとシンプルな物かと思ってた

[@patmcdonald766]

Imagine the jobs IN the USA if they were DOD spent money in the USA

[@tammycox9789]

I think what you are doing for our military is good. God bless you all and please come home safe and sound. We here at home miss all our men in the military.

[@gabyfields3235]

It would be healthier to eat the German (or other European) bread than this "Wonder Bread" crap!

[@tiko-ko3wo]

沖縄の牛乳パックがアメリカサイズが継続してる話も納得。

[@narayankulkarni5378]

What a lucky person's

[@lutomson3496]

having lived and stationed in Germany the local bread and food was much better the bottled water though was cheaper on base then at the BX and still remember reading the propaganda stars and stripes while serving...

[@32055064]

Needs english audio commentary

[@rss8363]

That's a lot of bread 🍞

[@jumpingjeffflash9946]

I remember getting USFK milk in Korea, it sucked. IIRC it's reconstituted milk with some kind of thickener in it. Once I got back to the world getting a glass of real milk was a treasure.

[@melonshop8888]

...mmmmMMM.!!! ALL FRESH BAKED. 😋😋😋

[@sylviagibson4639]

I can’t imagine buying or eating that gross mass produced “bread" while living in Germany.

[@TerrySmith1953]

Wonder Bread for the troops. Something to look forward to! 🤪

[@0dbm]

Looks like rainbow bakery received a Military contract Could you tell us what other American companies have received such contracts

[@sandrasykes3026]

I 👀 Wonder brand & another brand of bread. Are the recipes different for each brand?

[@semperfi6801]

Bakeries of this magnitude typically use genetically modified and bromated flour. Two of the many reasons there are more gluten and gut problems in the world today. You're better off buying ancient grain wheat berries and grinding flour yourself or purchasing ancient grain flour, which is more expensive but easier on the gut and easier for gluten-intolerant people to digest. Amazing production line, no doubt, but nothing I would want to put in my body.

[@schs1977]

What is "ancient grain flower"? BTW - I believe it's safe to say MOST people in the military just as in the US itself, have no gluten problems.

[@semperfi6801]

@@schs1977 It's flour seed and production that has been handed down for generations and not been adulterated by genetically engineering the seed. Corn, sugar cane, rice, and soybeans, along with flour for industrial commercial use, have been modified either genetically or hybridized. While the chemical round-up is a known cancer-causing agent and it's illegal to dump it into waterways, scientists place a round-up gene into the seed, and the crop can then be sprayed liberally with round-up, and it will not kill the plant, but it will kill every plant around it. I saw a farmer in Virginia kill his whole corn field a few years back because he thought he had used round-up ready seed. When the field died, well, it kind of explains itself. The wheat that's produced today is nowhere near the ancient grains grown, say, 70 years ago. Thus the reason a lot of the modern wheat produced today is less digestible. The research is out there for those that want to know. Heritage Wheat is another great wheat/flour that hasn't been hybridized or genetically modified.

[@martinedepoorter1412]

That is not bread but a sponge !

[@nealwilliam]

Food & water this factory 😮

[@robnamowicz8073]

I look forward to these bread factories being sold to the countries in which they reside, to help pay off our national debt. Let the host countries take them over when our troops come home.

[@brianloughnane781]

Amazing!

[@sungilkim8360]

God bless America !

[@guenterbaudach4543]

In grünstadt habe ich mal bei den Depot gearbeitet da war ich noch bei einer anderen Firma

[@BW12149]

When I was I USAF basic training back in 1972, my flight was doing our KP duties. We had huge sinks and sanitizing machines to clean the dishes and cookware which also was huge. We were told that whatever is sent back to us to put into the monster sink disposals we were not to talk about it or question why this had to be done. Besides the dood scraps from plates and dishes, we had to throw away down the disposal dozens of loafs of bread. It pissed me off, but we couldn’t say anything.

[@redwolfexr]

This is standard Food Safety. Once it is opened it NEVER goes back into stock. If you have too much bread (like if a tenant unit deployed without prior notice) and you get "fresh" stock you dump the older bread. During standard ops they can predict really closely what they need -- but once troops move around you have mess halls with too much perishable food and other mess halls that have to break out the emergency supplies. (EVERY mess hall has frozen and "B" (canned/dehydrated) rations in reserves) And if that somehow fails then there are MREs. The US learned hard lessons about keeping troops fed, every unit has a month or more stored on top of the Dining Fac reserves.

[@micade2518]

The disposal bins are the natural home of American "food"!

[@ssssss7112]

it was Camp Market too

[@Freedom384]

😮lots of

[@randyk7699]

Wow, notice it is not made in the USA!

[@ぷにぷに-b5n]

パン達カワイイ。

[@GianniBarberi]

Bakery has always been incorporated in the army's I visited a small fort in france, it had a big oven for bread, which heated the infirmary

[@t23001]

Seems like they have licenses from several U.S. bread brands.

[@MartinVSmith6334]

How about this for wasting taxpayers' money? Heineken beer is shipped to the USA from the Netherlands. It is then shipped BACK to Europe (Ramstein AB, Germany) where it is sold in the military exchange! Ramstein is about a 5 hour drive to the Heineken brewery!

[@Techrpms]

Nice 🎉

[@ks-kx9pq]

アメリカがイギリスに物資支給する際、『おい、イングリッシュマフィンじゃないじゃないか』とか小競り合いが勃発しそう

[@sliceoflife3036]

予想した通り、ワンダーブレッドにクリスピークリームといった、ナショナルブランドのライセンシーなんだね。MREも海外は現地生産・現地調達なのかな？生産場所（アメリカとやっているんだったら海外）の実況ビデオ紹介も含めて教えてください。

[@ProctorsGamble]

The reason Europeans live 5 years longer than Americans

[@jkbc]

seriously I thought donats are for the police, and White wonder bread are fed to the US Army? they deserve something better

[@jodyhahn825]

So, one factory makes bread but puts it into different brand labeled wrappers?

[@tangocharlie02]

Who would want mass produced bread in Europe .😂

[@hawkeye200996]

CCドーナツを米軍の工場でも造っていたなんて知らなかった ケーキやドーナツはもっと規模の小さな部隊でやっていると思っていた こんなに造れるならコストコに卸してくれたりしないかな？

[@lean_sumek]

مُمتاز❤❤

[@polypoly96]

自衛隊もおにぎり工場持てば良い

[@naru7322]

自衛隊は人員と金銭的に無理

[@ちくたく-e2r]

セントラルキッチン方式より学食方式のほうがいいかもね、地産地消で地域に貢献できるし

[@猪狩寿明]

ヤマザキ製パンの比じゃないな！全てが驚愕　空前絶後だ🍞

[@charlescowart5423]

I wonder why these are packaged as 'Wonder Bread' and 'Krispy Kreme' when they are quite clearly being made by AAFES. I suppose it's all under license but why not just call it AAFES bread?

[@charlescowart5423]

Note they answer this question at the end of the video ~ 7:45.

[@Sagittarius-A-Star]

It's mentioned in the end that they have a dozen of licenses.

[@terryc7142]

If they have the recipes and the licenses, then it's the real deal.

[@frankirvine316]

Looks Yummy To Me✅🥳

[@user-gk7fu4jf6b]

クリスピークリームドーナツが食べられるんっ！！

[@きつねうどん-m6i]

将校向けはバター多めとか航空機パイロットはロットを変えて体調変化に対応とかしてるんだろうか？