How The U.S. Ruined Bread || FOREIGN REACTS

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[vanthspiritwalker]

In Italy we have hundreds of different kinds of bread, but to check the quality of bread you need to check the list of ingredients and this list for bread should be like this: Flour, Water, Yeast, Salt. Period. This is bread. Occasionally you can have some minor additions like oil or milk or butter, but that is it. When your ingredient list is longer than two lines and contains a number of obscure chemicals, that is not bread, quite simply

[topoe]

In Germany we've got 3183 different kinds of bread and no we don't really consider your Sandwich bread is "real" bread.
Going trough the comments on this video makes me glad to see so many different countries agreeing to that.

[joyridgway]

In some countries, US bread is called cake.

[janettewood]

The sugar content in US bread is what shocked me when I first visited. Crazy sweet.

[TheRealTopGunZ]

In Greece we have around 11.000 bakeries. And our population is comparable to that of New York (around 11m to around 9m), which means that if that 3000 bakeries in the USA is valid, we have 100 times more bakeries per capita than the US. We consider industrial bread as "toast bread", a cheap, lower quality alternative to have for an emergency and to make "tost", our take on paninis.

[ReckDrogeek]

If you ever go to France and come by Bordeaux, I'll give you a food tour ^^
PS : if the bread ends its life dry and not moldy, then you have either "croûtons" or "pain perdu" ahead of you ! One for the soup, the other for the soul.

[mW]

In Europe we dont necessary need to have bakeries everywhere anyway because we can buy real fresh bread in regular supermarkets, not just those toasties that stay edible for weeks.

[LalaDepala_]

Dutchie here. Bread is life. I always thought it was so weird to hear Americans say that they don't eat bread when they are on a diet etc 😂

[rbelu]

As a French, I must say that yes we definitely have great breads here but we're not the only country in Europe or in the world to have great break. I mean look at Indian Naan and Paratha or Italian Foccacia.

Problem is clearly Industrial Sh**** Breads and I must admit we do pretty bad bread here in France also. Ok, there is no Potassium Bromate ... But we have a lot of fake bakery which only sell reheat industrial frozen bread which have a similar taste as a piece of paper. And we also have some entire shelf of industrial breads in our supermarket.

We have a famous brand here called "Harry's" very british name but it's a company based in Chateauroux. I just checked the ingredients and ok wheat flour and water are the firsts ingredients but then we find sugar, oil, vinegar, broadbean flour, artificial lavour including alcohol (why do we need aroma in bread ?!, colouring ingredients like curcuma (so it's not too white, white is a bad color for bread here in France we associate it with poor quality bread), acerola (WTF is this in bread), wheat gluten (probably to accelerate the process)

[spawderbat]

In Spain too, the culture of the bread, the good bread, across Europe it's important. We love the bread❤

[Ana-]

When I was in America, I was horrified by how sweet the bread was. We bought several types and each one was too sweet to taste the sandwich ingredients like butter, salami, pickles. Like if you put salty ingredients on donuts without icing. In addition, to make it so durable, it is necessary to add a lot of additives. 🤢

[elderin]

Heelo American, as french i will tall you the best advice to have a good bread : make it on your own.

It's very easy and cheap.

[annealappel]

You should go to France, it's really a beautiful country with a lot of differents landscapes ! Not just Paris

[ogerpinata]

In Germany we buy quarters of bread "wheels" (yes, its loaf but they are round) and slice them ourselves.
Our breads are a lot different frim Frances. More herbs and darker in complection and more compact in its makeup and feel.
We even got a bread museum.

American bread is just very sad.

[JohnHazelwood]

In Germany you can find over 3, 000 different types of bread - more than in any other country! :)

[RustyDust]

Oh, Germany WILL definitely keep the tradition of baking good bread going. Even though we lost a lot during the rise of the supermarkets in the late 60's, early 70's, many people remember their first time eating really good artisanal bread. And people are starting to demand a return to those traditions.
Ask any German what they miss the most about Germany when they visit anywhere else. The chance is incredibly high the answer is going to be: bread. At over 3000 types of registered bread in the central register of the baker's association Germany really has the largest number of different types. And it's one of the things we're really proud of. Mind you, there's crappy industrial style bread here as well. But those are not the staple food it is over in the States.😅

[crackpot]

Here in the UK the large grocery stores such as ASDA (think Walmart), Tesco and others have in store bakeries so good fresh bread is always available.
Sliced convenience bread is available but it is not toxic like the US equivalent and is usually just used to make toast. More and more of us are going for higher quality bread and other baked goods that are freely available and still relatively cheap.
The only (very small) downside is that the better bread does not maintain its freshness for more than two or three days but I find that I have completely eaten a medium sized loaf in that time.
My favourite is the beautifully crusty tasty and light textured multigrain wholemeal cobs that are popular here.

[DannyDierickx]

You could also buy a bread baking machine at home and do it that way. It's also traditional, you choose your ingredients and the machine does the kneeding, heating waiting, baking part. Easy peasy.
Now do milk (for real)

[andyhorvath]

This video focusses on France but the same story holds for all of Europe. I've been in the far north, the deep south, the far east and the west (where I'm living). There are artisanal bakeries in all countries everywhere with their own local specialities. For me, where I live in The Netherlands, within a 5 minute walk there are several (I think 6 or so) bakeries, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek and Turkish. I'm not going to eat that factory stuff when I can have freshly baked bread, crispy and still warm, it's a daily trip for me. Shame though that there isn't an Hungarian bakery, so I have to bake my burgonyás kenyér, pogácsa and kalács myself ...
Of course in supermarkets you can also buy that wonder bread like stuff but I actually don't know anyone that eats it.