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[fzoid]

That you measure the time in driving distance is already such a US thing 😂

[CipherGamesDev]

I'm from Poland and I work in a bakery. Not as a baker, but a person responsible, among other things, for cutting bread on a special machine. I remember, that one day a woman called us with a complaint. She was furious and demanding refund. She said we were selling old bread because it was stale after just three days. She couldn't believe that here, it's normal. She claimed that she had lived in the USA for over 30 years and bread was fresh there for two or even three weeks. In the end, she said she'll never buy bread from our bakery because we are frauds.

[telfer]

07:00 - definetly 5 minutes walking - in europe generally when someone talks about distance in time units (in cities) - the default is walking. If not he would probably automatically add 5 minutes by tram, or by car, or by bike, etc. Most of european cities are designed so that most people can have a small shop, or a bakery or pharmacy or green market or a caffe - etc, etc in 5 - 15 minutes walk from you

[mats]

The fact that her mind went straight to driving when the 5min. was mentioned shows how broken the infrastructure is in the US

[zapster]

I just love your reactions Heidi! In Germany, the bread tradition is as important as in France. (I love French croissants) Fun Facts: The German Bread Register of the German Bread Institute currently lists over 3, 000 different bread specialties that are baked and sold every day in Germany. There are approx. 9, 965 companies with around 35, 000 branches (approx. 45, 000 sales outlets) There is even a bread museum in Germany. The German bread culture was even included in the nationwide list of intangible cultural heritage by the national UNESCO commission in 2014. If you ask Germans abroad what they miss the most, you usually get the answer: German bread.

[PierreMiniggio]

7:01 It's very likely 5 minute walking, and they most likely will come across more than one within that distance.
It's the same for most big cities in France.
In a 5 minute walking distance I've 8 bakeries in my neighborhood in Toulouse.

[nose-vmgu]

In Chile, we also have this "bread culture", and I couldn't imagine living without fresh bread, even in supermarkets there's a section where they make bread, and you can literally see them making it.
Also, it's such an American thing to ask if it's 5 minutes by car hahahahahah it's 5 minutes walking, usually that's the default.

[TerryVogelaar]

I'm Dutch, so while I'm not in France, I can confirm that it usually is 5 minutes of walking – not driving – to the nearest bakery. There are 4 bakeries within a 5-minute walk radius around me, and supermarkets have their own bakery, so if I add those, there would be 9 in total.

[kcim]

In the czech republic and germany also I think you have bakeries build into supermarkets where while you can find one or two brands of packaged bread on the shelves you can go into the next isle to the bakery part of the supermarket and get freshly baked or in lesser ammount atleast heated up fresh buns and bread and sweet and salty pastries. It is absolutely unbelievable to me that fresh pastries are just not a thing in american supermarkets.

[bohomazdesign]

Im from Poland and when I was kiddo me and my friends used to get some pocket money to get some sweats, ice cream etc, but our all time favorite was to go to our local bakery and buy for ourselfs fresh leafs of bread and eat it dry (no toppings, nothing). delicious.

[rinkairiozuki]

I am Lithuanian. I lived close to Bakery my whole life. Sadly, it's closed now. But, i remember, my mom used to send us to buy bread as a kids. And you used to get bread straight from the Oven. Smell, taste and softness - like nothing else, out of this world. So we used to eat it on the way home.

Me and my brothers and sisters returning home with 1/5 bread left:
Mom: What the hell happened?
Me: Ahm... This... Ahm... A Dog?... Yes, dog attacked us.
Mom: FFS not again. Go buy another one.

Later if she send us to buy bread, she ask to buy 2 of them instead lol

[LonesomeSailor]

12:20 this face is priceless. "How is your sandwiche?" "hum well, taste yoga today!"

[sinelo]

I live in Spain. We also have good bread, and in fact I live about 5 minutes walking away from a bakery (2 bakeries about a year ago, but one of them closed down).
The truth is that when you let the bread ferment for long enough, the gluten becomes more digestible for our body. The increasing number of cases of gluten allergy is mainly due to that, because the bread has not fermented long enough and the body cannot digest the gluten properly

[FHB]

I am German and I live 2 minutes away from three different bakeries. Additionally I would suggest trying all the bread in central Europe, French bread is delicious, German bread also has a long tradition and it is absolutely fantastic.

[unknowndane]

In Denmark we basically have different stages for all this, we have more preserved bread in stores, but the stores also have bakery departements (some also have a butcher) and we have plenty of local bakeries. My city of 5000-ish have 2 bakeries

[N-_Hr]

The central difference between food safety laws in the US vs the EU is this: in the US, you must prove that an ingredient or additive is harmful for it to be banned. In the EU, you must prove that an ingredient or additive is safe before it will be allowed.

[jounik]

The bread-like substance sold in the US is closer to a plastic sponge than it is to an actual piece of bread.

[DruncanUK]

I feel that the UK is kinda halfway between France and USA. Our supermarkets sell both the plastic long life bread (albeit without the cancer inducing ingredients) and the fine artisan type bread that is even cooked instore daily. We don't have as many individual bakeries as France does though which is a crying shame.

[pascalf]

Bakery's are usual in 5 min walking distance. You should see German bread. I could be wrong but I think we're number one in regards to variety with ~3200 different types of bread.

[BjoernVT]

A few years a very good friend of mine from the US came over to Germany to work here at a customer 's site for a bunch of weeks. When I after a few weeks got the opportunity to work with him and we went through the pedestrian area he was literarily shocked to see kids (like in the strolly) delightfully chewing on bread (not like chocolate croissants, just bread), as if the parents gave them candy, so he basically bought some to find out by himself and he was like "Now I actually get what you meant, when you asked, if there are places to buy real bread in the US" ...
I know, there are some hidden gems, of course, but even if, it is like a luxury endeavor rather than something normal. I can say, that my wife and I found a lovely little bakery north of the Golden Gate Bridge (I think ins Sausalito), where you could get proper bakery products and good coffee, too :)
I agree, if you can, cut your bread only before you eat, it is so much more delicious when it is totally fresh!