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I’m looking at american bread and man how tf do y’all live with rye bread rhat is as white as our white bread 💀

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@juniper to wit, our white bread (all wheat, no rye)


a loaf of a white bread, about …
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@juniper pumpernickel also just looks nothing like it does here, way more moist and smooth

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@charlotte
sugar corporations are legal mafias that regularly strongarm the fda to engorge every inch of foodstuffs with sugar, & criminalizing any would-be competitors to become borderline monopolies

the reason they’re allowed to do this is because they made bank during the transatlantic slave trades & were unregulated as hell before the industrial age even existed, for the same reasons the beauty industry, textile industry, & tobacco industry is the exact same mafia levels of bad

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@charlotte there are different types of rye flour, afawk in the US they use a different type of the flour that is lighter??

dunno too much about it, prefer sourdough to rye bread honestly

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@juniper yeah, but quite a bit of the rye flavor is only present in the darker flour that inraccludes more of the rye kernel itself

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@charlotte I'm looking at German bread and how tf do y’all live with "rye" bread that is half wheat 💀

(Typical ordinary varieties of rye bread in Russia are as dark as pumpernickel)

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@IngaLovinde wouldn’t half-rye bread be “mischbrot”?

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@charlotte yeah I mean that full rye bread is not that widespread here.
Maybe that's just linguistical differences though; in Russian we don't have "wheat bread" or "rye bread", we have "white bread", "gray bread" and "dark bread". In Germany, "dark bread" seems to be rare (besides pumpernickel), everything else would be called "gray bread" in Russian at most.

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@IngaLovinde my guess is that grey bread is mischbrot

weißbrot is common enough though, although maybe not at bakeries

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@charlotte regular baguettes for example are white bread in Russian.
But even if German has a word for that, I don't think it's a part of general classification of all breads into three types? While this is the main classification in Russian.

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@IngaLovinde i guess 100% wheat products are too special to just be raccalled “weißbrot” even though they are just weißbrot

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@charlotte legit used to think I hated white bread but it turns out I just hated the fact that American white bread often has fucking *sugar* added

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@vikxin “american bread is cake” stereotype not helped by someone showing me “marbled bread” which looks exactly like cake

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