Americans haven't the faintest idea of what good bread is. Most of the people living here have never been to a bakery in the morning picking out freshly made baked goods like bread. At best they see a "bakery" at some super store and its nothing but pre-made cakes, some really badly made French and Italian loafs (they dont hire bakers for this, its usually some teens with a sheet of paper telling them how to bake), and if youre lucky maybe some rolls.
It's a shame really, I miss it the most from Europe.
Oh, yes, us poor sheltered Americans. No 'real' bread in sight. Not a bakery to be found in the entire country. No ovens in our homes. No flour or yeast in the stores. Whatever will we do?! 🙄 You might want to get out more.
If that were true then bakeries wouldn’t exist in America
Hypothesis doesn’t hold water
My town of 6k has the supermarket… but also there is two coffee shops that bake their own bread/pastry and a bagel house that makes all their bagels from scratch in town.
From a business perspective it doesn’t make sense to resell bread when it’s one of the cheapest ingredients to make… same with noodles, never understood why businesses buy dried noodles.
This argument is so tired. Just about every supermarket in the US has a bakery that makes fresh bread every day, all cities have local bakeries, many places have access to artisanal bread if you look for it.
And genuinely as someone who has tried multiple American bakeries, theyre disappointing as shit. Hardly any decent selection, bad crust, dry, flavorless. Its a joke to even call American bakeries real bakeries.
It would be the equivalent of calling European diners real American food. It ain't it chief.
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u/enigmatic_dankness 4d ago
Americans haven't the faintest idea of what good bread is. Most of the people living here have never been to a bakery in the morning picking out freshly made baked goods like bread. At best they see a "bakery" at some super store and its nothing but pre-made cakes, some really badly made French and Italian loafs (they dont hire bakers for this, its usually some teens with a sheet of paper telling them how to bake), and if youre lucky maybe some rolls.
It's a shame really, I miss it the most from Europe.