• Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Sorry but toast is made from bread. That there would be legally called cake in large swathes of the planet

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      4 months ago

      No it wouldn’t.

      Even in France, arguably the biggest of the bread snobs, they call American style white bread: pain de mie (soft bread) and they call it pain grillé (toasted bread).

      This is just standard regular sliced bread.

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        4 months ago

        Actually American stuff is illegal in the EU, preservatives, bleaches, dyes, whatnot. What’s allowed to be called what will differ from country to country and you are not the biggest bread snobs, you’re just the most vocally snobbish.

        In Germany there’s Toastbrot, actual bread though noone in their right mind would eat it without toasting first, then bigger and thicker and fluffier slices which are considered an “American-style” style of toast (again: don’t eat them raw ewww) but as said not the real deal. Those latter ones may or may not be legally bread, it’s usually hidden in the fine print while the big print is “sandwich slices” or something. Thing is the stuff needs to be made from 90% flour, sugar+fat together max 10%, and if you want something that’s recognisable to Americans as bread you need to blow that limit.

        Oh and all are bound to use a proper sourdough process, over-engineered as it may be in an industrial setting they’re giving the dough enough time to actually pre-digest itself.

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        4 months ago

        I actually looked this up; wonderbread has 2.5 grams of sugar per 30g slice!

        Fuckin hell

        The worst offender I could find in France was Harry’s American bread. 1.2 grams of sugar per 40g slice

        In Ireland, if bread has more than 2 grams of sugar per 100g, it’s cake and is taxed as such

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      4 months ago

      No, we’re talking America here. That’s not nearly enough butter. It needs to cover basically the whole face of the toast.

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          4 months ago

          Indeed, as an American I feel it would only be exaggeration if the whole face of the toast was covered in so much butter that it’s white.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Why wouldn’t you want butter over the whole face of the toast? What kind of monster are you?

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          4 months ago

          The kind of monster who toasts my toast on the lowest setting, but still uses a full coat of butter.

      • OpenStars@discuss.online
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        4 months ago

        I was thinking the opposite: who needs the: toast, egg, or plates underneath - the coffee is mandatory though. Bacon on a paper towel needs less clean-up afterwards. :-P