Wonder if this shift corresponds to the age of automobiles

  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    9 months ago

    I wondered why Europeans kept calling American bread cake until I looked at the ingredients on your average pseudo-wheat loaf of bread.

    High fructose corn syrup is like the third ingredient. Followed closely by “cellulose filler,” aka, sawdust.

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      9 months ago

      My first response was, “damn, even my expensive whole wheat bread?”, but then I looked at the rest of the ingredients, and didn’t see any I thought should be higher. What do you want to be there?

      Whole wheat flour, water, sugar, cracked wheat, yeast, gluten, whey, less than 2% of …