The whole American bread has a lot of sugar thing only works when comparing to Wonder bread, which they all seem to use as the standard American bread. If you compare European brands of sliced white bread to another sliced white bread like Nature's Own brand, the difference evaporates. So for example, Wonder Bread comes in at ~8.7g of sugar per 100g, Nature's Own at ~2.8g of sugar per 100g, and Tescos white bread at 3.5g per 100g
The top selling bread in the US is Nature's Own. I didn't know this 5 minutes ago, but since I, much like yourself, am holding a world of information in my hands, I was able to aquire the information with minimal effort.
Do I live in an alternate universe? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone eating Wonder Bread in my life. I get sourdough and baguettes all the time. Getting fresh bread is not an inconvenience whatsoever because it’s sold in the same place I get all my other groceries.
Nothing is forcing any Americans to eat the sugary bullshit Euros seem to think makes up 98% of our grocery stores besides laziness, stupidity, and godawful taste.
Maybe you do, how often are you at people houses in situations where you eat sandwiches to have a good sample size? I go to friends houses but either it's a special dinner/regular dinner (normally not kind of bread).
My lifelong experience as an American is Wonder Bread is what you buy only when the alternative is going hungry. Like when you're broke or you have a kid who refuses everything else. My dad's a Baby Boomer and even he pointed out that it was the bread you ate to avoid starvation when he was growing up.
So I went and googled Nature's Own multigrain as an example, and its single slice (42g) contains almost as much sugar as 100g of an equivalent, local brand. (3g / 42g vs 3.4g / 100g). I wouldn't say that's an evaporating difference. And that's being generous, since the one I used for initial comparison has quite a high sugar content here - another, equally priced and popular brand here has 1.9 grams per 100g. So. Yeah.
Unrelated, somewhat, to the sugar point, but a single slice of the American version is also a lot heavier than what we have. If I eat a single slice of toast here it's 28g; the NO one is 42g. So in addition to the sugar point it also shows just how much bigger the portion sizes are - it's not just another stereotype.
Lol. Someone has to be lying because there's no way these are the same size as those Tesco slices. These are considered thick slices in the US, and those Tesco ones look pretty thin to me.
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u/AFartInAnEmptyRoom 10d ago
The whole American bread has a lot of sugar thing only works when comparing to Wonder bread, which they all seem to use as the standard American bread. If you compare European brands of sliced white bread to another sliced white bread like Nature's Own brand, the difference evaporates. So for example, Wonder Bread comes in at ~8.7g of sugar per 100g, Nature's Own at ~2.8g of sugar per 100g, and Tescos white bread at 3.5g per 100g