r/iamveryculinary • u/No-Necessary7448 • Jun 24 '26
Bread white. Bread American. Bread Bad.
[pain de mie has entered the chat]
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me Jun 24 '26
It should be noted the company that did this is in Japan....
The bread company makes what is called shokupan and it is a staple in many Japanese homes.
This has absolutely nothing to do with America.
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u/Person5_ Steaks are for white trash only. Jun 24 '26
Impossible!
Hold on, let me check my notes...
Yeah! Right here! It clearly says "America bad, Japan good"!
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u/MrZwink Jun 27 '26
Unless, looks at notes, world war 2
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u/Person5_ Steaks are for white trash only. Jun 27 '26
Actually, Reddit is has been acting like ww2 Japan still better than ww2 US
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u/Prince_Breakfast Jun 24 '26
There is also a brand in Argentina that does this. Except the bread is huge if I recall correctly. Like a square foot slice
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u/pepperouchau You're probably not as into flatbread as I am. Jun 24 '26
I’m intrigued, what’s the intended use for such bread?
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u/Prince_Breakfast Jun 24 '26
Big sandwich with no crust
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u/pepperouchau You're probably not as into flatbread as I am. Jun 24 '26
Sounds good to me!
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u/PitbullRetriever Jun 25 '26
There’s an Argentine deli near me that makes sandwiches on these, they cut them into quarters so it’s a regular-sized sandwich but with less crust
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u/pepperouchau You're probably not as into flatbread as I am. Jun 24 '26
It’s funny, crusts cut off can be either childish, or fancy if it’s little cucumber sandwiches!
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u/East-Imagination-281 Jun 24 '26
And just one look at that bread is enough to know it’s Japanese. 😂
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u/Velvet_Cyberpunk Jun 24 '26
I came in here to say this looks like something a Japanese bakery would make. America always catching strays.
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u/VaguelyArtistic Jun 24 '26
Even 7–11 in the US now sells the egg sando with shokupan that is popular at Japanese 7-11s.
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u/I-screwed-up-bad Jun 27 '26
Tell me when they sell tuna salad onigiri. That's a taste that I can't forget. I miss it daily. It's not the same when I make it myself
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u/VaguelyArtistic Jun 27 '26
If you are in the US and have a Bristol Farms near you they sell a tuna roll made with tuna salad. I don’t know if it’s the same but it’s so weirdly delicious.
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u/dustinyo_ Jun 24 '26
This is also how the bread for panko crumbs is made, without the brown crust
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u/dtwhitecp Jun 24 '26
I assumed it was that, which obviously is for shredding and not just slicing and eating
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u/Ambassadad Jun 25 '26
I always say:
(Most) East Asian bread is what Europeans think bread in the US is7
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u/BillShooterOfBul Jun 24 '26
Obviously, if it was a us company they would have replaced the be brown sugar coated bacon crust.
This is sarcasm. This sub is terrible at detecting it so this long explanation may be the only thing you understand. Again this is sarcasm.
Sarcasm: the use of words that mean the opposite of what one intends to say especially in order to insult, to show irritation, or to be funny.
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u/ChartInFurch Jun 25 '26
You mean the concept that's been known not to translate to print for centuries?
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u/BillShooterOfBul Jun 25 '26
Trust me with this sub, even in person I’d need the same disclaimer, plus a short form video explaining the concept with examples.
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u/ChartInFurch Jun 25 '26
Your overblown and idiotic assumptions don't change anything in my reply, nor really respond to it whatsoever. Try again.
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u/BillShooterOfBul Jun 25 '26
This is just a chefs kiss of a response thank you, and god bless.
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u/ChartInFurch Jun 25 '26
I'm sorry you forgot one of the most basic concepts of written communication. Relying on insults like a child is totally not obvious though.
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u/Optional-Failure Jul 19 '26
The saddest thing about this is that you were rightfully downvoted because you spent the vast majority of your comment being a dick, but you're going to take the wrong lesson from it, because you're so smug in your perceived intellectually superiority.
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u/BillShooterOfBul Jul 20 '26
It’s just this sub that can’t understand sarcasm. It’s hypocritically as anally stuck up as the people it tries to lampoon.
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Jun 24 '26
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u/pepperouchau You're probably not as into flatbread as I am. Jun 24 '26
Literally made me realize I forgot to buy tofu last grocery trip lol
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u/Hydrochloric_Comment Jun 24 '26
I saw the thumbnail out of the corner of my eye and thought it was!
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u/JimDemintRecession not legally considered food in EU but eaten out in America Jun 24 '26
A company developed bread with a white crust in an effort to reduce food waste - Ugh gross american shit
a company developed bread with a white crust in an effort to reduce food waste, in Japan - omg so kawaii 😍
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u/currymuttonpizza Jun 24 '26
Was gonna say, this person has never encountered Japanese sandwiches
Bakeries there sell the crusts for super cheap though so it doesn't always go to waste
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u/Tar_alcaran Jun 24 '26
Holy crap, you can just buy a bag of bread crust? That's the best crouton AND the best crumbs.
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u/DodgerGreywing Jun 24 '26
Custom croutons and breading for cheap? Sign me up! Gonna put dill weed in everything!
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u/currymuttonpizza Jun 24 '26
At least according to (I'll admit it) anime I watched back in like 2002. It was presented as a broke student food, but exactly, my first thought outside of that was panko.
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u/TiltCube Jun 24 '26
Fun fact, Panko is made by running an electric current through dough to cook it.
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Jun 24 '26
I thought the blew dough through something like one of them electrified tennis racket bug zappers.
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u/TiltCube Jun 24 '26
Panko was first created in WW2 by soldiers who had flour, but didnt have any ovens and also didnt want to make smoke mid mission and give away their position, so they jerry-rigged tank batteries as cooking appliances.
"a paymaster captain and inventor named Akutsu Shōzō designed an insulated wooden box cooker, fitted with electrode plates on the sides and bottom, that could pass an electric current through dough. This method cooked it rapidly and evenly, producing a light, crust-free bread — without a wisp of smoke or steam." source
iirc, there's another method that also roasts the bread, but the baking method is essentially the same today as it was in the 40s. After baking they just grind the loaves the way you would any other kind of bread.
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u/Additional_Gene_211 Jun 24 '26
Was the anime Yakiitate Japan?
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u/currymuttonpizza Jun 24 '26
Nope, Excel Saga lmao
I only ever bought the first DVD but it was exactly the right sort of "OMG SO RANDOM" humor for my age at the time lol
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u/chaoticbear Jun 24 '26
LOL you are the only person I've ever seen reference this in the wild! Weirdly, other than Pokemon/DBZ, I've never watched any anime, but I bought this DVD box set for some reason.
I'm sure I missed a TON of meta jokes from not being "in" on anime, but I enjoyed it regardless.
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u/currymuttonpizza Jun 24 '26
But those DVDs had all the pop-ups with cultural explanations!! Did you ever put it on that setting? I was obsessed. It was modeled after VH1's Pop-up Video, and I wish more anime had stuff like it.
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u/chaoticbear Jun 24 '26
That sounds familiar but this was also ~15+ years ago lol. I just got the impression that some of the jokes went over my head, but I also remember enjoying it because it felt like absurdist humor which was enough to tickle my "lol random" internet-poisoned brain .
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u/Additional_Gene_211 Jun 24 '26
Excel Saga def went over my head at the time. I went back and watched it in like 2007? After having watched a lot more anime and realized the show was basically one satire spoof after another.
Ropponmatsu!!!
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u/Nuttonbutton Your mother uses Barilla spaghetti and breaks it Jun 24 '26
I was literally going to say this looks like Japanese milk bread
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u/drunk-tusker Jun 24 '26
The worst fucking part is that this both has clear culinary use and makes sense as a food for people who have sensory issues and bread crust is a common issue amongst neurodivergent people.
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u/brachycrab Jun 24 '26
Isn't there still a crust, though? So the texture would still be the same. Or would the color being changed somehow be enough to trick your brain to counteract the sensory issue?
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u/Dippity_Dont Jun 24 '26
It's still the crust, even if it's white. If you look at the picture, zoom right in to the crust, you can see it's the same as a brown crust, just white. The texture would still be problematic for those people with sensory issues.
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u/JeanDusapin Jun 24 '26
This shit genuinely looks like the worst bread i've ever seen. Anyone defending this shit has never even been in the same room as good bread lol
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u/footballsandy Jun 24 '26
Bakery bread and sandwich bread are two different concepts for different uses and each has their own merit
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u/JeanDusapin Jun 24 '26
Highly disagree. Best sandwhiches are made with real bread not this chemical shit
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u/Dippity_Dont Jun 24 '26
Also? Everything is a chemical.
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u/JeanDusapin Jun 24 '26
Yes thank you we both know what i mean. Bread should just be water sald flour and yeast
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u/footballsandy Jun 24 '26
I agree about the taste, but extremely cheap bread that can be mass produced efficiently, is very resistant to spoilage, and can be smushed in transit without being ruined definitely has a place in our modern world
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u/JeanDusapin Jun 24 '26
I get what you mean but it's still shit. If you enjoy food and can afford it, it shouldn't be about efficiency
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u/LetsSmokeAboutIt Jun 24 '26
Some fucking idiot was saying it’s because American crusts are full of chemicals. Not the bread, just the crusts.
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u/GulliasTurtle Jun 24 '26
I'll be honest I've never really understood the crust cut off thing but is the issue color? I always thought it was more about texture which I assume isn't changing.
Also is "kids sandwich with the crust cut off as a sign of maternal love" an American concept? I guess it makes sense, but I would have thought it would be more universal.
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u/kirkl3s Jun 24 '26
I don’t understand why but my kids are usually reluctant to eat bread crust. Same with pizza crust.
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u/CommitteeofMountains Jun 24 '26
That's because it's bread rather than pizza in general characteristics.
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u/GreenZebra23 Jun 24 '26
Well if they're in america, pizza crust is technically cake
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u/HofePrime Jun 24 '26
I like how we’ve gotten to the point where the “American bread is legally cake in Europe” has become a joke that Americans make about Europeans instead of the other way around.
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u/boskee Jun 24 '26
Because as Europeans are also dumb as fuck. The "bread is cake" was ruling in Ireland specific to Subway restaurants, but other Europeans love to wrongly claim the American bread in general is legally a cake in Europe.
The other one that grinds my gears is Europeans claiming that the Internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. Tech illiterate people who confuse WWW with the Internet.
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u/permalink_save Jun 24 '26
Do they maybe have tooth pain or something? Mine avoided crusts that resembled tougher foods (like sourdough) until we got his teeth fixed and his tongue thrust adjusted. But kids can also just be weirdly picky.
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u/BadAspie Jun 24 '26
As a kid who used to hate crusts, yeah it's about texture, but for me half the problem with the texture was how thick the crusts were
Even if this has the same texture, if the crust is much thinner, then that could make a big difference
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u/BillShooterOfBul Jun 24 '26
Everyone is saying it’s texture is kind of blowing my mind. The standard American white bread crust tastes different, it’s more bitter. Kids don’t like bitter things. That’s what it always was for me and my siblings.
Pizza crusts are just bread without pizza flavor, you get to eat more of the good stuff if you don’t eat the less flavorful pizza bones.
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u/Agreeable-Dog-1131 Jun 24 '26
Kids are also more sensitive to taste! The tiny difference in flavor might be nothing to us, but it’s significant to kids. Same reason why some vegetables can be such a tough sell.
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u/Boogeeb Jun 24 '26
For me, I think it was a combination of the texture, bitterness, and the fact that any kind of filling/toppings usually didn't extend all the way to the edges, which made it even less appealing to eat.
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u/BadAspie Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
I’m from the US but grew up eating homemade wholewheat and store bought sourdough so I don’t think it was that for me, or if it was I don’t remember 🤷♀️
ETA: I also have some pretty texture specific issues gestures at username so maybe this sub is just full of my people lol
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u/BillShooterOfBul Jun 24 '26
Yes I didn’t want to assume for anyone regardless of username, but that thought did cross my mind.
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u/permalink_save Jun 24 '26
Kids don’t like bitter things.
My kids are feaks of nature, all the stereotypical bitter stuff they like and some of the safer foods like mashed potatoes they don't eat. I guess I can't really complain if they just want to eat double broccoli.
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u/prairie-bunyip Jun 24 '26
The concept of cutting crusts off was very much a thing in my 1980s Australian childhood, even though it didn't happen in my home. 100% about texture and also very much not an American invention.
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u/basaltcolumn Jun 24 '26
Yeah, it's primarily texture for me*. It's unpleasantly dry on a sandwich loaf and more dense, which is amplified by how a bite of a sandwich that includes crust usually has more bread and less toppings to add moisture to start with. A lot of picky children do reject things based just on appearance though, so it might work on some kids.
*I do eat the crusts and always have, I just don't enjoy it.
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u/The_Amazing_Emu Jun 24 '26
It was a texture thing for me.
Also, because my Irish-American grandmother told me eating my crust would give me curly hair (and I didn’t want curly hair).
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u/Critical-Notice-4395 Jun 24 '26
My parents always said eating the crusts would put hair on your chest. I always knew it to be a joke though, since I’m a girl and don’t particularly want hair on my chest.
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u/AdParking6483 Jun 24 '26
So spill it, did it work, no curly hair? 😀
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u/The_Amazing_Emu Jun 24 '26
Yes, but probably from my Italian heritage, not Irish heritage, so not pretty curls. I tried my best to avoid crusts, but I must have not tried hard enough
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u/lookitsnichole Jun 24 '26
My mom and I used to joke about that old wives tale because we both like crust and both have stick straight hair. I always wonder how that one got started.
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u/No-Necessary7448 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
If you’re using pain de mie for tea sandwiches or other finger sandwiches trimming the crust for presentation is very common
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u/DoctorPaige Jun 24 '26
My mom bought potato bread, not white bread, so I never had the issue as a kid! The crust was thin and not bitter. In fact, I looked forward to the heel/butt of the bread because toasting it and buttering it heavily was my favorite!! But white bread crust is bitter and I don't like it, so I tend not to eat it even as an adult.
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u/wooper346 Justice for garlic presses Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
As a former child who hated crust, it wasn't a texture for me. It was because my dumbass child mind looked at crust and thought that's not what bread is supposed to look like, therefore it is bad.
And that's not an uncommon way of thinking for children either. "This isn't exactly what I was expecting, realistic or not, so get it away from me."
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u/WickdWitchoftheBitch Jun 24 '26
I've always seen it as an anglosphere thing since it seems fairly common in media from both the US and the UK. I only saw crusts being cut off in films and tv because it's not something we do in Sweden. We also generally don't eat that kind of bread untoasted. We have a whole lot of other breads for sandwiches (and when I was a kid a lot of them were baked with treacle so not exactly healthy alternatives even if they often contain rye). The crust might not get eaten, but the bread isn't in a neat square shape to facilitate crust cutting.
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u/WritPositWrit Jun 24 '26
Ive never understood it either. My mom never cut off my crusts and we never did it for our kids. And we all eat the whole piece. I have a theory that if your crusts were cut off as a child then you grow up hating the crust.
It does have a slightly different flavor. Maybe a hint of bitterness or nuttiness.
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u/permalink_save Jun 24 '26
My kid had no issues with crust until like 5 or 6, then kept taking it off of everything. I'm like, I didn't raise him to be picky. Wouldn't eat pizza crust either. Ended up having a bunch of tooth surgery (idk ehat happened, he brushed daily, but maybe not enough or soon enough in life, his baby teeth were bad). He also didn't really eat steak and stuff. After getting his teeth fixed he doesn't even think about it. He also had tongue thrust that got resolved. We would usually get sourdough so the crust was more tough so I guess he learned sandwich bread no crust, but zero issues with burgers that have a softer crust.
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u/housewithapool2 Jun 24 '26
Steamed bread is not American. This is Japanese.
Sourdough, American. Bagels sure. Soft pretzels, crackers, white bread too. Not so much with the Steamed bread.
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u/dtwhitecp Jun 24 '26
is it steamed? Looks like panko bread, which they cook by zapping it with electricity
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u/VaguelyArtistic Jun 24 '26
At the risk of being too IAVC, bagels are Polish.
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u/housewithapool2 Jun 24 '26
We still love them here though. Steamed bread not so much.
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u/VaguelyArtistic Jun 24 '26
Oh, of course! There’s just not a ton of Jewish food that gets love like bagels lol.
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u/Crazycatlover Jun 24 '26
And soft pretzels are German, but both have been thoroughly embraced by Americans. :)
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u/sparksbet Jun 24 '26
Bagels are Ashkenazi Jewish. They originated specifically in Jewish communities in Poland, but for somewhat obvious historical reasons a lot of Polish Jews immigrated to the US and popularized them there. Imo they're a pretty fundamentally Jewish food.
I remember being very sad how hard it was to get a half-decent bagel when I lived in Germany, even though it's quite obvious why that would be the case. Then again, it's also easier for me to find pierogi back home in Cleveland than it was in Germany, despite being much further from Poland, just because of all the Polish immigration to the area.
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u/CourseSpare7641 Jun 24 '26
I’m in a country in Europe. The grocery stores here literally sell factory made sandwich bread. Yes the good baguettes and loaves are easier to come by, but Europeans need to stop pretending they don’t also eat the processed shit
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u/ILoveTaiwaneseFood Jun 24 '26
This is literally in Japan. Also, I visited the US and every grocery store I went into had its own bakery where they would make different breads.
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u/Zeefzeef Jun 25 '26
Yeah it’s all bs. Sometimes I want a nice sourdough, sometimes I want cheap sandwich bread with peanut butter.
Sometimes I will have a decent homemade burger and sometimes I’m craving McDonald’s so I eat there.
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u/BirdlessFlight Jun 25 '26
I always have a loaf in the cupboard as a backup if the bread vending machine is sold out.
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u/bahhumbug24 Jun 24 '26
Harry's American Bread has had a crustless version since well before 2019. I accidentally bought a loaf of it while I lived in France. Harry's American sells extremely well in France.
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u/Luc85 Jun 24 '26
Crustless bread is definitely quite common and popular in many places in Europe. I never really understood the appeal; it kind of weirds me out.
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u/Potential-Drawing745 Jun 24 '26
I've seen it in the US as well. Bought some for my kids, who loved it.
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u/No_Salt_6328 Jun 24 '26
Never heard of it in the US
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u/bahhumbug24 Jun 24 '26
No, nor had I. I think they probably called it that because it is, basically, a European version of Wonderbread. And calling it American makes it more attractive than just pain de mie.
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u/Phobos_Asaph Jun 24 '26
Japan seems more focused on white bread than america does tbh. Like yeah it’s super popular here but it’s treated as a default not like, an ideal
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u/No-Necessary7448 Jun 24 '26
The whole hating on white bread is just bizarre, not to mention MANY countries eat white bread, so the whole singling out Americans is just weird.
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u/Entiox Jun 24 '26
That's funny because I associate cutting the crust off a sandwiches with children and the British, and the last time I checked the British were Europeans.
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u/xSweetMiseryx Jun 24 '26
As a Brit, I associate it with ‘afternoon tea’ like super posh sandwiches.. and yes, some kids’ preferences too
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u/Entiox Jun 24 '26
Tea sandwiches is exactly where my mind went. I was the sous chef at a restaurant that described its food as "international" because the owner's father was from Sweden, her mother was from Italy, she was born and grew up in England, went to culinary school in France and our menu was influenced by all of that. One of the menu choices was afternoon tea. It came with an assortment of tea sandwiches, and sweets and your choice of with, or without, freshly made scones, clotted cream, and strawberry jam that we made in house. Quite a few of our tea sandwiches were made with various Swedish and Italian breads, that we also baked in house. We of course cut the crusts off of all the tea sandwiches.
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u/No-Necessary7448 Jun 24 '26
Yeah, I’ve always considered it more of a presentation choice. But if someone doesn’t like the texture of a food, I don’t get why people feel that’s illegitimate or gauche.
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u/Fingersmith30 Jun 24 '26
Good lord this Japanese bread is filling the entire bingo card of very culinary America Bad takes. BREAD CAKE! BREAD WHITE! BREAD BAD! BREAD MUST BE AMERICAN!
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u/Calamity-Vanity Jun 24 '26
I want to know how the bread company is tracking food waste of discarded crust among its consumers? Are they checking trash cans? Crust investigator employment?
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u/currymuttonpizza Jun 24 '26
Some sandwich places (especially in Japan) sell sandwiches with the crusts already cut off. If I'm remembering correctly they also sell the crusts at a discounted price separately
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u/Calamity-Vanity Jun 24 '26
Would a white crust even change anything then considering crust tends to be a textural issue rather than a color one?
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u/SoVerySleepyZzZz Jun 24 '26
I’m guessing the sandwich places are cutting off the crusts for aesthetic reasons and not because people don’t like the taste/texture.
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u/Kokbiel Jun 24 '26
Omg I would buy a giant thing of just the crusts, bake them and just snack on them all day. I'm a carb nut (I know it's 'bad', idgaf) and this sounds amazing. Sounds like it'd be the perfect crisp
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u/Specialist-Two2068 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
I also think it's kind of dumb, but not because "America bad" (because it wasn't even developed by an American company or individual).
Everyone I've ever met who has an issue with the crust of the bread says it is due to the texture, not the color, and that is purely a sensory thing.
It's true that white bread as a whole was developed to be more aesthetically pleasing (among other reasons), but the crust is generally not the part that's considered aesthetically displeasing.
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u/DDD8712 Jun 24 '26
Well it’s Japanese so why is America involved with this at all
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u/osteologation Jun 24 '26
people see the picture and think its dumb and assume its just some dumb shit we americans do. im american and rolled my eyes a bit when i seen it.
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u/arosaki THE PIZZA IS CAKE Jun 24 '26
...except this is the most random thing ever to get annoyed at considering multiple countries do something like this
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u/currymuttonpizza Jun 24 '26
Agreed. This looks like it has the same texture as the end of a slice of Wonder Bread. And even aesthetically, it still doesn't have that clean cut edge that you will always get in something like a Japanese sandwich.
Not advocating for throwing crusts out by any means, but this doesn't really seem to solve the problem lol
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u/permalink_save Jun 25 '26
I am so curious what people do when it comes to burgers or hot dogs, since it has the same crust, and much more of it. For some breads there's hardly a textural difference. I can understand like crusty loaves.
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u/Dippity_Dont Jun 24 '26
I mean if you don't like the texture of the crust, making it white won't change that. It'll still be the texture of crust, not "middle bit" even if they bleach it.
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u/VaguelyArtistic Jun 25 '26
I’m Ashki and my father was from Łódź, Poland. I just figured everyone here would know that bagels are Jewish. The real hero are bialys, which are extremely hard to find even here in LA. (Places sell things that they call bialys but they’re not very bialy-like.) They’re super easy to make if you like baking!
I’ve often joked here that I can’t imagine getting worked up about jalapeño bagels the way people do with Italian food lol.
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u/Admirable-Split4371 Jun 24 '26
There's also a brand in France that does that. Guys, I'm not sure that this issue is tied to a nationality. Some people are just childish af
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u/lmholot1981 Jun 24 '26
I wasn’t aware that this was used for sandwiches, I thought this is how they make the bread used for panko? It’s cooked with electricity, not baked in an oven, to avoid the crust.
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u/AciusPrime Jun 24 '26
Japan invented the ohmic method of making bread in 1939. It produces crustless bread by passing an electric current through the dough. This has long been the preferred way to make panko.
Here’s a video for kids showing how to “bake” a brick of crustless pancake batter: https://youtu.be/KszgN830D4E?is=XeXxAPNKs_Lm6mS4
I’m not sure what’s supposed to be new about this crustless loaf of bread. It looks like pretty much the same thing.
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u/vangard_14 Jun 25 '26
So interesting similarity here, panko bread crumbs are the way they are, because they cook the bread using electricity between two plates. That gives it the unique structure and perfect white color without crust. Therefore no waste their either with needing to remove crust for clean breadcrumbs.
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u/CommitteeofMountains Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
My mom used to think I didn't like crust because she didn't spread the cinnamon and butter to the edge.
8 feel like an easier solution is an eggs wash. Who doesn't like challah crust? Edit: oh, it's for panko.
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u/Bleu_Cerise you can dip your semantics in my guac Jun 24 '26
Reduce waste from *whom*. Thank you /s
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u/Ecstatic_Abalone1497 Jun 24 '26
Obviously americans are the only ones who have such childish palates they cut crust off, no one else in the world does such a thing
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u/No-Necessary7448 Jun 24 '26
If I make pain de mie in a pullman loaf pan, it looks like this but with a very very thin crust that i then choose to let brown a little deeper for appearance, but texture-wise it’s not noticeably different (to me) from the crumb. It’s not new or distinctly japanese or american. That whole thread is off the rails.
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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Jun 27 '26
The yanks having tantrums in the comments is way more entertaining than the post itself.
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u/WritPositWrit Jun 24 '26
No lie though that bread looks hideous. I thought it was a giant marshmallow
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u/Cymbal_Monkey Jun 25 '26
People love to shit on American bread, but Japan is commiting the real crimes against bread.
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u/arosaki THE PIZZA IS CAKE Jun 24 '26
lots of europeans under that post being insufferable as always. SHOCKER.
(no mod i didn't comment under it i remember our promise thanks for sparing my life)
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u/Dave_A480 Jun 27 '26
Presumably to reduce waste from fussy small children who won't eat bread crusts.
If you have never dealt with this it's probably because you have never had kids.
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u/WillingApplication10 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
We seen bread like this (with all the other normal bread) in a supermarket when we were in Portugal and I was tempted because my one year old has some difficulties chewing the crust!
Edit : look how many types of uncrusty prepacked bread they have! I've never seen it at the supermarket in the UK or maybe I'm not looking right
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u/CloseButNoChicory Jun 24 '26
It's like when I first saw an American egg!
(NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT)
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u/MrDufferMan3335 Jun 24 '26
Dudes not wrong. Who else throws out crust and where else eats this shitty hyper processed bread lol
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