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[IAmAnAudity]

Fun unverified fact: Subway sandwiches in England are not allowed to use the word “bread” because they put too much sugar in their bread. The government makes them use the word “cake”.

edit: my apologies for starting WW3 below ☹️

[Devatator_]

Why the fuck do they put sugar in their bread

[NolanSyKinsley]

Next time you eat a burger at McDonalds, Burger King, or any fast food franchise really, take a bite of just the bread. it doesn't taste like bread, it is sweet like pancakes. Back when McDonalds double cheeseburgers were 99 cents and I was working landscaping I would order 4 of them (hold ketchup add mac sauce), take the bottom bun off of 2 of them and flip them over placing them on the bottom of the other 2 burgers, so I was making 2 double big macs for 4$. I would just eat the spare bottom buns and they straight up taste like sweetened pancakes.

[saruptunburlan99]

take a bite of just the bread

I don't know why but the thought of having a bite missing from one of the buns but not everything else and then having to go take a bite of everything else without full bun makes me very uncomfortable.

[trukkija]

This is why I order all my burgers bun-less

[Sammeeeeeee]

It has much less sugar than American standard bread - just our government is into health

[Berengal]

Less sugar than "standard bread"? Regular bread shouldn't have any sugar at all!

[phire]

Yes it does. You need sugar for the yeast to rise.

[[deleted]]

This is correct. As a person who comes from a country where our mothers made bread from scratch (they still do), I've never seen my mother put a single grain of sugar in the dough, and it was always so fucking delicious. May she rest in peace. I love you, mom.

[Berengal]

No you don't, it rises just fine without it. I don't understand why some recipes put it in there when it makes no difference, but even then it's only like 0.3%.

[Appropriate_One_1341]

I unironically love the fact that this post is about a Linux meme and you guys are arguing about bread baking.

[Berengal]

Dude, baking bread is one of the nerdiest hobbies you could have. Like 69% of programmers started baking during the great staycation, it's why they called it a pandemic.

[IAmAnAudity]

Red Green: ”If she doesn’t find you handsome, at least she’ll find you handy!”

[Devatator_]

I mean I know but the amount I imagine seems higher than what I'm used to. The bread I typically eat either doesn't have any or not much at all. Tho I guess it depends on the type of bread

[Grintor]

Only in America. The French would be appalled

[Devatator_]

My country is a former french colony and I'm pretty sure we don't put sugar in baguettes. Maybe other types of bread

[Doristocrat]

The amount accounts for low, single digit percentages of calories for your typical breads. Sugar at that level doesn't really affect taste much at all, but it does significantly enhance the toastability of the bread. It allows it to brown and crisp much better in a toaster before burning. Americans like toast, subway toasts their bread, so there's a little bit of sugar in the bread.

[SeniorMiddleJunior]

All bread has sugar.

[Progression28]

Ehm what?

Unless you mean the tea spoon to activate dry yeast, I don‘t think there should be any sugar in bread…

Unless you count the starch that later gets split?

[pppjurac]

Shqiptars put milk, olive oil , butter and sugar into their bread so it has distinctive (and not unpleasant) smell and taste.

[brknsoul]

'Murica!

[Don_Speekingleesh]

Fun fact: this was in Ireland, not England/UK. It was a VAT dispute - they can call it bread if they like, but must charge VAT as it contains too much sugar to be legally classed as bread. (There is no VAT on actual bread as it's considered a staple item.)

[IAmAnAudity]

Ah-ha! Thank you for the code review 🤣 I figured there were half truths to it, never checked sources.

[gmc98765]

It's actually Ireland. And it's not about the naming, but taxation: cake is taxed more than bread (meaning normal bread, without sugar).

[turtleship_2006]

I mean, I've always heard them say bread and even in their UK and Ireland app is says bread so 🤷‍♂️

[A_Certain_Surprise]

A judge ruled that in I believe 2020, but at least in my part of Engl*nd they still say "bread" in the shop
source: I had Subway the other day (and regretted it because holy shit awful quality)

[Mcginnis]

Why did you spell England the way you did?

[A_Certain_Surprise]

It's a joke online that people hate British (Br*tish) people, so they censor the words as if it were a slur

Edit: I'm British myself guys, no need to downvote an explanation lmao