Wonder if this shift corresponds to the age of automobiles

  • @DragonTypeWyvern
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    85 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.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      15 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 …