Comment on America is fucked

• PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Germany is better than most places, but it happens here too. It could be one of those things you only notice when you’re looking for it.

  I’ve never seen someone open carry a gun in the US but when you listen to people it sounds like everyone does.

  I was a my friends WG (group apartment) and her roommate just got back from the US. She was shocked that the Americans even put sugar in their bread. Something something it’s why they are all fat and unhealthy. I was curious, so got all of the german bread there… And you know what? It all had a higher sugar content than the American bread example.

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  • taxiiiii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though? I just looked it up for the supermarkets in my area, so I’m sure I’m not spouting bullshit.

    Genuine question, what bread did you look at?

    There are varieties with sugar, but it’s not the norm.

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    • PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But serious question. Do I need to go on? “Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though” - so you say - or does it? Which is exactly the point I was making about the ambulance. Ambulances never get blocked in Germany, just as german bread does not have added sugar. Both are of course wrong.

      Really. I can give you 1,000 other examples of where it has added sugar. I can also give you examples of german bread that have double or tripple higher added sugar then other countries typical bread.

      You are correct that many counties like Japan, or Sweden, or the US add sugar to their bread, but you would also be wrong to assume that it doesn’t happen in your country. Cause it happens in every country. Want to know how I know? I’ve professionally baked bread in Germany and the US.

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      • taxiiiii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dude, I never said no bread in Germany contains sugar. Regular supermarket bread in my area mostly doesn’t. I’m not sure what got you annoyed enough about an innocent question to turn this into a three comment answer? I wasnt trying to be snarky.

        That’s the thing with stereotypes, it’s not about saying all people or all things are like this, it’s a about tendencies. Some people play those up for humor. Anyone who then seriously claims that “everyone/everything from country x is like that” is an idiot of course. I didn’t do that though.

        Thanks for giving me examples, it’s good to know that the sugar content of storebought bread is that different according to region.

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    • PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which one did I look at? No idea. That was 4 years ago at someone’s house. But here are some examples. Merzenich are the most common bakeries around me.

      Their bauernhandbrötchen have 2,6g sugar per 100g. Their main sugar that they are adding is malted barely. But they also add beet sugar and grape sugar. Malted barley is sugar syurp. baeckerei-merzenich.de WEIZENMEHL 43 %, Wasser, ROGGEN MEHL 7 %, ROGGENMALZFLOCKEN 4 %, GERSTENMALZEXTRAKT, Zucker, Traubenzucker, Malzmehl (GERSTE, WEIZEN), WEIZENGRIESS, Rapsöl, Salz, BUTTERMILCHPULVER, Hefe

      Here is another kamps village bread 1.6g sugar kamps.de/produkte/brot-kamps-dorfbrot

      Or another at 2.6g sugar kamps.de/produkte/brot-kamps-eck

      Here is a sliced bread variety at 1.5 G that I see at rewe harry-brot.de/…/sammy-s-super-sandwich-das-origin…

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      • PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not trying to cherry pick out examples. Literally the first thing I find that is bread

        Backwerk kaiserbrötchen 2.6g sugar, their pretzel 3.4g sugar www.back-werk.de/de/sortiment/kaiserbrotchen-622?…

        It doesn’t get more typical for me than german pumpernickel, with a whopping 6.7g sugar coming from sugar beets and malted barley syurp www.knuspr.de/6236-alnatura-bio-pumpernickel?gad_…

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  • JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What bread are you eating? Another example I can’t relate to at all. I usually bake my own bread, sometimes I buy. Never had sugar in it. Maybe you were looking at Brioche or something? I consider that more of a sweet like cake or muffins.

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    • PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is not the bread I was eating, it is the bread they had at home. Nearly all commercial bread has sugar added to it. Nearly all german bread bought at german bakeries have a sugar content. Typical content is between .06 and 1.5g. Go to a grocery store and flip over a bread package. Go to one of the bakery chains and look at their nutrition facts.

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