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PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Buuuttt… You more or less did say that. This is what you said - “Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though”
  
  And Haha no worries my man, I simply had the time. The thing is… regular supermarket bread in your area does have added sugar. That is the point. It is not region dependant. It does in northern Germany, it does in southern Germany, east and west. It does in your bio-markt, it does in Aldi, it does at netto, it does at rewe. The common default is added sugar in one variety or another. It is rare, so rare it is much harder to find an exception to that rule. Grocery stores almost all have mass produced bread - mass produced bread has added sugar for a lot of good reasons.
  
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  - taxiiiii@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The “regular” ist key here. I checked my local breads, saw no added sugar, saw some sweet breads with sugar, concluded that regular bread usually doesn’t contain sugar. Asked you to disprove the claim with examples, because I got curious. That’s not claiming all breads contain no sugar. That’s your interpretation, not my intended meaning.
    
    I can also tell you why I concluded that: because I didnt count Gerstenmalz-extrakt as sugar. I didn’t even know it was sweet. I searched for sugar in the ingredients and couldn’t find any. So now I learned something new, which is that this stuff is sweet, even if it isn’t pure sugar. Also that our breads, even if they usually taste less sweet than in other countries I’ve been to, have added sweet stuff. Good to know.
    
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