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Greed. There's no simpler explanation. It starts with trying to find bread-like material that tastes even better. You can do so by adding sugar. You want it

Greed. There's no simpler explanation. It starts with trying to find bread-like material that tastes even better. You can do so by adding sugar. You want it to last even longer on the shelves so you make it non-perishable with chemicals that weren't previously used in food that are just grandfathered as "safe" to appease industry. Thus you get US Bread.

nickik 7y ago
That assumes that people in the US are greedy and not in other places. I think one can are that every other place had some sort of efficient mechanism to stop that greed. If the US is the outlier the question should be what condition that are US specific made it happen, not a general concept like greed.
- SerLava 7y ago
  Long distances and shipping times, the lack of a coherent food culture, the demand for cheap food, the destruction of culinary standards between 1930 and 1960.
  - nickik 7y ago
    Bread is bad even in many places where shipping is not a problem. The lack of coherent food culture I have considered and it might make sense and it would explain why the US is a special case. Demand for cheap food exists everywhere. Not sure how culinary standards got worse, depending on what standards you are talking about. Many things got better in most food groups.
    - SerLava 7y ago
      After the depression and the war, we started eating a lot of frozen dinners and other cheap crap. That meant an entire generation just didn't know how to cook anything but subsistence foods.