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Europe has plenty of 'sweet bread' with sugar in similar quantities. I don't begrudge resistance to industrial 'bread products' but this is just a performative
by wavefunction 6y ago
Europe has plenty of 'sweet bread' with sugar in similar quantities. I don't begrudge resistance to industrial 'bread products' but this is just a performative headline.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoThat sweet bread would be speciality bread, one wouldn't eat it every day and use it for regular sandwiches.
- wavefunction 6y agoI don't know anyone that would eat Subway every day. The point is that the sugar content of Subway 'bread products' is not sufficient to call it bread and I pointed out the facts.
- sjwright 6y agoSubway advertising explicitly or implicitly describes its food as being healthy, not an occasional treat. (Edit: receiving down-votes and I'm curious to know what's controversial about the above. Perhaps Subway is advertised differently in your country? Would be interesting to know.)
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- arcticbull 6y agoThe issue is precisely that Subway is positioning themselves as a health-conscious brand, and the sandwiches are frequently consumed daily by the office worker crowd without cafeteria access. If they were promoting it as a brioche sandwich, that'd be one thing.
- foolfoolz 6y agohealth means different things to different people. there is not one size all to healthy. a lot of people equate healthy to calorie count, not just grams of sugar. subway has good food for calories. i think some of their items do qualify as a health conscious sandwich
- arcticbull 6y agoSugar content is often far more relevant. Sugar is not good for humans.
- dexterdog 6y agoEating Subway everyday is exactly what they market or at least used to with pedo Jared.
- sjwright 6y agoWhat’s wrong with a country exempting plain bread from sales tax but not exempting baked sugary treats?
- sk5t 6y agoI'd like to see Subway start selling a sandwich built on a foundation of Zöpf. Without raisins just to start.
- zeckalpha 6y agoThat phrase means something else: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread
- antonvs 6y ago"Sweet bread" and "sweetbread" are two different things. Yay English.
- untog 6y agoEurope has plenty of industrial bread products that do not taste anywhere near as sweet as US bread. It was something that really threw me when I arrived here, that if I went to a supermarket and bought any old loaf of bread it would taste distinctly sweet. Just a matter of taste, and as others have pointed out it's not difficult to get a non-sweet loaf (sourdough, etc) it's just not the standard.
- burmanm 6y agoSaying bread tastes like something in Europe is simply weird. Each European country has their own bread types usually and they have next to nothing in common. For example, while rye bread might taste sweet, it's not because of added sugar (for example, only certain types of Finnish rye breads have syrup added to them, but most do not). The sweetness comes naturally from the rye when it's processed for enough long time. Just like the sourness.
- foepys 6y agoEuropean countries vary vastly in regards to bread. German bread is not comparable to what the Dutch or French call bread. I might biased as a German, though.
- ascorbic 6y agoYes, and they don't qualify for zero-rate VAT either.