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What's the deal with bread in the US (feddit.nl)

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I had a bit of a discussion with someone on Reddit a while ago about American bread. They claimed decent bread was available in almost every bakery section of every grocery store. All American bread I remember was full of sugar and preservatives, not just the wonder bread type, but also everything else. Since my memory could be wrong, or one-sided, or perhaps things have changed, I left it at that.

Now I've been in the U.S. for over a week and visited at least one grocery store per day (we don't have reliable access to a fridge so we buy fresh stuff daily). I just cannot find anything close to the fresh bakery section in a Dutch supermarket. And compared to other European countries that isn't even a particularly high bar.

What I find is either to way too sweet and fluffy/cakey, and nothing even close to the mediocre pre-sliced bread back home. What am I doing wrong?

I've tried Aldi, Walmart and a few local(?) chains.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't really find anything to write home about, but I was also just there for only a couple of weeks. I've been back in Europe for almost a week now and I've been eating loads of bread.

Admittedly I could have tried a smaller bakery but I checked once or twice and there weren't any near me.