America...your bread sucks.

[Luke and Deanna 0]

I can very much understand.

I was brought up with fresh bread. I usually would buy local baked bread unsliced so you can make it as thick or thin as you like. My Nana would always have Warbingtons Toastie (the orange one) and her toast is the best.

I sometimes would buy Tesco Irish Soda bread and have it with soup or they also did a Mediterranean bread that was amazing. I have managed to find one ok crunchy bread at Walmart, but it's not the same.

If anybody from the UK is looking for Red Leicester cheese, Costco sell it under a brand called Kerry Gold. Very nice indeed.

They even managed to ruin Cadburys, very thin and not the same as in the UK. Dove is the same as Galaxy if anyone misses that.

Ahh well, I think I am going to start making my own bread as nothing beads home made.

Luke

[Jenn! 918]

Don't most grocery stores have bakeries w/ fresh baked Italian, French, etc. breads? I've never had to buy "American" bread in a bag. Though I do believe that PB&J is best on plain old Wonder bread.

[mrs. wife! 3]

Oh God, tell me about it!!!!!

In Brazil everywhere you go there is a bakery on the corner!! And they sell fresh french bread!!

They make early in the morning, after lunch and again in early evening! So goooooood!!!

I found french bread at Giant one time but it was old and I guess they only make it once a day. So when you go buy it it's old and rubbery

Then we found a frozen bag of french bread at the frozen section but it's so heavy that my stomach hurts!!!

I love everything else, but really.... the bread sucks!!!

[Joseph and Tsion 0]

Why America, why? Your bread tastes like cake and lasts a ridiculously long time in my cupboard without going green. Lots of my food time is spent dreaming of white bread cheese sandwiches or white bread bacon butties with butter and HP sauce. Warburtons blue packet usually. I spend wasteful dollars on all these different kinds hoping one will taste normal. I don't fall for your 12/8/6 grain, wholewheat, bran nonsense anymore because I know they all taste of sugar and ruin my toast and sandwich experience. The list of ingredients are enough to send the health board into a spin.

It's not normal and it hurts.

JoJo - a bread lover from the UK.

Go to the bakery

[Sc0tt28 26]

And don't get me started on American cheese . . . (ok, that is another thread, hehehe!)

My wife (the foreigner - Canadian) has the same issue with the bread but our Tillamook Cheese (Tillamook, OR) is excellent.

[Gemmie 142]

I keep trying to tell my husband and he just tells me that I'm turning into one of "those" people that check the ingredients of everything and worrying about the nutrients, etc.

I'm not... I just don't like my food packed full of sugar and corn syrup! The bread tastes like cake which is weird when put with meats and spreads that just aren't sweet. The baked beans are full of sugars and CS, the oatmeal is full of flavours, the chocolate is full of wax (I was horrified when Kraft bought Cadbury). And you know what, now I know why me and my husband had so many problems in the UK when it came to bread. He kept telling me I wasn't sealing it properly and that British bread is weird because it goes off so quickly. Now I know why. Because it's not full of #######.

And I swear they have it backwards with the cheese. It's so bland and rubbery. I have to pay a lot of money to get some mature cheese that is close to the cheese back home. I saw a commercial the other day advertising American cheese with "made with milk, not oil".... OIL? Now I can always tell when places use American cheese just from the texture and odd taste.

Imagine my surprise when I opened the fridge to find a bottle of Pepsi today with "made with REAL SUGAR - limited edition" written on the label. I asked why it was limited edition, and was told it wasn't made with CS.

I'm going to England in 2 weeks.... I WILL EAT.

[ErikaAndHamit 73]

Ha ha...seriously

[m_ru 0]

I agree with all of You

bread and cheese!!!!!

Try Trader Joe's, not ideal but always something You can eat and not vomit;-P

ps.we make our bread too

[Christi and Ian 24]

Not just the bread, but the cheese here stinks too! I had no idea, until I went to the U.K. to visit hubby a few weeks ago, what good cheese really was...

[leith@Ievgeniia 8]

local bakeries you will find real bread, no mater where you live there are small indipandent bakeries making artison breads and REAL baggetts!!!

i agree i like a harder bread myself but people bake to tastes of the masses!! to sell.. so try to find somebody in your area with types of breads you like.

neet topic though!!!

[Lars-N-Yenia 8]

i learned something when i hit my 40's...ALL bread suks...

[Y&E 12]

I agree about the bread! Every time I go there I have to try and convert fiance to the idea that not all bread should be white and taste of sugar! I think that I will be spending Sundays making bread when I am there! I will also be starting a vege garden if I can as I don't trust them not to have filled all the good things with pesticides and additives that could do crazy things to our bodies!

I was also forced to try this nasty stuff that came in a tin called Chicken and Dumplings. The most horrific thing that I have ever had cause to ingest. I would not recommend it!

[SabrinaFrance 8]

I keep trying to tell my husband and he just tells me that I'm turning into one of "those" people that check the ingredients of everything and worrying about the nutrients, etc.

I'm not... I just don't like my food packed full of sugar and corn syrup! The bread tastes like cake which is weird when put with meats and spreads that just aren't sweet. The baked beans are full of sugars and CS, the oatmeal is full of flavours, the chocolate is full of wax (I was horrified when Kraft bought Cadbury). And you know what, now I know why me and my husband had so many problems in the UK when it came to bread. He kept telling me I wasn't sealing it properly and that British bread is weird because it goes off so quickly. Now I know why. Because it's not full of #######.

And I swear they have it backwards with the cheese. It's so bland and rubbery. I have to pay a lot of money to get some mature cheese that is close to the cheese back home. I saw a commercial the other day advertising American cheese with "made with milk, not oil".... OIL? Now I can always tell when places use American cheese just from the texture and odd taste.

Imagine my surprise when I opened the fridge to find a bottle of Pepsi today with "made with REAL SUGAR - limited edition" written on the label. I asked why it was limited edition, and was told it wasn't made with CS.

I'm going to England in 2 weeks.... I WILL EAT.

Oh god, cheese and bread, my 2 favorite things in life! (ok now I need to start including my future husband in this list...)! I am gonna die there!

What upsets me the most is when they sell "French bread", because it is everything but French! they dont get the concept of the crusty outside and soft inside. With French American baguette it is all soft and tasteless! BAH

[K and L 27]

Now that's just a sign of a bad bakery, Sabrina! I spent a semester studying abroad in France as an undergraduate and remember very well what the breads in France tasted like -- and the better bakeries *do* make a closer approximation to French-style bread. A crappy bakery just shapes their bread as a baguette & cooks it like normal and calls it a baguette, but good ones will do it better. In my experience, it's not quite the same - I find that they don't quite get the overall chewiness that baguettes had in France, but it's closer and will have the crusty crust and the soft insides.

Mrs. Silverman - tell me about it! The flat we rented in Recife was about 0,2km from a fabulous bakery, and we'd start the day by wandering down for bread. There's nothing like freshly baked bread. Here, I have to go downtown to get to the only bakery that makes decent bread fresh throughout the day. (Fortunately for me, I pass by daily on my way to Portuguese class, so it's not out of my way to grab the bread. It's about 1,2km from where I work, though.)

[Bernie C 24]

You have some very valid comments, however I have a hard time believing that in a large market as where you are you cannot find a nice mom and pop bakery that makes delicious bread and pasteries void of all the garbage of mass production.

My fiancee has onle been here for 4 days and she has commented that she is so happy that the bread at our local market is CLEAN and PROTECTED from the scrounging fingers of all those who want to squeeze it the put it back for someone else to try. While the mass produced I agree is not so tasty as the breads I have had the pleasure of trying in my travels, the fresh home made from our market is rather DELICIOUS.

Keep looking. On the other side, think of the enjoyment you will have when you visit the homeland and devore all the breads your belly can handle!!!