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The more you learn about something the less complex it gets. People say things like this that don’t have a clue about baking. No, for the most part it is not true at all.

As someone without foreskin I never thought about this.

Country dependant. Some places it’s highly common some with up to 50/50 split, where I am 2% pay out to the kitchen is typical / required, other places it is illegal as management to even ask the server to split tips.

I’ve worked as a chef many places.

I had the same thought. Wallow Whitman National forest? North Matthieu Lake?

What was your guess?

Don’t. Just don’t. Trust me there are things you can’t unsee.

Don’t.

Yes. Thank you. When I was a bee keeper I learned some about the things. Do honey bees have various issues and struggles … Sure. Are the large varieties of native wild bees soooo much more fucked - yep. Yes they are.

Tuna was not always popular and when people didn’t know what it was it helped people know what they are buying. The US also having a large portion of bilingual people with a Spanish base, this helps it not get confused with cactus fruit (apparently tuna in Spanish)

Why is it soooo tempting to do?! Everytime I see one that voice in the back of my head says to take it… They won’t notice…

Wait a minute now… What if that is not cow milk but a milk alternative? Oatmilk, rice milk or almond milk. Could a alternative milk not be a broth?

Has anyone else ever had this happen? Is this just a joke made for clicks and likes? I saw this many years ago (and likely this exact one as it’s from 2019) and I thought this isn’t a thing. My thought now, this isn’t a thing.

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.

But serious question @taxiiiii. 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.

Bread from rewe. 2.8g sugar. Coming from caramelized sugar and a inverted sugar syurp. https://shop.rewe.de/p/gab-weltmeisterbrot-mehrkorn-750g/2306462

Farmers crust 2,6g sugar http://sortiment.heberer.de/de/home/i/50001178 Roggenbrot 2.6g sugar http://sortiment.heberer.de/de/home/i/50001154

Do I need to go on?

I’m not trying to cherry pick out examples. Literally the first thing I find that is bread

Backwerk kaiserbrötchen 2.6g sugar, their pretzel 3.4g sugar https://www.back-werk.de/de/sortiment/kaiserbrotchen-622?lang=de

It doesn’t get more typical for me than german pumpernickel, with a whopping 6.7g sugar coming from sugar beets and malted barley syurp https://www.knuspr.de/6236-alnatura-bio-pumpernickel?gad_source=1

Which one did I look at? No idea. That was 4 years ago at someone’s house. But here are some examples. Merzenich are the most common bakeries around me.

Their bauernhandbrötchen have 2,6g sugar per 100g. Their main sugar that they are adding is malted barely. But they also add beet sugar and grape sugar. Malted barley is sugar syurp. https://baeckerei-merzenich.de/ WEIZENMEHL 43 %, Wasser, ROGGEN MEHL 7 %, ROGGENMALZFLOCKEN 4 %, GERSTENMALZEXTRAKT, Zucker, Traubenzucker, Malzmehl (GERSTE, WEIZEN), WEIZENGRIESS, Rapsöl, Salz, BUTTERMILCHPULVER, Hefe

Here is another kamps village bread 1.6g sugar https://kamps.de/produkte/brot-kamps-dorfbrot

Or another at 2.6g sugar https://kamps.de/produkte/brot-kamps-eck

Here is a sliced bread variety at 1.5 G that I see at rewe https://www.harry-brot.de/produkte/detail/show/sammy-s-super-sandwich-das-original

This is not the bread I was eating, it is the bread they had at home. Nearly all commercial bread has sugar added to it. Natural sugar is also created with breaking down carbohydrates. A popular sugar added to german bread is malted barley syrup . Nearly all german bread bought at german bakeries have a sugar content between .4g and 1.5g per 100g. Go to a grocery store and flip over a bread package. Go to one of the bakery chains and look at their nutrition facts. Here are some examples. The first one I looked up on Merzenich has 2.7g sugar per 100.

https://baeckerei-merzenich.de/sortiment/

https://www.edna.de/epages/Edna.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=%2FShops%2FEdna%2FProducts%2F2760

https://www.edna.de/epages/Edna.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=%2FShops%2FEdna%2FProducts%2F2730

Germany is better than most places, but it happens here too. It could be one of those things you only notice when you’re looking for it.

I’ve never seen someone open carry a gun in the US but when you listen to people it sounds like everyone does.

I was a my friends WG (group apartment) and her roommate just got back from the US. She was shocked that the Americans even put sugar in their bread. Something something it’s why they are all fat and unhealthy. I was curious, so got all of the german bread there… And you know what? It all had a higher sugar content than the American bread example.

I saw this exact same thing yesterday in Cologne Germany but not with one, but two ambulances.

In the United States what is pictured are not called pancakes. Those are Crêpes / crepes. Add a levening agent (baking soda) and flour and ya got American pancakes.

Want to make them better and more uniquely American and not so Fastfood American?

Use sourdough starter Or

Carefully stir in (to not make it flat) 7up or a not too bitter beer replacing some or all of the water Or

Replace some of the flour with fine corn meal, add rosemary and a pork product (eg sausage, cooked bacon cubes)