I have found that Bread is a distinctly European obsession. My American partner just doesn’t get it, nor do my Asian and African friends.
It’s so satisfying to have a giant sandwich with meat veg and cheese or indeed just bread fresh from the oven dripping with butter. It’s the most versatile thing imaginable and it’s made from fucking grass!
Ok like Indians make a lot of bread, but it tends to be various types of flat bread. Don’t get me wrong I’ll demolish a peshwari naan in about 3.76 seconds but it’s not as versatile as a good crusty loaf.
You just have the wrong Asian friend. You ever have pineapple bun? No it doesn’t have pineapple.
Most of the time it comes with nothing inside it. The crust itself is the tastiest thing, but there are variations, like a big slice of butter, or embedded red bean paste.
The recipes I’ve seen all use egg, milk and sugar, so I’d argue that they’re closer to cake than bread. But it looks fucking tasty and I will be making them soon.
I started making my own sourdough bread during COVID because for a while there they didn’t have bread or yeast at the grocery stores. I love the fact that the ingredients are just flour, water, salt and starter (which itself is just flour and water and the yeastie beasties). The yeast all dies during cooking and the water is essentially cooked out of it, so sourdough bread is really just flour altered into a really funky form with a bit of salt. I like the added thought that even the flour is just ground-up grass.
I do not have the patience for sourdough. My favourite bread is probably something along the lines of chleb lwowski or the Finnish hard bread Ruisreikäleipä which is rye bread with caraway seeds. It’ll fuck up your gums, but it’s really tasty.
I have found that Bread is a distinctly European obsession. My American partner just doesn’t get it, nor do my Asian and African friends.
It’s so satisfying to have a giant sandwich with meat veg and cheese or indeed just bread fresh from the oven dripping with butter. It’s the most versatile thing imaginable and it’s made from fucking grass!
Jesus Christ I fucking love bread!
Idk about Africa but Asians fucking love bread. Have you ever been to an Asian bakery? Oh the glorious carbs…
Ok like Indians make a lot of bread, but it tends to be various types of flat bread. Don’t get me wrong I’ll demolish a peshwari naan in about 3.76 seconds but it’s not as versatile as a good crusty loaf.
Classic eurobrain right here.
A staple food for basically every civizilization on the planet is “distinctly european”.
I’m not saying other cultures don’t have bread, that’d be fucking r*****d. I’m saying that bread is not as integral a part of other cultures.
Which also is a pretty dumb thing to say.
You just have the wrong Asian friend. You ever have pineapple bun? No it doesn’t have pineapple.
Most of the time it comes with nothing inside it. The crust itself is the tastiest thing, but there are variations, like a big slice of butter, or embedded red bean paste.
The recipes I’ve seen all use egg, milk and sugar, so I’d argue that they’re closer to cake than bread. But it looks fucking tasty and I will be making them soon.
I started making my own sourdough bread during COVID because for a while there they didn’t have bread or yeast at the grocery stores. I love the fact that the ingredients are just flour, water, salt and starter (which itself is just flour and water and the yeastie beasties). The yeast all dies during cooking and the water is essentially cooked out of it, so sourdough bread is really just flour altered into a really funky form with a bit of salt. I like the added thought that even the flour is just ground-up grass.
I do not have the patience for sourdough. My favourite bread is probably something along the lines of chleb lwowski or the Finnish hard bread Ruisreikäleipä which is rye bread with caraway seeds. It’ll fuck up your gums, but it’s really tasty.
asia loves bread lol, ever heard of bao buns/dumplings/shokupan?
Of course i have, and i would argue that bread and bunns are 2 seperate food categories.