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Also, AFAIK they don't add iron shavings to it
I'm afraid to ask?
Iron shavings -> bad bacteria -> poor Vitamin B status -> intestinal lining damage -> celiac, allergies and autoimmune
TLDR; bread in the US makes people sick, not in Europe
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This is nitpicking, but part of what makes the Key & Peele sketch funny is that the two recipes the cafe owner describes appear to be the exact same. I read it as poking fun at extreme nationalism creating artificial differences when there really are none. That being said, it is a comedy sketch, so ultimately it’s up to interpretation.
In this case your perception is very different from mine. The recipes appear the same but there's subtle differences. Exactly the situation in real life and they chose, probably knowingly, the one food that's very controversial and every nation around claims their recipe is the best. Ćevapi -> ćevapčići -> mici (Romanian). I can understand Kay and Peele's sketch because I feel exactly the same looking over the Bosnia…
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Bread is indeed different nowadays, specially in the americas. Modern wheat was "invented" by Norman Borlaug in the 60s. It was genetically modified (through breeding and other means) to provide higher yield. Some places, like Italy and France, still use the old low yield "original" wheat. I learned this painful lesson when I thought I had gluten allergy. I can't eat any kind of bread in the US. But when I went to Fr…
Bread in the USA is an abomination. There. I said it. Any bread in the normal isle that you can buy and have on your counter for over a week, where it still looks and feels and tastes the same is an abomination. It is not bread. It is a super-processed food which makes you initially feel full but digests very rapidly, leaving you hungry again. 100 calories of engineered US bread compared to 100 calories of steel cut…
Sourdough does exist and keeps well.