AIBU how can people eat cheap white bread

[Njuy]

Recovering from a stomach bug. One of the first things to eat is dry white toast.

My neighbour bought me a loaf of white bread. The stuff that costs 55p-80p, which many people buy based on the gaps on the shelf.

How can anyone buy this stuff normally? There’s nothing to it. No taste, weird texture.

I thought that it was just me from recovering from the bug. I have a few slices left. Again no taste, weird texture and just awful.

I do have bread - wholemeal. With white bread, it has to be a decent bread

Yes, the region being the whole of the UK/world where both bread and crisps can be purchased 😂

How could knowing about a normal thing be regional? Unless you don't have the internet or never talk to anyone how could living in a particular place stop you having knowledge?

True true

I ate a litre of HD the other day too. oh dear my diet is bad isn't it..

It doesn’t fill you up though, so you eat more of it.
Good quality bread is worth the money. Ditto good quality eggs.

Coem to my local Tesco, all the Jason's bread is always on the reduced section on a Saturday monring

It's perfectly nice when you toast it.
I wouldn't eat it in plain though.

Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life's relentless.

I grew up in a country where people value the quality of ingredients and cook from scratch. I was shocked to see people in the UK eat that white sponge daily. In my country it's sold in big supermarkets as "toast bread", a novelty food. To me it's so gooey it's inedible when not toasted. Also all the chemicals in it - bread should only have flour, water, salt and sourdough starter (which is also flour and water). I usually get a few loaves of real bread from a Polish shop and freeze for later

You can’t possibly be from the UK in that case??

I have made my own bread for many years. A white loaf costs me about 50p to make.

People are being such dicks banging on about the neighbour. Cheap white bread is shit, it's one of the main ways the food industry has fucked us all over, messing about with our food to make us buy even more shit so they can make a profit for their shareholders who are buying all the sourdough.

The only decent bread available is expensive (£2.50-£3.00 a loaf) or you make it yourself.Over 90% of the bread in the supermarket at a huge range of price points is made by the Chorley Wood process and is basically the same a a basic white loaf. Real bread has 4 or less ingredients, if there are more on your loaf it is functionally the same as the basic white loaf. Anything more than Flour, salt yeast and water it is Chorley Wood process.

You must have led a very sheltered life.
Even I have heard of it.
Though not partaken...

Of course im the one laughing because I actually love brown toast!

Because some people don’t have the budget for more expensive bread. I buy ‘yellow ticket’ bread when I can, if finances are tight.
Your neighbour sounds very kind.

I always buy Roberts white bread. Not the cheapest but I like it and I like to support what for me is a local bakery. Wholemeal bread as toast tastes like chewing on a piece of dry cardboard.

Not true actually. I buy Irish Pride whole grain bread, mass produced yet non UPF. Preservative free, no emulsifiers. It has vitamin c/ascorbic acid - all but the most militant would accept this as non-UPF. Available in most supermarkets. Obviously I’m not in the UK but I’m sure there are equivalents available there.

My point stands - poorer people have less choice. I can’t be arsed to make my own bread and am fortunate enough to be able to buy a reasonably priced, readily available alternative I.e. not artisan produced sourdough. I’m very aware my Irish Pride whole grain is out of budget for a lot of lower income families and I think this is very wrong.

‘I buy this one specific bread that isn’t available in the country being discussed and some people say it isn’t UPF despite being made in a factory and having non kitchen ready ingredients involved in its manufacture so UK supermarket wholegrain bread isn’t as UPF as white on that basis.’

You see how that isn’t a good point?

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I am 55 and grew up in the north and then have lived in London since I was 21. I have heard of crisp sandwiches/butties but have not ever had one or seen anyone eat one.

However, I love all bread, cheap and posh. And like crisps. So what is the iconic recipe?

Jason’s sourdough for me is a dense brick that requires brute force to slice it, and would be a good weapon if I was burgled. I have tried, but nah, just awful.

Yes, the worst. Tried it once, never again.

White bread, butter, grated cheese, smash the crisps in. That’s the general generic base. I like to add picked and lettuce and mayonnaise but some like salad cream or other sandwich fillings or cucumber.

Hovis sliced white is great for everything! Bacon sandwiches, fish finger sandwiches, anything in a sandwich (not crisps) toast and jam..

I eat Jason's sourdough on a regular basis with poached eggs and avacado but I wouldn't have it as a sandwich and even putting jam or honey on it toasted just isn't that nice.

It's also the only bread my kids will eat 🤷

Haven’t read the whole thread, but can I add plain loaf to the mix? And Veda?

How do people have enough time in their life to comment about people who eat white bread when they don’t have to do themselves because they have free well?

im sure there is an equine available in UK supermarkets, it would be strange if a country with a population of 69 million has less choice than a country of 5 million people.

also, I’ve not read the guidelines that say you have to be in the uk to post an opinion? I’m not sure what yiu find so controversial about my opinion that poorer people have less food choice.

It’s also ridiculous to suggest that the bread I buy is UPF because it’s made in a factory and basically implying that it is no healthier than a cheap UPF white loaf with little nutritional value. There are degrees. I’ve said I can’t be arsed to make my own bread so I find a reasonable compromise. I’m lucky I can afford to do that - I believe everybody should have that choice, it’s a disgrace that poorer people can’t afford to choose healthier alternatives. The key word being choose - if people prefer to buy cheap UPF bread that’s their prerogative. But they should have a choice.