That’s more or less a summary of the major issues with American food. It’s industrialized and standardized into a way where it’ll keep you alive for cheap and is inoffensive. But it’s weirdly sweet and one can’t help but wonder why the first mass subsidized bread wasn’t whole wheat.
White bread lasts longer than whole-wheat bread, and white flour is the cheapest available flour (well, since industrialization. Historically it was reserved for special occasions and the social elites) . Also Wonderbread is available in whole wheat. Also also:
Hostess, the makers of such delightful American™ staple foods as Twinkies, Ho-Hos and (for many years) Wonderbread, went bankrupt more than a decade ago, so like… they weren’t (and aren’t) a huge part of the american diet.
That’s more or less a summary of the major issues with American food. It’s industrialized and standardized into a way where it’ll keep you alive for cheap and is inoffensive. But it’s weirdly sweet and one can’t help but wonder why the first mass subsidized bread wasn’t whole wheat.
White bread lasts longer than whole-wheat bread, and white flour is the cheapest available flour (well, since industrialization. Historically it was reserved for special occasions and the social elites) . Also Wonderbread is available in whole wheat. Also also:
Hostess, the makers of such delightful American™ staple foods as Twinkies, Ho-Hos and (for many years) Wonderbread, went bankrupt more than a decade ago, so like… they weren’t (and aren’t) a huge part of the american diet.