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- Sep 22, 2021
The only place I would trust to make quality bread locally is the bobo french café / boulangerie downtown. If you get there early enough you can have croissants and pains au chocolat, etc., that taste authentic, and when they run out for the day that's that, just like in France.
The difference I notice is that in Europe / UK, not only do they have bakeries everywhere, but every supermarket bakes its own really good selection of bread too. I don’t mean just baguettes, but real loaves of different styles and flours, in paper bags so they don’t go all sweaty, and no dubious preservatives in them because you’re going to eat it that day and next.
And in Scandinavia / Eastern Europe you’ll get decent rye bread and cracker bread and all that stuff too.
In the US, even in a nice supermarket that has a decent selection of cheese, the bread range still sucks ass. It’ll be over-sweetened, chewy yet stale, no crust, no roughage, pre-sliced in a plastic bag. Awful.