Do Americans eat anything other than toast?

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1. I really like toast. I probably eat it 2 or 3 times per year.

2. I’d argue most of us only have coffee in the morning.

3. Toast is easy to film.
   We have generic white, wheat and rye sliced loaves produced by factories and available in stores on the same day. The same factories produce hotdog and hamburger buns in several varieties.
   Many of the same grocery stores will also offer baked daily on site baguettes and sourdough loaves and bagels at the cheap end.
   Every medium sized town has a local bakery that offer good quality bread at a price that is accessible even at low wages. Every large city has a few bakeries that cater to special dietary needs or preferences or cultures

4. Home bakeries are getting some traction in the us recently, aren’t they?

5. Wait, there’s food other than toast?!

   Edit: I would like to add, whatever variety of breads you have in Germany, we have here…cause yunno, lots of German immigrants.

6. The same props get used in multiple movies.

7. LOL this is so funny to me! I’ve been skipping breakfast lately, but in the past I’ve had bagels, scrambled eggs, bananas, strawberries, oatmeal, or healthy smoothies. Usually breakfast is pretty light here, unless we’re on vacation, so usually I’d make something quickly and j eat it in the car.

8. No. We only have white bread, it’s a government mandate. Truly you are any superior society.

9. It’s TV dude, very few movie directors are gonna send some one to get a special type of bread and specialized breakfast when they can get a 2 dollar loaf and have enough slices for multiple people and multiple shots. It’s cheaper and more productive.

10. Bread variety in the USA is pretty poor compared to Germany, I’m afraid.

    However, TV is not quite representative of reality and they don’t show a lot of eating.

    In particular, many Americans eat bagels for breakfast (unless they live in New York, Boston, or a few other places then these are sad toroidal imitations of true bagels, but let’s not focus on that).

11. An average American grocery store will have maybe 1/2 an aisle worth of a bread selection; you wouldn’t be starved for choice. But bread isn’t as integral to our cuisine as yours

12. Nope. And we put ranch on it.

13. If I’m not mistaken “Toast” in Germany is packaged sliced soft bread. You should understand that in English “toast” is any kind of bread (white, wheat, rye, pre-sliced, self-sliced, etc) that has been put in a toaster and browned.

    And yes, Americans have and eat many different types of bread.

14. I’m a Toastegan. I only eat toast, eating toast is 95% of my personality, and I have to work it in that I only eat toast into all other conversations that I have.

15. OP how would you feel if we formed our expectations on germany based on tv shows and movies? Do you think it would be fair and/or accurate?

16. >As a german, I find this very strange as we have a rich selection of bread types. Now I dont expect that same variety in the US but at least some other form as plain toast.

    Think about how large the United States is, then think about how many people there are. How does that compare to Germany? Do you think any Germans would have immigrated to the US and brought their favorite breads with them? Then apply that thinking to every nationality that has immigrated to the US. We have great German bread, we have great Italian bread, we have great English bread ect. ect.

17. 1) In English, toast is any form of bread that has been toasted in a toaster or toaster oven. I had toast made from a baguette yesterday, for example. It is *not* bread “meant to be toasted”, which according to past Germans who have asked this question is what the cognate means in German.

    2) Sandwich bread is the most common bread in the US. That’s a kind of bread that made with milk and oil and a little sugar to keep a hard crust from forming. It’s great for sandwiches and toast. Most of out bread is eaten in these forms, which should go a long ways towards explaining why it’s the most common bread. But we’ve also got any other bread you could imagine, whether German origin, American origin, or others. Not all breads are available in all cities. Where I grew up, we had a lot of Portuguese immigrants and I still love a good Portuguese sweet bread. Now I have to drive about a hundred miles to find that.

18. No, toast is the only breakfast food we eat. Believe what you see on TV. /s

19. And WHY do you think we have less variety of bread in the US? Please don’t say TV or the “American” section of the supermarket. 😑

20. I love how you took the opportunity to slip in a jab there.

21. I’m going to try to assume you’re not trying to be condescending in putting down the US for bread lmao but we have many many varieties of bread.

    TV isn’t real life

22. Personally I go for cinnamon raisins toast with real butter and peanut butter but, waffles or pancakes with thick slab bacon would work. If it’s just a commercial or a small 2 minute shot in a movie, why would they elaborate on breakfast?

23. We also have bagels, croissants, and English Muffins.

24. Do Germans think everything on tv and movies is essentially documentary footage?

25. I mean, have you *smelled* toast? It does something to your brain. When my wife makes toast, I must have a piece of toast, even if I wasn’t hungry before.

    But for our usual Sunday breakfast, I’ll be putting biscuits in the oven in about an hour.

26. Within 12 city blocks of my apt I have a variety of bakers specialized in French/Polish/Greek/Guyanese/British/Italian/Mexican/Traditional Southern baked goods.

    We got bread covered boss.

27. Why wouldn’t you expect the same variety? We have bakeries just like any other country.

28. *Southern style biscuits:* “Am I a joke to you?!”

29. This entire post just reminds me of the toast song. YEAH TOAST

30. Did you see it on tv? Ok that is your first sign that it isn’t real. US tv is nothing like real life.

31. Why do movies have y’all in such a chokehold

32. Toast is easy; the food commissary at most TV studios and movie sets undoubtedly has a bunch of loaves to make sandwiches with.

    And toast holds up for the multiple hours a scene may take to film. (Compare to cereal in milk, which turns into mush in a few minutes.) It’s also not really gross to spit out a piece of toast you’ve bitten into. (Which actors do; do you think they actually eat 15 slices of toast that they may wind up biting into during the multiple takes of a shoot?)

    I also hate to break it to you, but “ice cream” on a set is often actually whipped mash potatoes; it’s why actors may pantomime licking the ice cream cone, but they’re not trying to eat the stuff. If you’re outside for a couple of hours doing a shoot–and ice cream melts in minutes–you’ll need to either go through a lot of melted ice cream, or use a substitute on set.

    Same thing with cakes; either it’s butter frosting (which can hold up in the heat), or it’s mashed potatoes died with food coloring.

    So that’s why TV is not like real life; because you use what visually stands up under the hot spotlights for hours at a time, and which can be easily spat out into a bucket off screen.

33. I mean, I make my own corn tortillas from scratch, have friends who make naan from scratch, and can easily buy freshly baked pita at a dozen local bakeries or restaurants, but somehow I doubt that’s what you mean by “bread”…

34. No. We only eat toast. Then we grab our AR-15’s and head off to work in our SUV’s that get 15 miles to the gallon.

    That bakery in the grocery store that takes foccacia, sourdough, baguettes? Only foreigners go there.

    /s

35. TV is not real life.

36. We actually have more variety than Germany and our stores are open on Sunday

37. I think you are mistaking us for the British…

38. [Here is an average prepackaged bread isle.](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.9fbe3qjW0Fh3dMJn5IOCvAHaFt%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=47b465f84a77a7080e838b07e37c6d728b4d8d9dda76f1c562742ec2088b21a5&ipo=images) FYI it contains more than just white bread.

    [Here](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.eTYcW_-5-FRNNlW8xa2CAAHaFc%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=af1691b281cdac1bc8289a7b6d312c7fc90fb3a7564b1afbf940db5254ca110e&ipo=images) and here [is an average bakery section.](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.eTYcW_-5-FRNNlW8xa2CAAHaFc%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=af1691b281cdac1bc8289a7b6d312c7fc90fb3a7564b1afbf940db5254ca110e&ipo=images)

39. Yes, we have other kinds of bread other than pre sliced sandwich bread. Personally I like breads that are nice and crusty with a soft inside, like a good baguette.

40. No, just toast. I haven’t eaten anything other than toast for the past 20 years.

41. Are there multiple types of bread? how did yall manage to nearly take over the world of course theres multiple types of bread