Brown or white?

[JohnnyAnger]

Man its all about the rye bread, and perhaps brown/whole grain for anything else. I never have white bread, except with jam - and that is rare and probably something from childhood.

The UK and Netherlands is OK (the Dutch are better than us, but its still not great) on bread on the whole and much prefer anything made in Germany or France, with a preference for German bread. As dpnice pointed out, its not just a case of white or bread in these sorts of places. You get such a massive choice, it's almost a hassle!


I just can't stand white bread for anything else though! Its limp, bland and worse for you. I see no point in it, outside of saving money! Especially the stuff you guys have in the states, its sweetened right? None of that for me

 

[dpnice]

We also need to know your meaning of white and brown bread. Are you talking about sliced bread bought wrapped up in plastic.

Here in France I will happily eat a whole baguette for breakfast and that is white bread I suppose; but it is not a slice of some sort of sugary cotton wool made in a factory.

 

[TriBi]

I mainly eat seed bread - but I'm not averse to wholegrain.

I almost never eat white bread - most of it is tasteless pap...but I can make an exception for a really good baguette.

 

[blackbeltninja]

White. White toast definitely tastes better than brown toast, I reckon.

If I have brown bread, then it has to be whole-grain and/or with seeds in it, not just plain brown bread. And then if I make a sandwich with it, it will be a big sandwich with all manner of lush on it, not just cheese or PB and J. But those simple things work with white bread.

Also, grilled cheese doesn't work on brown, or wholegrain.

-d-

 

[gsdx]

I voted 'white', but that's only a preference over brown. I buy Dempster's Smart 16, made with 16 whole grains.

I don't like brown bread, and I don't like brown rice, either. And I bought one box of Kellogg's brown Rice Krispies, ate a few bites, dumped it, and threw the rest of the box in my compost. It was like eating cardboard.

 

[ElmosToe]

ET,
Your New England is showing.
Do you make Baked Bean Sandwiches with the Brown Bread?

My wife used to have that all the time growing up.

^My mom is from PA.
As kids we were forced to eat many of the things my parents grew up on...(liver and onions anyone? bleh!)

But my dad is from Alaska and oddly he did love the canned brown bread with baked beans.
I did like the occasional slice of the raisin variety. Even then, the thought of eating bread from a can, felt like I should have been living a fallout shelter or something, somewhat turned my stomach.



On another note, I absolutely love using a hearty bread for grilled cheese.
Especially rye bread or marble rye...omg! add a slice of white cheddar, baby Swiss and provolone, use herbed garlic butter on the bread and add a slice of tomato. Mix some brown rice in with roasted red pepper tomato soup with some hot sauce, black pepper and Parmesan cheese....mmmmmmm!!!! Perfect for any cold day. I made that for my nephew several times and he was a happy little mofo.
He attempted to make it for his gf one day and failed miserably, I pointed and laughed, then served her some whole wheat spinach pasta laced with mj.

 

[Kulindahr]

My dad was a member of Toastmasters when I was a kid. Once he did a speech he called "Balloon Bread", a takeoff from the balloons on (IIRC) Wonder Bread. He had a sliced loaf, and somehow got hold of an unsliced loaf. I don't remember what the sliced one was used for in the speech, but while he talked about bread he took out the unsliced one and started crushing it. By the time he hit the "punch line" at the end, he had it down to the size of like a tennis ball or smaller. His "punch line" was basically that it sure was "balloon bread" -- mostly air, and what wasn't air was rubbery.

I've never been able to stomach white bread since then. It may be cheaper per slice, but it's not cheaper by substance -- you're paying for air.

 

[HoodedRat]

I like wholemeal bread bread (not 'brown'; in UK that's often just white bread with colourants), brown rice, wholemeal cous cous, bulgar wheat, pasta, etc, etc. I've pretty much eaten wholemeal everything for the past 35 years or more. The processed stuff never really seems to taste of anything much at all. I'm not a food fascist though; I don't really care what anyone else prefers.

 

[ElmosToe]

My dad was a member of Toastmasters when I was a kid. Once he did a speech he called "Balloon Bread", a takeoff from the balloons on (IIRC) Wonder Bread. He had a sliced loaf, and somehow got hold of an unsliced loaf. I don't remember what the sliced one was used for in the speech, but while he talked about bread he took out the unsliced one and started crushing it. By the time he hit the "punch line" at the end, he had it down to the size of like a tennis ball or smaller. His "punch line" was basically that it sure was "balloon bread" -- mostly air, and what wasn't air was rubbery.

I've never been able to stomach white bread since then. It may be cheaper per slice, but it's not cheaper by substance -- you're paying for air.

^not to mention the negative health affects that will contribute to the cost of your health care down the road.
So it's really not cheaper when you look at it from an overall health and cost perspective.

 

[ibill1]

I like the completely horrible with really no nutritional value white bread. That or fresh baked Italian I get up the street at an Italian bakery every week. Wheat bread is good for you but at my age I don't eat whats good for me any longer. I eat what I like and I'm in excellent health. As saskguy stated, some wheat or brown bread completely over powers my mortadella and provolone sandwiches, I need a good white Italian for that. My family owned 2 Italian restaurants when I was growing up and a bakery baked a bread just for our restaurants. I have never found another bread like that. I do like rye now and then but for my eggs every morning it has to be white toast.

 

[Beachguyj]

Bread white
Rice white
Chocolate brown.

 

[unloadonme]

However, if i want a bacon sandwich, its ALWAYS white bread, them's the rules!

Quite so!

 

[zoltanspawn]

I live in France so the choice is not between white or brown. The bakery has about 20 different sorts of bread from which to choose.

Things aren't quite as desperate as it might seem everywhere elsewhere. Thank god.

 

[ronboy]

It took me years to find what I really wanted, a white bread that's whole grain, but I did it!

Wegmans in-store baked Pane Italian is a whole grain white bread. It is delicious, crusty in the old world Italian Bread bakery tradition, and good for me!

http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/s...toreId=10052&catalogId=10002&productId=763248

 

[star-warrior]

I prefer half and half.

I've come to this arrangement to, as the other half doesn't really like white bread. I find wholemeal too full of bits.

We used to buy a type of seeded loaf, chewing it was a real chore, with sore jaws at the end of the eating...

 

[Kulindahr]

Generally i like brown bread over white bread. My favourite is wholemeal bread. However, if i want a bacon sandwich, its ALWAYS white bread, thems the rules!

No, no -- for a bacon sandwich, you want sweet wheat cheddar, a light whole wheat bread with cheddar flakes baked in.

 

[star-warrior]

No, no -- for a bacon sandwich, you want sweet wheat cheddar, a light whole wheat bread with cheddar flakes baked in.

But, you're just wierd, so there

 

[Kulindahr]

But, you're just wierd, so there

I ran across a bakery in California, on the east side, that made the best cheddar-flake bread. They also made one with real bacon bits baked in, and a combination one.

 

[ibill1]

No, no -- for a bacon sandwich, you want sweet wheat cheddar, a light whole wheat bread with cheddar flakes baked in.

This is sacriledge. A BLT belongs on white toast. PERIOD.

 

[Vitamin]

Brown has more flavor. White does make for delicious baguettes for whatever reason though.