/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20481046
>Why can't we have independent bakeries in USA?

I'm under the impression it's three reasons:
-Poor urban planning that prioritizes car travel over basically everyone & everything else, turning towns and cities into glorified parking lots for *large chain establishments that can afford to rent that much property. Like, think of all the towns across N. America that are basically this: >>20481710
-The price of *rent has made starting a small business today effectively impossible. Go to any small, privately owned, store in any big city and ask the owners and they'll probably tell you two things: they own the store and they started either in the 90's or before.
-American consumer habits are also kind of dogshit. N.Americans really love their sliced white factory bread, they have tremendous company brand loyalty, and it's extremely difficult to sell them ordinary products from some unremarkable vendor that they feel they could just get from a Safeway bakery or whatever. Furthermore, buying fresh bread every day, or every other day, is very much a European/Old world habit.

*Large box/chain grocery stores are also aggressively politically involved and motivated and have been doing everything they can to protect their interests. It's kind of the idea that during Covid places like Walmart and Sobeyes and Safeway, could easily petition the government and keep their business open and made 'mandatory services' - with minimal stipulations or extra-responcibilities - while the actual local German bakery in my own town was driven out of business during covid because every week there were new rules for them to follow.

>>20379673

/tg/ Anon cross-posting: it was and it wasn't.

Taking you literally and going back time to 1024 AD:

>Pros
-Sugar hasn't become commonly available and won't until 500 more years, so your teeth are going to be in far better condition. You'll have plaque, but very few people earnestly get cavities or tooth decay quite like how we do. The only sweeteners available are basically honey, fruit, and tree syrup tho.
-There's effectively no carcinogens either: no plastics, no pesticides, or really anything any other of those trace chemicals that give us cancer. Neither is there any seed oils; people cook with lard, butter, and olive oil exclusively. Palm oil actually is around, but if you want it you'll have to go to Northern Africa.
-The food is actually good. Mannerisms and tastes might be a little different, but people are still people and they weren't actually eating foul tasting slop.

>Cons
-All the piped water is contaminated with lead from the lead pipes. Ye olde people had access to clean water in the form of lead piping, aqueducts, and well water. I'd recommend boiling it thoroughly though before use.
-People use human feces to fertilizer their fields, so any fresh produce needs to be cleaned thoroughly. You will be getting traveler's diarrhea at the very least, but dysentery is also super duper common.
Furthermore, most vegetables need to be boiled to shit anyway because they haven't *quite* been bred to be so easy to eat like they are today. Most Brassicas are still somewhat toxic raw and snap peas won't circulate out of Asia until the 1800's.
-Every 14 years there's almost guaranteed to be a famine where, like, 1/4th of everybody dies- especially children. Furthermore, malnutrition caused by a monotonous diet is common even in times of abundance. Especially micronutrients. People's diets are basically 75-80% bread/bread-adjacent and then some leafy vegetables, eggs, and cheese/dairy product.

Great taste but basically candy, and should be treated as such

>>13600407
What if you wrap dough around an empty silicone capsule? Maybe it can act as replacement bread insides.

>>12310396
A BREAD-TRAYED CRUST-OMER

>>12238244
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