this tweet is another cultural insecurity tweet, this time inspired by the fact that I spent four months in north america and couldn't find a single piece of bread that didn't have shitloads of sugar in it
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Genuine question: how to Americans eat eggs on bread when all the bread has sugar in it?
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not sure what you mean? i don't think i've ever seen bread with sugar in it for sale here 🤔 what state(s) were you in?
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NY, GA, Ontario, and Quebec. Every single piece of bread I could find was sugary - it had sugar in it
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huh okay apparently added sugar in american bread is a thing. this is news to me. i don't think i can taste it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I couldn't eat it except with honey and jam. It was unusable (for me) for any savoury purposes like salad sandwiches or eggs or whatever
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okay this is another thing i don't know about - is eggs on bread a thing? hmm i guess it is
idk when i used to eat bread i'd eat like burgers or whatever at restaurants and it'd be fine and otherwise at home i only ate bread with nutella or jam or cinnamon or etc
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oh wow, this is really interesting now. I'm thinking of a fried egg on toast, or cheese, or bacon - all things that are spiritually divorced from white sugar
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in american breakfasts i think the toast would be on the side and you'd eat it with jam or butter. putting that stuff on the toast... i mean i guess it's basically a breakfast sandwich but i don't think i've seen it 🤔
i bet if i tasted it i wouldn't notice the sugar tho
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ah ok, that makes more sense now. I think I'm starting to see the picture
when I was visiting I resorted to bagels for my eggs on toast. I'd slice them and toast them and poach an egg to put on top because bagels are more or less bread, but they lean salty rather than sweet
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yeah hmm i guess that ends up being sorta like an egg mcmuffin:
