This is not a dunk post on bread, I'm as obsessed with it as the rest of my species is, but why?
Literally pure carbs.. delicious..,, only potatoes/plantains rival bread imo
You can make it with just flour, water, and, salt. You can cook it over/beside fire. Flour comes from a fairly common and prolific crop. It doesn't spoil quickly like meat. It smells good, it tastes good. It's light so it's easy to transport. It's full of carbs and protein. It's a solid edible foam that's incredibly versatile.
how does bread even work
like you put bread soup into the oven and bread comes out
magic, huge respect to the ancestors for figuring that one out
Imagine being the first person to find out about yeast and making nice airy loaves of bread. What a flex on the neighbours.
Everyone so far has missed the best bit. You can use it as a container for other ingredients that you couldn't normally hold with your hands.
For example, a pb&j without the bread would be a very messy situation.
Because wheat is a civilisation crop and we're cucks. Wheat has to be harvested seasonally or you lose it. This itself forces a degree of labour discipline on the wheat eating populace. You can 'store' it easily but store just as easily means lock it up so the people can't get to it unless they kowtow to the state.
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Tastes good, pretty easy to make, easy to get creative. Bread is just an all around S tier food item.
I have Celiac, so I have to buy or make special breads. Bread, when made in a way that is healthy for the consumer, is really all that and a bag of chips. You can eat a slice instantly if you need quick food, unlike jerky it goes well with other foods/is an ingredient itself.
It gives me the strength to post. These past days no bread low posting, got some bread and now I'm back. I'll keep posting as long as I have bread.
Fills you up and is cheap/easy to make a lot of (comparatively), making it a staple of many people's traditional diets, meaning we grow up with it being used heavily in our meals and makes it one of the most "familiar"/"comforting" foods, I think. I have relatives who can't eat a single meal without a bit of bread - they don't feel full without it, because when they were younger it was the main thing filling them up. We go to a restaurant, order stodgy food, and my cousin sneaks in a slice of bread for her husband anyway lol
I have relatives who can’t eat a single meal without a bit of bread
This is basically the case for the whole population of my country (France).
Pretty much this. The history of food is the history of food preservation.
