"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:56:47 -0500, James Silverton
wrote:

On 11/15/2014 11:23 AM, Erilar wrote:
"tim....." wrote:
"Tom P" wrote in message
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On 08.11.2014 21:38, JohnT wrote:

"Erilar" wrote in message
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Martin wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Erilar

wrote:

The election results are in. i really want to move to Germany.
Politics
strike me as more rational there.

Only because you don't live in Germany.

Ah, but I follow events there and I HAVE lived there in the past.
Besides,
they have the best bread in the world!

Some German bread is tolerably good. I assume that you are not
familiar
with Poilane.

There is no such thing as "German" bread. Each region has different
kinds of bread. In Bavaria bread often contains a lot of caraway, an
acquired taste for me.

IME almost all German Bread's an acquired taste for me. I like my
bread
to be soft and fluffy, not so dense you can use it as roof tiles.

It may "taste" nicer than other countries bread but I just can't abide
the texture

Oh, then you must like the tasteless white stuff they call "bread" in
the
US?


A lot of countries have "tasteless white stuff" bread. I've seen it in a
French supermarket and think it was called "Pain pour toast". The
British eat a lot of it too. It's common in the Outer Hebrides where it
shipped from Glasgow and takes several days to come.

M&S in the Netherlands import it from UK. An English food shop that used
to be
in Scheveningen said that imported from UK white sliced bread and toilet
paper,
(not a lot of difference) were their best selling products.

It's equally pointless [1] paying M&S prices for "staples" in the UK, but
many do

tim

[1] ignoring the possibility of differential travelling costs to alternative
suppliers