Bread is CIVILIZATION
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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Bread made feeding people cheap. That isn't civilization; that's dominator culture. It's slavery with extra steps. You've all been eating peasant food. Break the cycle.
Bread is a luxury, if feeding people cheap was the only concern, porridge would be a better use of grains than bread. Porridge predominated when peasant culture predominated; bread becomes common with civilization's connections, innovations, and specialization.
So basically people eat porridge when they don’t have access to a mill and oven.
Bread is a whole lot of work to make than say, rice. Bread isn't cheap, it's only cheap because some of the ingredient might've been subsidised in one way or another, to make sure the country isn't starving. It's popular among us peasant because it could last, it's one of the most versatile ingredient available, and it's filling.