This New Yorker Thinks America Has A Bread Problem🥖 Do You Agree?
Summary
A straphanger champions bread consumption in America, claiming people are too worried about feeling bloated. Kareem pushes back on the premise when his interview subject admits they actually avoid bread themselves because of, well, the bloat. The conversation spirals through Sweetgreen's free bread offering, European versus American attitudes, and whether "getting this bread" only makes sense if it's edible. There's a detour into Babe: Pig in the City. The rider thinks pita bread gets unfairly associated with homelessness. Then Kareem pivots to male pregnancy out of nowhere.
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So what's your take? Normalize eating bread. What do you mean by that?
Every time I go to Sweetgreen and they ask if I want the free bread, they're shocked that I say yes. You think America has a bread bread problem? A bread problem, an aversion to bread. Yeah.
Wait, so you think that Americans should eat more bread? Why though? It's delicious. Have you had bread? I mean, I love bread.
Yeah, and you think that the reason that they don't eat it is because it makes you bloated? I think people are worried about the bloat. Don't realize the bloat. Yeah.
Have you seen Babe: Pig in the City? I love Babe. I think they talk about bread. Okay, I think we need to get the European bread.
What do you think about getting this bread? Getting the European bread? No, like getting this bread. Like, let's get this, bro.
I mean, I'm down if it's the actual kind you eat. So you're down to get this bread if you can eat it? If I can eat it. But if if you cannot eat this bread, you wouldn't get it? I don't want to get this bread. Pita bread. I like it. People eat a lot of pita bread. I think they think they're homeless.
Say it again? That's cool.
What's your favorite kind of bread? I don't eat bread.
What the hell? The bloat.
Speaking of bloat, I think we need to find a way that men can be pregnant. Okay, welcome to Subway Six.