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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

A British baker who lives and works in Mexico City criticized Mexican bread, setting off a shit storm

Chinese bread has a lot in common with Mexican bread (they probably share the same colonial roots) and I am tired of European bread colonialism.

I don’t talk shit about sourdough (well I do but only in safe spaces)

1. Not everyone likes dense and crusty bread

2. Dense and crusty bread is not the only bread

3. European baking is not the only baking

4. Bread occupies a different place in other food cultures (we don’t eat them as a main, we eat them as a snack)

https://youtu.be/06dvkFPIqYU

#Food #Baking #Bread #mexico

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Jack
Jack
@knapjack@gruntle.cc replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Blocked and reported. 😉

#AllCarbsMatter

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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

This article is really good

“The kind of bread Hart celebrates comes with a steep price tag. In Mexico City, a supermarket sourdough loaf costs about 80 pesos; at Green Rhino (Hart’s bakery), prices climb from 60 to 165.

Mexico’s Ministry of Economy reports that the average monthly salary in 2025 was 6,430 pesos. Clearly, his bakery doesn’t cater to the average local.”

His exact comments: “They don’t really have a bread culture. They make tortas with these ugly white buns that are cheap and industrially made””

The bread he’s dissing costs 5 pesos compared to his bread which costs 165.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/taste-of-mexico-how-to-avoid-pulling-a-richard-hart/

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Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
@federicomena@mstdn.mx replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@skinnylatte the first time I heard about this jerk was via https://www.tiktok.com/@elweydelpan0/video/7573417555600182548 - a guy who in turn has his own bakery and explains things.

Probando la green rhino #panaderia #cdmx #masamadre #elmejor
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GeePawHill
GeePawHill
@GeePawHill@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@skinnylatte Irrelevant aside: about six months in to the pandemic, someone on twitter wrote: "Please God somebody do a sportsball so my boyfriend will shut up about his sourdough starter for ten minutes."

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