Letters: Sliced bread is simply too sweet in France

To the Editor,

Having read the article about so-called industrial bread in France, i.e. the sliced, packaged stuff, I have to say that it is poor in the extreme, although my wife and I have come across a couple that have been acceptable – usually granary. 

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However, to answer which is best, UK or French bread, the obvious winner has to be the UK’s versions of sliced bread, particularly thick-sliced. 

This is a clear winner when it comes to making toast and so far ahead of the French equivalent as to be in a different universe! 

Why does French sliced bread have a weird sweetness as well as a strange texture when compared with the likes of a Warburton's Toastie?

Graham Humphreys, by email

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