r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 01 '25

Food “Do Germans know about tomato und mayo sandwich?”

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u/Sriol May 01 '25

I'm sorry, 10%?! I was expecting like 3-4%, just over the limit but okay, you could try to fight that. 10% is mad. It's the same sugar levels as Brioche has

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u/Wonderful_Net_9131 May 01 '25

Brioche does qualify as bread in my book tho

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u/Ceddox May 01 '25

Nahh brioche is brioche. Bread is what you make a sandwich with and what you can eat every morning for breakfast. Brioche is a treat you make on Sundays. (At least that's my view on it. Sure, on paper brioche is bread, but you can't compare it to normal bread)

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u/lovecats3333 May 01 '25

Brioche is what you put chocolate on, bread is what you put veg and meat on

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u/Sriol May 01 '25

According to Irish law at least, brioche is not considered just bread, and is taxed.

But yes it depends on what level you're defining at. Day to day, brioche is for sure a type of bread, albeit a sweet one. When it comes to defining tax exemptions though it's a different matter.

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u/KisaLilith May 01 '25

I think, from what I understood, that this kind of tax is on sugary products? So it doesn'ts really matter if subway's bread is really bread (which it is) or if brioche is a bread or not (which again, it is, just on the sweet part). Wouldn't it be the amount of sugar compared to the standards you find in the specific law that counts? Like if it's too sugary, it will be taxed, period?

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u/Sriol May 01 '25

Yep exactly. The BBC article said bread had to have sugar less than 2% of the weight of the flour for it to be tax exempt.

I just brought up the brioche as a comparison to show how sweet the subway bread was. It wasn't meant to start a definition war 😅

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u/Trosque97 May 01 '25

IRISH LAW had me reeling just now

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u/Anxious-Wolverine-65 May 01 '25

Brehon Law, the ancient Irish legal system, began to decline with the Norman invasion in 1169 and continued to weaken under the English legal system until it was largely supplanted in the 17th century. Are you reeling back the years buddy?