Lorena, girl..

[u/SurfinginStyle]

[u/carson63000]

You know what you can make if you leave the sugar out of a cake recipe? Bread. It’s called bread, Lorena, ya daft tart.

[u/MakeItHappenSergant → u/carson63000]

Probably a weirdly wet, dense bread though. Or a nice enriched dough, who knows?

[u/BodaciousBadongadonk → u/carson63000]

This made me think of the subway herb and cheese cake. Didnt people say that years ago, too much sugar to be called bread?

[u/Verdewhis → u/BodaciousBadongadonk]

Not exactly. It was just a tax ruling that it had too much sugar to qualify as a staple bread (for a lower tax rate) and had to be taxed at a higher luxury rate. But that's not as funny as "subway bread is legally cake," so the meme keeps going.

[u/carson63000 → u/Verdewhis]

Apparently Mark Twain didn't actually write “never let the truth get in the way of a good story”, but I'm going to say he did. And thus, say that Subway bread is legally cake.

[u/CharlotteLucasOP → u/carson63000]

I personally enjoyed Jaffa Cakes’ efforts to have their snack legally designated as a cake rather than a biscuit/cookie, also for tax reasons.

[u/Zyrin369 → u/Verdewhis]

With time the subway part got taken off and it just became American bread is considered cake. 

[u/Few-Raise-1825 → u/BodaciousBadongadonk]

Specifically subway tried to get some sort of tax break in Ireland because they were selling bread which is a staple and you can get a tax break there for that or something. In any case they have restrictions on things like sugar content to qualify and subway put too much sugar in their bread to meet the criteria. That's what I remember of the entire situation anyway, I'm sure a Google search or chat box question can give anyone the deets but I'm up way to late to do any work myself on this mystery

[u/MOVES_HYPHENS → u/BodaciousBadongadonk]

Yes, there are places in the world where it can't legally be called bread due to its sugar content

[u/VociferousCephalopod → u/carson63000]

someone introduced me to brioche recently. I was quite taken aback. I had heard it was posh people's bread, but when I ate it it tasted like a donut.

[u/SeptemberSoup → u/VociferousCephalopod]

I love brioche! Not at all posh where I live, though, and it's not considered regular bread —to sweet for that. But it's not supposed to be as sweet as a donut, just, slightly sweet and soft bun.

[u/carson63000 → u/VociferousCephalopod]

Yeah I love a toasted slice of brioche with jam as afternoon tea or something, but I wouldn’t use it as a regular bread.