<story><title>How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat</title><url>http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/12/10/food-industry-michael-moss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbokun</author><text>I really, truely do not like the taste of sugar in my bread, pasta sauce, and yogurt. (I like the yogurt to taste yogurty, then add something sweet to it, like a banana or chocolate chips.)&lt;p&gt;But it&amp;#x27;s maddening going through package after package of bread, trying to find one without lots of added sugar.  Free market capitalism is often advertised as just giving people what they want, but there are lots of cases like this where what people want and what is available to buy don&amp;#x27;t match up.&lt;p&gt;I really hope what the article says about food company profits dropping because people are buying less processed foods.  Maybe it will become easier to buy food that tastes like something other than salt, sugar, and fat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debacle</author><text>Trust yourself that you can make your own, delicious, low-effort bread. I produce 2-3 loaves a week, and the effort involved is maybe 30 minutes each time. The cost, barring additional ingredients (usually egg), is close to a dollar per loaf, and you can make exactly the loaf you&amp;#x27;re in the mood for.&lt;p&gt;As long as you don&amp;#x27;t find a way to kill the yeast, even your bad bread will taste better than store bought bread.</text></comment>
<story><title>How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat</title><url>http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/12/10/food-industry-michael-moss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbokun</author><text>I really, truely do not like the taste of sugar in my bread, pasta sauce, and yogurt. (I like the yogurt to taste yogurty, then add something sweet to it, like a banana or chocolate chips.)&lt;p&gt;But it&amp;#x27;s maddening going through package after package of bread, trying to find one without lots of added sugar.  Free market capitalism is often advertised as just giving people what they want, but there are lots of cases like this where what people want and what is available to buy don&amp;#x27;t match up.&lt;p&gt;I really hope what the article says about food company profits dropping because people are buying less processed foods.  Maybe it will become easier to buy food that tastes like something other than salt, sugar, and fat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>After a brief trip to Europe a couple of years back, I returned to the States to discover that our bread is actually, physically, nauseating.  It was weeks before I could stomach it again.  I&amp;#x27;ve been to Europe on other occasions and not had this happen, not sure why it happened this time.</text></comment>