[frutiger]

I moved to NYC five years ago from London. The bread in most bodegas or smaller stores is usually very bad (tastes like cake, or tastes of nothing). Thankfully there are many dedicated bakeries or farmers markets etc. where you can get bread that has an interesting flavour.

In the UK, most stores have a range of breads from flavourless (plain white, for example) to more expensive but at least flavourful.

[dingaling]

Furthermore the pre-packaged bread in the USA has an eerily long life.

Most Eurobread is suitable only for toasting by the second day, and inedible by the third, whereas the loaves we bought in Jewel's and Dominicks were still soft after a week. Bizarre.