[rdiddly]

I think you missed all the good bakeries. America is a big place. Even the West Coast is big enough that I'm gonna come right out and assert that you probably haven't seen it all.

It's best to appreciate a thing for what it is, rather than what it's not. America sucks at being Europe just like an apple is a terrible pen.

But if we talk about the actual article which is what I came to do and got distracted, then I would absolutely expect that government subsidies for wheat, plus economic constraints since 2008, would tend to combine to produce large quantities of shitty bread. I've all but stopped eating it so I don't really know first-hand, but that's how I would theorize.