[klohto]

Actually, that's not correct. The controversy you might be thinking of was about Subway's bread in Ireland, where in 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that Subway's bread couldn't be legally classified as "bread" for tax purposes because it contained about 5 times more sugar than allowed under Irish law - around 10% of the flour's weight, not 10% of the total bread composition.

The Irish law stated that for bread to be considered a "staple food" (and thus qualify for tax exemption), the sugar content couldn't exceed 2% of the flour's weight. This is different from saying the bread is 10% sugar overall.

The actual sugar content in Subway bread varies, but it's typically around 5-6 grams of sugar per half a bread. That’s higher than traditional bread but lower than many other commercial ones.

[dylan604]

Yeah, well in typical ‘murican style, anything from that side of the pond is EU. The differences are too small for me to care to learn the details. All I know is that what ‘muricans call food is not what Europeans call food, and ‘muricans are wrong

[sydbarrett74]

Ireland is within the EU and uses the Euro as its currency (unlike when the UK was in the EU and stuck to the Pound Sterling), so you were never wrong.

[JumpCrisscross]

> differences are too small for me to care to learn the details

Better response than doubling down on being corrected, which makes the original comment look like a lie, might be in editing.