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Yeah, American bread shocked me when I got there the first time. Sugar in bread is wild to me. WILD!!!! I was genuinely, deeply shocked at sweet bread.

The stuff you get for a euro here is a basic white sliced pan (no sugar). It's....fine. The kids like it for toast and sandwiches and I'm not averse to it. They have multigrain or freshly baked (that day) brown soda bread and a slicing machine which would be my preference and that is around the $3 / €2.50 mark but I can't justify buying it just for myself. Nothing costs anywhere remotely near $5.

I recall the US being cheaper for groceries and food in general when I was living there but that was only for 4 months in the late 90's. I wonder if you've been harder hit by inflation in the intervening years than we have in Europe.

edit: I was curious so went off to look. The answer is yes. For groceries you guys have had higher inflation since I was there (roughly +110% versus roughly +70% in the EU). Interesting stuff.