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Wait wait wait hold up.....a crepe is *bread*?
Comment by VoilaVoilaWashington at 03/03/2025 at 21:20 UTC
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Bread is an annoying culinary term, like so many, that is kinda "you know it when you see it." Why is banana bread a bread but carrot cake is a cake? Why isn't a muffin a bread? Could you make a muffin-bread?
The flatbreads of the world vary massively in how they're produced, from baking to frying to searing on a flat top to steaming. This is the same issue that we see with silly questions like whether a hot dog is a sandwich - good luck finding a definition of sandwich that everyone agrees on, that excludes things we'd all agree are a sandwich and excludes everything that isn't. Get a turkey sandwich at Subway and they don't cut it all the way through, so now it's not a sandwich? But a slightly deeper cut and it is? That seems silly.
There are many such terms in every language, because language is generally about conveying a general idea, not precise communication.
So sure, you can say that a crepe isn't a bread because it's fried. So naan isn't a bread? Bannock/frybread isn't? Pita? Etc.
Maybe it's not because it's sweet. Fine, so it's the addition of sugar? Most bread has some. What's the threshold? And what about a savoury crepe?
The only sensible solution is to say that it's a fuzzy definition, and it's up to you whether a crepe meets the cutoff.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/03/2025 at 21:15 UTC
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