White Bread History

White bread, something everyone from the poorest of the poor to the rich elite of this world eats is for breakfast lunch and dinner. This food item has been a staple in American’s lives from beginning of the settlement of this great nation. It has had the journey of being religiously important, a status of wealth and class, to finally its importance to health of soldiers and citizens of low income. This simple food item became an important part of our food culture today and through this progression it has become increasingly valuable to the political culture of our world as well. The importance of white bread as a symbol of wealth and status in a community cannot be understated. White flour first off was more expensive to obtain for lower class families so they mostly ate darer breads like rye bread, therefore making white bread made with white flour something only eaten by the wealthy. This is not very true anymore because through many years of change and experimentation white flour is now much less expensive then darker flour reversing the roles almost entirely. During the time of the colonization of the American the middle colony was where wheat was grown, though back then “it never approached the status of a cash crop,” in the area this was one of the few locations where wheat prospered …show more content…
Its connection to political and wealthy leaders can no longer been ignored. It has been for ages a silent tool of the upper class as a way to show off their status as well as control the out comes of the lower class. No one thought that bread would become a tool to feed nutrients to the lower income bracket or that it would be useful as a way to remind soldiers of their homes reminding them thusly of what they were fighting for. This seemly unimportant food item has been at the center of our culture for decades and its importance still hasn’t died down