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>>That's from the mistaken notion that men should fight against bread and win.
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>>Having tried the bread over there, I can see where the mistake comes from :).
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>Good lord, again with the bread? ;-)

Bread is no cause for inserting religion. Tomatoes may be, the experience of biting into one comes close to it.

>Maybe I should book a flight to Serbia just for the bread.

Actually, I'm mostly dissatisfied with the standard bread here too, they've got americanized meanwhile - it's packed and sliced, lacks gluten so it crumbles pretty soon, and most of the dough is what was reserved for buns, too white, and the crust is not crunchy, but sinewy instead.

But then good bread can still be found. Best of all, no caraway in any of the rye bread - either local or the Russian recipe. Whoever told you guys there that Russian (or German) rye bread must have caraway in it, just lied to suit their own taste (or interests - whenever there's lot of spice in something, it's suspect of covering the inferior ingredients).

Also enjoying the much greater variety in dried meat products, that would put your deli to shame. Dried neck, Prague ham (no water added!), švargla (pieces of meat and bacon in aspic, then wrapped as a salami), tongue švargla (same, but just tongues, no bacon), tea sausage (originally Kranjska, then renamed for no good reason), mortadella (Italian recipe, a better kind of bologna but about 9" in diameter, with whole pepper grains, cut thin)... and we're only halfway through the assortment.

And then real cheese, with much more variety, although it seems to be boiled here too, but then there are a dozen kinds of young cheese, not just cottage, feta and ricotta. And real beer (which is of no interest to you, just mentioning). And all the local mineral waters - I just had to buy one within minutes after landing. And fruit juices - peach, blackberry, blueberry. As the old ad said, "we don't make juices, we squeeze the fruit", and they were right.

Wife and daughter agree that most of the food tastes better - milk, cheese, tomatoes, apricots, even potatoes. One thing that's worse is pasta - it gets all sticky when boiled and turns rather shapeless. They seem to omit some ingredient - eggs or gluten, I guess - but we'll find a good one.