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I have to do it myself. it always baffles me how the rest of the world can live without good bread - but they do - I couldn't live without german style bread.
It's funny, as a Pole living in Germany I adapted pretty well, with some exceptions:
there is no bread "as I remember it from Poland", and I have been searching for years for something similar made locally.
And it's just a simple, rye bread like this one :
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It's funny, as a Pole living in Germany I adapted pretty well, with some exceptions:
there is no bread "as I remember it from Poland", and I have been searching for years for something similar made locally.
And it's just a simple, rye bread like this one :
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This doesn't look like rye bread - rye bread is dark.

Why not make your own rye sour dough bread - it isn't complicated once you have the starter (this takes 4-7 days though), just takes a bit of effort - because you need to stretch and fold it a couple of times and let it prove in between. When you can stretch it out to nearly "see-through" without the dough tearing, it is ready for the final proof in a bread basket - and then you can bake it. Making bread is fun, once you got some practice. I love my mixed rye-wheat sour dough bread with olives and walnuts in it and sesame seeds on top.
 
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This doesn't look like rye bread - rye bread is dark.

Why not make you own rye sour dough bread - it isn't complicated once you have the starter (this takes 4-7 days though), just takes a bit of effort - because you need to stretch and fold it a couple of times and let it prove in between. When you can stretch it out to nearly "see-through" without the dough tearing, it is ready for the final proof in a bread basket - and then you can bake it. Making bread is fun, once you got some practice. I love my mixed rye-wheat sour dough bread with olives and walnuts in it and sesame seeds on top.
Yeah. Fresh sour-dough bread is awesome. It's the standard bread here in Germany.
 
I used to live in Worcester and a friend had a house about half a mile away from the Worcester sauce factory - from memory I think it was Wednesdays were obviously anchovy boiling day, and the whole area used to smell of boiling anchovies.... 🤢
Few drops give a stew a nice middle though....
I used to work downwind from a <known brand> biscuit factory in Hayes. When they were roasting (dunno what) the smell was as close to heaven as I want to get for a while yet.
 
This doesn't look like rye bread - rye bread is dark.

Why not make your own rye sour dough bread - it isn't complicated once you have the starter (this takes 4-7 days though), just takes a bit of effort - because you need to stretch and fold it a couple of times and let it prove in between. When you can stretch it out to nearly "see-through" without the dough tearing, it is ready for the final proof in a bread basket - and then you can bake it. Making bread is fun, once you got some practice. I love my mixed rye-wheat sour dough bread with olives and walnuts in it and sesame seeds on top.
I'm very partial to sourdough bread with homemade soups, esp my parsnip & carrot (with spice) soup.
 
(yeah, science!)

(yeah, science!)
Thanks for your feedback on randomness/determinism.
There is not much to argue with there though - because on this level there are more questions, assumptions and conclusions are mostly "probably" prefixed, so I consider this topic has served it's purpose* and should be abandoned.

*I can't determine what the purpose was, because actually all I do is (pseudo)randomly subject hoping.
 
This doesn't look like rye bread - rye bread is dark.

Why not make your own rye sour dough bread - it isn't complicated once you have the starter (this takes 4-7 days though), just takes a bit of effort - because you need to stretch and fold it a couple of times and let it prove in between. When you can stretch it out to nearly "see-through" without the dough tearing, it is ready for the final proof in a bread basket - and then you can bake it. Making bread is fun, once you got some practice. I love my mixed rye-wheat sour dough bread with olives and walnuts in it and sesame seeds on top.
Yeah, it's wheat/rye mix. But for some reason it's sold as "polish rye" outside of Poland and I took this name over with picture
 
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