The Irish Supreme court has ruled that the bread served at Subway – a US sandwich food chain with branches in more than 100 countries – cannot be defined as bread.
Under Ireland’s Value-Added Tax Act of 1972 it cannot even be defined as a staple food, according to the Irish Independent, because it contains too much sugar.
The ruling came after an appeal brought before the court by Subway franchisee Bookfinders Ltd. The case rested on whether the bread for Subway’s sandwiches counts as a staple food and therefore is VAT-exempt.
This is some stupid shit to put before a Supreme Court, imo.
I can't be sure, but I wonder if they jacked up the sugar content to make up for the fact that they were coerced into removing a harmless chemical - azodicarbonamide - from their bread because of the batshit insane rantings of scientifically-ignorant scaremonger "The Food Babe" when she stupidly called it "yoga mat bread."
All the chemical does is release bubbles of CO2 gas when heated, which makes bread lighter and fluffier and has been used in breadmaking for decades (if not at least a century).