"BLACK BREAD."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 330, 4 March 1910, Page 6

"BLACK BREAD."

The London Spectator takes Mr. Lloyd George to task for his comments, and says it, is most offensive that the second Minister of the British Cabinet should speak on the German people's food as he has done. Mr. Lloyd George's sneers are cheap, for he should know that the German eats "black" bread not oecnuse he cannot afford better, but because he prefers it to any other. It is made of three parts rye and one pan wheat, is eaten bv all classes, and is' said to be far mora nutritious than our wiiite bread. A London baker who makes this German bread says he supplies it regularly to the King and Queen, wlio are very fond of it. "Not only do the great majority of Germans refuse to eat any other than "black" bread, but many of my English customers who have live'd on the Continent prefer it to the white loaf. My sale in London varies l from 2000 to 5000 loaves weekly, and I find that once poor people have given the bread a trial they seldom afterwards ask for the white loaf. Black rye bread is not only in general use in the wheat-growing parts of Germany, but it ie also popular in Holland. Mr. Lloyd George has little ground to congratulate himself or the British people on the (jllality of the loaf they fiftl. The white-' ness which he demands is' obtained at the cost of those nutritive elements which j*ave its tinge of yellow to oldfashioned home-baked bread; and medical science has repeatedly and authoritatively condemned trie excessively white bread now generally sold as being inferior in nourishing power and especially prejudicial to the healthy development of growing children.—Exchange.