On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:04:38 -0500, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 3/1/2014 1:50 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:03:06 -0500, S Viemeister wrote:
>>> On 2/28/2014 4:19 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>> "Brooklyn1" > wrote
>>>>> "Ophelia" wrote:
>>>>>> I thought the term 'wheat bread' was used around here. I am sure
>>>>>> I've seen posters use it.
>>>>> Bread is automatically wheat unless stipulated otherwise such as rye,
>>>>> oat, corn, etc.
>>>> Yes, agreed and if they had said, 'wholewheat/wholemeal I wouldn't have
>>>> given it any thought.
>>>>
>>> I've been in a number of NJ diners where the waitress asks "white or
>>> wheat". To many people wheat=brown - they don't seem to understand that
>>> the white stuff is also wheat...
>>
>> That is how they've been referred to for decades. White and wheat.
>>
>> What do you call white sandwich bread, then? White. We all know
>> they're made out of wheat. Sheesh.
>>
>Logically, that would be "white or brown". _Not_ "white or wheat".

On a restaurant menu it'd logically be white or wholewheat...
wholewheat doesn't nececesarilly translate to 100% wholewheat... in
fact very few restaurants serve 100% wholewheat, they serve the least
expensive wholewheat they can get away with.