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The story
A thread titled “I’m middle-aged but I still can’t quit sweet bread rolls” popped up on 5ch’s Hello! Project board, drawing a wave of sympathetic and self-reproachful replies. Sweet bread rolls (kashi-pan) are high in calories, and since wheat flour is said to be addictive, many posters said that eating one just makes you crave another. The discussion ranged from personal coping strategies — a self-imposed under-300-kcal rule, buying a home bread maker, or swapping in whole-wheat bread with tuna mayo — to warnings about pairing sweet bread with juice, and speculation that Hello! Project idols eat sweet bread too but stay slim thanks to their youth and busy schedules. Opinions also split over just how long basal metabolism holds up before it starts to decline.
What people said
No Sun-mi (a cream-filled bun) in that lineup? You looking down on me or something?
Wheat flour is addictive, you know
Straight down the road to diabetes
Back in school my lunch was like that every day and I was fine
Now that my basal metabolism has totally tanked, there's no way I could do that
Apparently it's recently been discovered that basal metabolism doesn't decline until your 60s
are probably eating like that
and then I got fat
"Eat whatever you want, just not sweet bread and juice"
That's just because you're eating a ton of it
No need to quit
If you're in a position to eat it, don't hold back — eat, eat, eat all you want
I prefer the savory kind
It slows down the rise in blood sugar
Sweet bread is way more evil than people think
as a dessert after their bento
Not like us old folks
It's way better than mass-produced sweet bread
Slathering on tons of butter, dusting it with sugar, and washing it down with black coffee is the best
Drenching it in maple syrup works too lol
but since I ate frozen okonomiyaki after dinner, I held off on the yakisoba-bread
guess I've got some self-control after all
cream puffs got me too
I figured it's just cream, so it'd be fine
but I gained weight right away
I don't eat sweet bread even once a year
more like once every five years
Probably just an NG (ignore-list) misfire
Background and Talking Points
Many “kashi-pan” (sweet bread rolls) products combine refined wheat flour with sugar and fat, and they’re frequently singled out in nutritional counseling as foods that spike blood sugar quickly. The thread’s claim that “wheat flour is addictive” is a widely repeated piece of folk wisdom, but experts are divided on whether it can medically be equated with addiction, and it remains largely anecdotal. There was also a post claiming basal metabolism “doesn’t decline until your 60s,” but this too is just one theory — the degree and timing of age-related metabolic decline varies considerably from person to person. Notably, rather than swearing off sweet bread entirely, many posters in the thread favored finding ways to manage the habit, such as a self-imposed rule of staying under 300 kcal, switching to a home bread maker, or substituting whole-wheat bread with tuna mayo.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “I’m middle-aged but I can’t quit sweet bread.”
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