BlindDeafRat
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Dyeing rye bread with malt or syrup to darken the color is quite common, and you can find it in a lot of rye bread recipes. Example with malt, it can also be used to counter the sourness found in a sourdough starter. Note, that the example is pure rye, but the color comes from the malt or syrup, rather than the flour.
Otherwise, as a home baker, I can see that the crust is way too soft to what I'd expect from rye, and in general, I don't see the appeal of buying pre-sliced bread.
If you have an oven, and some time, I'd recommend trying to make some rye bread, because it's incredibly easy. Here's a recipe for a pan bread, and here's one that has a more traditional round shape.
But otherwise, ideally this kind of false marketing would be legislated against, and I think the EU forces this to a degree, while the US doesn't care.
Not writing related, but after looking at a lot of fan art, it's quite easy to tell whether it's a male or female artist. There's a few tells, the main one probably being the way that women tend to put more attention into eyes, and especially hands. The more detailed the hands, the more likely the artist is female. Also the way they draw bodies, women tend to draw different things. For example when drawing "thick" women, a man will draw her with wide with a flat stomach, while a woman will include belly fat that's hanging off.
I don't read very many female writers, and is that the female writers I do read, tend to write in a very gendered fashion, something like josei, for example.
Like I don't think I could necessarily clock Bujold's writing as female. I don't think I could clock Harry Potter as having been written by a woman either, but the last time I read it I was a child, so maybe I'd notice it today.
Overall, I think it's very noticeable in art than and sometimes noticeable in writing. But it really depends on what is being written. Romantasy is written primarily by women, and so the tropes themselves are coded in a specific way, so even if a man would write according to the norms, would you be able to tell? I wouldn't, because I don't read the genre at all.
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