To refer to the consecrated Eucharist as bread is time-honored practice. For one thing, Jesus himself did. St. Thomas Aquinas composed Panis Angelicus.
We have to excuse our Protestant critics when they report on what they see; the problem is, we don’t worship what we see, but rather Whom we know.
Our pastor was referring to the lack of reverence that is all too common among inadequately catechized Catholics.