Germany is known for its bread culture and the traditional bread-and-butter in all its forms: whether as a snack, a Snack on the go or supper. For 20 years, even the day of the German butter bread.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Only Butter
It’s a sandwich, Bemme, Bütterken, Knifte bread with Butter has a different name. And in spite of competing Sandwiches of all kinds a classic. In 1999, the Centrale Marketing-Gesellschaft der deutschen agrarwirtschaft (CMA), said bread the last Friday in September to the day of the German Butter. The CMA no longer exists, but the feast day of the buttered cuts lives on.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Dinner
Traditionally, you eat in Germany at noon, a hot meal and in the evening there is then the so-called dinner. Bread, Butter, cheese, cold meats, belong to the basic equipment. Lush Sandwiches are nowhere to be found.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Endangered Species?
Bread and butter-the Fans even have their own Website. There will be appealed: “Save the bread-and-butter!”. The fate of the good old Sandwich is “in the age of bread rolls, Baguette, Sandwich and Croissant” in danger. Bread-and-butter connoisseurs post here recipes, art, quotes, literature, and Comics – and confess: “Yes, we are bread and butter to lubricate!”. Sometimes even (as in the above photo) with Lard.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Cut Chen
It also has something more original, for example, for Party buffets, of course. In the 1970s, the average German family spent Saturday in the evening, often in front of the TV and fed delicious sandwiches with hard-boiled eggs and gherkins decorated.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Bavarian Bread Time
The “brotzeit” is the hearty Bavarian variant, whether in the evening, with beer, on a hike or as a second Breakfast. Here, too, bread, pretzels, and Butter are essential.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Break bread
For school children is as important as ever: the break bread. Sometimes sweet and sometimes savory evidenced by the folding are sandwiches often plastered before the first big break. Adults also take you on trips and in the profession, fond of self-lubricated butter sandwiches.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Bread-and-butter is always
According to the Sunday visit to grandma, the old lady grabbed one of the children is still a “Bütterken” for the return trip. Probably the coffee table in the afternoon and in the evening bread noticed after a sumptuous lunch. And, miraculously, it was always square in the stomach.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Only Butter
It’s a sandwich, Bemme, Bütterken, Knifte bread with Butter has a different name. And in spite of competing Sandwiches of all kinds a classic. In 1999, the Centrale Marketing-Gesellschaft der deutschen agrarwirtschaft (CMA), said bread the last Friday in September to the day of the German Butter. The CMA no longer exists, but the feast day of the buttered cuts lives on.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Dinner
Traditionally, you eat in Germany at noon, a hot meal and in the evening there is then the so-called dinner. Bread, Butter, cheese, cold meats, belong to the basic equipment. Lush Sandwiches are nowhere to be found.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Endangered Species?
Bread and butter-the Fans even have their own Website. There will be appealed: “Save the bread-and-butter!”. The fate of the good old Sandwich is “in the age of bread rolls, Baguette, Sandwich and Croissant” in danger. Bread-and-butter connoisseurs post here recipes, art, quotes, literature, and Comics – and confess: “Yes, we are bread and butter to lubricate!”. Sometimes even (as in the above photo) with Lard.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Cut Chen
It also has something more original, for example, for Party buffets, of course. In the 1970s, the average German family spent Saturday in the evening, often in front of the TV and fed delicious sandwiches with hard-boiled eggs and gherkins decorated.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Bavarian Bread Time
The “brotzeit” is the hearty Bavarian variant, whether in the evening, with beer, on a hike or as a second Breakfast. Here, too, bread, pretzels, and Butter are essential.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Break bread
For school children is as important as ever: the break bread. Sometimes sweet and sometimes savory evidenced by the folding are sandwiches often plastered before the first big break. Adults also take you on trips and in the profession, fond of self-lubricated butter sandwiches.
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The German formula of: Butter+bread
Bread-and-butter is always
According to the Sunday visit to grandma, the old lady grabbed one of the children is still a “Bütterken” for the return trip. Probably the coffee table in the afternoon and in the evening bread noticed after a sumptuous lunch. And, miraculously, it was always square in the stomach.
It is very simple: bread and Butter. Finished with the traditional German bread-and-butter is. Popular classics, despite all the competition from Sandwich and co.
In the year 2017, approximately 98.5% of all households, bread is bought according to Statista, the average per household is 44.1 kg. Wheat, rye, spelt and oat bread, with and without cores, and also like nuts — registered varieties of bread in Germany there are about 3200, so the German bread Institute. And in 2014, UNESCO added the German bread culture even in the list of intangible cultural heritage.
Even more content about German traditions and peculiarities, see dw.com/MeettheGermans_de.