Bread and butter

Bread and butter may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Bread and Butter, 1914 play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill
• Bread and Butter, 1966 play written by Cecil Philip Taylor for the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh
  • Bread and Butter, 1966 play produced in the UK in 2003 by Headlong British theater company and directed by Mark Rosenblatt
• Bread and Butter Collective (a group of print makers located in Long Island City, Queens), member group of Representing NYC
• "Bread and Butter Women", 1935 unpublished play written by Australian author Patrick White
  • "Bread and Butter Women", 1935 play world premier on 22 Jan 1935 produced by Beryl Bryant
• Brot und Butter (German for "Bread and Butter"), municipal gallery in the Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany
• His Bread and Butter, 1916 film produced by Triangle Film Corporation with American actors Bobby Dunn and Robert P. Kerr
• The Basket of Bread, 1926 painting by Salvador Dalí depicting four slices of bread and butter

Books and literature

• Bread and Butter; Bread and Roses, article by Bernard Weisberger (American Heritage, September 1998) about American Union leader Douglas Fraser
• Bread and Butterfly, insect from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
• "El pan nuestro" (English: "Bread and butter"), 1941 book of poems by Argentine poet José Pedroni

Food

Items containing bread

• Bread and butter pudding, traditional dessert popular in British cuisine
• Biskotso (Filipino: bread and butter), baked bread topped with butter and sugar, or garlic in some cases
• Butterbrot (English: Bread and butter), sliced bread topped with butter (or sometimes another topping) from Germany
• Fairy bread, bread and butter covered with hundreds-and-thousands (sprinkles)
• Garlic bread, bread and butter topped with garlic
• Smörgås (Swedish for "bread and butter"), open sandwich made from bread and butter topped with cold cuts or other toppings
• Smørrebrød (originally smør og brød; Danish for "butter and bread"), buttered rugbrød (Danish rye bread) with other toppings (usually cold cuts)
• Tea sandwich, bread and butter sandwich with the crust cut away, an afternoon teatime favorite in the UK
• Voileipä (Finnish for "bread and butter"), open sandwich made from ruisleipä (Finnish rye bread)
• Brun maska (Hindi for "bread and butter"), served in Irani cafes in Mumbai

Other uses

• Bread and butter plate, plate five to six inches in diameter for individual servings of bread and butter
• Bread and butter pickles, type of pickled cucumber
• Bread 'N Butter, brand of pickled cucumbers marketed by Claussen pickles
• Bread and butter cut (also called cross-rib roast), a boneless cut of chuck steak
• Bread+Butter, an Atlantic City casual dining restaurant in The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa
• "B & B", Diner lingo for bread and butter
• "Dough well done with cow to cover", Diner lingo for bread and butter

Geography

• "Bread and butter state", nickname for Minnesota, USA

Hobby and sport

• Bread and Butter (playboating), combo move in the kayak and canoe sport of playboating
• "Bread and butter", sports term meaning a player's (or team's) greatest or most reliable skill (or play)
• Bread and butter construction, form of wooden ship model construction using layers of planks

Language

• "Bread and butter" (superstition), superstitious blessing or charm
• Bread-and-butter letter, a letter of thanks for hospitality

Music

• Bread and Butter, folk music duo with 1984 song "Moon Eyes" written by Akiko Kobayashi
  • The Adventures of Bread and Butter, Vol. 1, 1991 album by Bread and Butter with "24/7" song featuring Lalah Hathaway
• Bread and Butter, 2008 album by Rattex, produced by Damian Stephens on the Pioneer Unit Records label

Songs

• "Bread and Butter" (The Newbeats song), 1964 song by The Newbeats
  • "Bread and Butter", cover by Stars on 45 on Long Play Album
  • "Bread and Butter", cover by Devo on Pioneers Who Got Scalped
  • "Bread and Butter", partially re-written version used as the theme song for the TV series Baby Talk
• "Bread and Butter", 1975 song by Ivor Cutler on Velvet Donkey
• "Bread And Butter", 1983 single by Robert John
• "Bread and Butter", 1990 song by The Waitresses on The Best of The Waitresses
• "Bread and Butter", 1994 single flip side by Harry Clinton of How High the Moon
• "Bread & Butter", 2005 song by Beanie Sigel on The B. Coming
• "Bread & Butter", 2006 song by The Roots on Game Theory
• "Bread and Butter", 2008 song by Goodlyfe Crew
• "Bread and Butter", 2009 song by N.U.M.B on Salt of the Earth
• "Bread 'n Butter", 1961 B-side of the single Short Skirt by The Lovables and Bobby Sheen
• "Bread and Butter Man", 1964 song by The Nashville Teens

Science

• Bread and butter, colloquial name for the yellow flowering plant Linaria vulgaris
• Bread and butter appearance, a medical condition caused by uremic pericarditis

Television

• Bread N' Butter, Filipino television show
• The Bread And Butter, episode 1, season 2 of Flying the Flag
• Bread and Butter Pudding, episode 5 of Posh Nosh