Zwieback
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Zwieback is a type of crisp, sweetened bread, made with eggs and baked twice.
It is sliced before it is baked a second time, which produces crisp, brittle slices that closely resemble melba toast.[1] Zwieback is commonly used to feed teething children,[1] and as the first solid food for patients with an upset stomach.
The name comes from German zwei ("two") or zwie ("twi-"), and backen, meaning "to bake".[2] Zwieback hence literally translates to "twice-baked".
Zwieback originated in East Prussia, Germany. The Mennonites brought Zwieback to Russia (now Ukraine); during and after the Russian Revolution, they brought Zwieback to Canada, and other parts of the world.
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- In the 1948 film The Emperor Waltz a character is named Dr. Zwieback.
- In an episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homer the Smithers", the character Smithers remarks to his boss Mr. Burns, "...I've alphabetized your breakfast. You can start with the waffles, and work your way up to the zwieback."
- In the 1991 movie Doc Hollywood, when Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) first arrives in Grady, nurse Packer tells him there is Zwieback and Vitamin C in the cabinet.
- In "Dear Mildred", an episode of the TV series M*A*S*H, Radar O'Reilly compares his first days with Colonel Potter to visiting summers with his prim-and-proper aunt; "You can't dunk your zwieback in your Bosco."
- In the book Bored of the Rings, a parody of Lord of the Rings, zwieback is used instead of lembas bread.
- In the book "Adventures of Isabel" by Ogden Nash, the heroine, in dispatching a malevolent giant, "nibbled the zwieback that she always fed off". In 2010, Natalie Merchant sang a version of this poem, included in her 2010 two-disk production "Leave your Sleep".
- In the Baby Blues comics, Zoe mentioned "zwieback."
- In "Caving In", a song by Kimya Dawson, she sings "I'm just a piece of zwieback toast / Getting soggy in a baby's achin' mouth".
- In the 'Ramona Quimby' series zwieback is mentioned
- In the book 'Superfudge' zwieback is mentioned
- On Comedian Emo Philips' CD E=MO2, on the track "Downtown Downers Grove", a song about businesses in the small town, he talks about asking the town baker asking "Do you have a zwieback?" and she reply "No, i always slouch this way".
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