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What does bread mean in your culture? (What does it represent in your country's culture?)

  1. family relations, traditions, religion (body of Jesus)
  2. It is the main food that unites the family.In earlier times when bread was mostly baked at home it was a sort of family ritual.If a child dropped a slice of bread,he was taught to pick it up immediately to ask for forgiveness by kissing it and later eat it.The father of the family as the main bread winner was given a loaf of bread at the table and he sliced it and gave each member of the family a slice of bread.
  3. its the main dish, its deep in our Lithuanian traditions.
  4. basic meal
  5. food...hunger...
  6. yes, black bread, it represents welcome
  7. Bread is one of the most important thing in our culture, it a sign of unity ( in the old times it was a trdition that when all family gathers around a dinner table, the head of the family shares bread with everyone).
  8. hard work
  9. Kind of food, bread is making by using deep tradicional recipe.
  10. Making bread has deep traditions in Lithuanian cuisine. Bread used to be (and sometimes) still is included in welcoming guests (together with salt and sometimes vodka).