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

  1. in culture, hmm...in Latvia, I think lots of singles eat bread, I have observing people when ever I'm at the super market. (observing people and deducting facts is one of my hobbies) Specially single ladies after work they, come they take brown and flavoured bread(probably garlic or carrot), but mainly small half bread. but mainly the worker men, who do lots of labour work, buy white bread, which is cheaper, they usually go for the loaf which is over 400g, and I've noticed they buy cheese too :D and some people buy mostly butter. Old men and women also go for cheaper sliced white bread. But only people well dressed (old) go for the brown bread here. middle aged men go for unsliced handmade bread(no sliced), i think they're tastier, little roasted, but you need to chew a lot. But smell is great. the students(guys) who live alone also go for white bread, but student from Germany and other western EU countries go for brown bread with flavors ;) For me, I eat all of these nothing special, just change the habbit time to time, but I buy 2,3 loaves of bread at ones. So that I don't have to go out every day for food, can stay inside. in Sri Lanka (brief note, i thought it might be helpful to you): bread is not a main food, people eat bread just as a kind of light diet, even after dinner, in the night they might eat a few slices od bread, and in the morning. specially university students survive a lot. But bread doesn't have so much importance as a main food, but still lots of people just buy a loaf of bread while they're on the way home after work, may be just in case, may be they love the smell of the hot bread...
  2. BREAD represents the family food
  3. Hospitality and everyday meal.
  4. Food and life
  5. it's important for dinner or when we go hiking. alao, eaten for breakfast and with soup.
  6. Wellbeing
  7. As far as I know, bread was used together with salt as greeting for the guests at the doorstep. Baking bread was also a part or household routine women were responsible for. And, nowadays, Lithuania is one of those very few countries one can get real black bread from.
  8. Main food
  9. well it's kind of national product, thuo not everyone remembers it nowdays. For some time and some people it was the only thing that reminded people their country :)
  10. Juoda duona laikoma skalsos ir namu simboliu "su duona ir druska priimami jaunavedziai sugrize i namus"