The german word butterbrot (literally: butter bread = bread with butter) describes a slice of bread topped with butter. the slice of bread could be served with cheese, sweet toppings or a slice of sausage and it is still called butterbrot. the words in formal and colloquial german and the different dialects for butterbrot (different from belegtes brot - with cheese, sausages etc.), simply brot ("bread"), butterstulle, stulle, schnitte (all three low german/berlinerisch dialect), botteramm (colognian dialect, cf. dutch boterham), bütterken (lower rhine dialect) to bemme (upper saxon german) or knifte (ruhrdeutsch). although it is increasingly replaced by other foods, it remains a common st...

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