Talk:Butterbrot

Japan
Why Japan? Is there anything special about Japan that would make it more butterbread-forein than other countries?? --Maximilianh 08:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed merge
"Butterbrot" is nothing other than a sandwich, a slice of bread. The fact that you "can put butter on it" doesn't make it any difference. Duden, one of the better German dictionaries, describes it as "a slice of bread covered with butter or margarine". The article itself states that the only difference with a sandwich is in the sourdough that's used. Well, Dutch bakers for example do not even use that. I propose a merge to bread which already has a "germany" section into which it can be integrated.Rex 21:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. I think everyone will. Just have a look on the page Sandwich and you will see why: There are TONS of entries that describe various kinds of bread with some kind of topping, since bread is the basic staple food in the Western world, there various kinds, too many to put them all on the "bread" page. There are pages for Swedish, french and Open sandwiches, why not one for Butterbrot? Dutch bakers have nothing to do with "Butterbrot" as this page is describing the German variant and not the Dutch one. --Maximilianh 15:24, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Don't merge. Butterbrot is not bread, it's bread with something on it or in it. Therefore, it's a sandwich (albeit open-faced). I'm going to remove the merge notice - six months is plenty of time for it to be there. Jaksmata 13:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)


 * As I'm tracing what "Бутерброд" on a picture indicates, I don't see any difference between sandwich and the butterbrot. Is the article to be merged into Sandwich? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Appletrees (talk • contribs) 14:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Dutch translation
This article is about the German Butterbrot. We don't need a Dutch translation for a German word in the English-speaking Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.176.224.117 (talk) 22:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Why it always lands with the buttered side down
Mythbusters has also investigated this myth. I think the most convincing result they had was that a typical slice of bread (they used toasts with butter) dropped "asymmetrical" from a typical table height would typically get exactly enough spin to make half a revolution before hitting the floor, and thus land with the buttered side down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobixen (talk • contribs) 23:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Just attach the butterbrot on the back of a cat (butterside out of course) and throw the whole construction into the air...--92.226.21.18 (talk) 23:25, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

bread and butter???
Most countries in Europe eat bread with butter. Should there be a page for each of them? 78.29.170.229 (talk) 22:34, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Comparison with sandwiches completely unsourced OR, urban legend section unencyclopedic hogwash, decline section mostly unsourced OR
About the 'comparison': No citations whatsoever... But since it's all unsourced original research littered with inaccuracies and assumptions, possibly extrapolated from personal experience, I'd much rather purge most of it than address it.

Just as an example: Wurst-, Käse-, Marmeladen- or Whateverbrot is described as terminology used in Austria but not in Germany. Guess what: Germans say that as well. We don't all say 'Butterbrot mit whatever'. Got a butterbrot? Put some cheese on it? Voila: KÄSEBROT. Not rocket science, not purely Austrian, the bread being buttered before topped with anything else is pretty much a given. The butterbrot toppings for breakfast tend to be sweet? Who says so? Your personal experience doesn't count. And neither does mine. As long as an account of said butterbrot experiences has not been published by a third party.

So what to do? 88.68.183.198 (talk) 01:18, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Edited to add: UL section has no place on WP, decline is pure personal observation. Source it or let it go. Almost all of the article is an unverified opinion piece. 'Well meant' and 'well done' are often diametrically opposed, as evidenced by this article. 88.68.183.198 (talk) 01:46, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

The term "Butterbrot" itself is just a generalisation (just like "sandwich"). Nowadays it is only used in sayings and occasions, when the general application of an item is bound with varieties of "Butterbrot(en)". Being a german myself, I use my regional word for it; which happens to be "Stulle". If someone offers a german something called a "sandwich", he might pass a triangular-shaped version of a so called "Doppel-" or "Klappstulle" (doubled- or clapped-bread), made from toast(ish) whitebread and diligently filled with inappropriate appearing loads of good foods, twhich would provide enough ingredients for two or three "Butterbrot(e)". Since this is quite a cultural matter maybe the lemma "Butterbrot" should be kept as the original concept of the sandwich? I do observe a little tendency between those two dishes, because the older is mainly focussing on the bread (the german approach...), whilst the other (or younger) dish is about to distract from the lack (referring to that well spotted relation between the culturation of sandwiches and the utter decline of everyday bakery-craftmanship) of proper bread at all! The last time another german offered my a sandwich was quite awkward... until I learned she was from sweden. Besides: there is no decline of any dish that is nutritious and practicable to handle!--78.51.148.38 (talk) 20:03, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

wrong information
 butterbrot (different from "belegtes Brot" - with cheese, sausages etc.) NONSENSE (I'm German, I should know)"Butterbrot" and "belegtes Brot" are synonymous - some people put cheese or cold cuts on their bread even without butter and it would pass for a Butterbrot or "belegtes Brot".Sausages on bread?! Very unlikely! And it wouldn't pass for a Butterbrot.


 * The previous post is correct: "Butterbrot" is the same as "belegtes Brot".--176.32.40.133 (talk) 14:45, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Russians also call open sandwiches buterbrod regardless of whether it is butter on them or something on them. TheImperios (talk) 19:57, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Butterbrot in Austria = bread + butter. and NOTHING ELSE. add e.g. cheese -> Käsebrot. or cold cuts -> Wurstbrot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:871:25C:9E5F:44F0:1B3D:EB2D:7C51 (talk) 23:49, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Mistake
"Another very popular bread type is Brötchen" is wrong. Brötchen may sound like it is a little bread, but those are two completely different things. Source: I'm German — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.168.26.24 (talk) 16:06, 11 April 2022 (UTC)