bread baskets

Dinner table containers

A bread basket is a container for serving bread at table.

By extension, a bread basket is a region that produces abundant grain—the American Midwest is often called the nation's bread basket.

In older slang, bread basket meant the stomach: He took a punch right in the bread basket.

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fresh · granaries · farm belt · heartland · slice · sourdough · tummy · rattan · abundance · rye · loaf · Great Plains · ciabatta · wheat · baguette · focaccia · multigrain · gluten free

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Opposites
tableware function

bread basketsbutter dishes

Covered holders for spread

gravy boats · dessert plates · ice buckets · salt cellars · napkin holders

body region

bread basketsextremities

Body's outermost parts

head · limbs · noggin · hands · feet

agricultural productivity

bread basketswastelands

Uncultivable, empty lands

deserts · badlands · arid zones · tundra · food deserts

Family

breadbasket, breadbaskets

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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G