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The original dinner-table trap, lulling you full before the food even arrives.
means A basket holding bread or rolls served at a table; figuratively, a region that produces large quantities of grain, or slangily, the stomach.
from A plain compound of "bread" and "basket," both old English household words — "bread" from Old English bread, "basket" possibly from a Romance source. The literal woven container came first; the "grain-growing region" sense (as in a nation's breadbasket) grew from the idea of a land that feeds many, and the boxing-slang "stomach" sense leaned on the basket as the place where bread ends up.
- slang meaning
- Old boxing term for the stomach, prime punch target
- agricultural title
- Whole regions called breadbaskets for feeding nations
- restaurant economics
- Free bread exists to make you order drinks
- keep-warm trick
- Cloth liners trap heat, not just look rustic
fertile crescent — ancient region spanning modern iraq, syria, lebanon, israel, palestine, jordan, and egypt where wheat and barley were first domesticated around 10,000 bce
american midwest — produces about 40% of the world's corn and significant wheat; iowa, illinois, and indiana lead us grain output
ukraine — supplies 10-15% of global wheat exports and is the world's leading sunflower oil producer