• It takes 9 seconds for a combine harvester to harvest enough wheat to make 70 loaves of bread
• A family of four could live 10 years off the bread produced by one acre of wheat
• Breaking bread is a universal sign of peace
• Bread is probably the one food eaten by people of every race, culture and religion
• Murphy’s Law dictates that buttered bread will always land buttered side down
• Legend has it that whoever eats the last piece of bread has to kiss the cook
• Bread is not fattening, it’s what you put on it that is fattening
• The great fire of London started in a bakers shop
• The workers who built the pyramids of Egypt were paid in bread
• The first commercial toaster was introduced by GE in 1911
• The fastest "bun" in the West goes to a team of bakers from Wheat Montana Farms and Bakery who reclaimed the Guinness World Record in 1995. They harvested and milled wheat from the field and then mixed, scaled, shaped and baked a loaf in exactly eight minutes, 13 seconds.
• The longest loaf ever made measured 9,200 metres, the equivalent length of 100 football pitches
• Cut bread at both ends and the devil will fly over the house
• Leave bread and coffee under a house to prevent ghosts from calling
• Sliced bread was introduced in the 1930s
• 96% of UK households buy bread, whereas only 95% of UK households buy toilet paper
• A paste of bread, pepper and crushed garlic, applied to the face, relieves toothache
• The sandwich commemorates the Earl of Sandwich – a famous gambler whose logic was that a slice of meat eaten between 2 slices of bread could be eaten without having to leave the gambling table for a meal

can you add any to this list??
 

• To break bread
• The bread line
• Know which side your bread is buttered on
• Breadwinner
• Bread is the staff of life
• Best thing since sliced bread
• It’s my bread and butter
• The upper crust
• To earn a crust
• It’s a lot of dough