List of references to guns and butter in popular culture

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Reference to the dichotomy of guns/butter in popular culture, originates from politics and economics and comes in various forms as guns and butter, guns over butter, guns or butter etc.

  • The San Francisco jam band, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, has a song titled Guns or Butter - an anti-war song with the line "less guns, more butter."
  • The Prodigy's Grammy-winning album The Fat of the Land CD-booklet asks if a nation should choose guns or butter. The text reads: "Would you rather have butter or guns? Shall we import Lard or Steel? Let me tell you -- Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat."
  • The first album of artist rapper C-Rayz Walz, Ravipops, contains the song "Guns and butter."
  • Smoke and Mirrors, a 2005 album released by rapper O.C., contains a song called "Guns and butter".
  • KPFA Radio 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California has a show called "Guns and Butter," which investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics.
  • The song "Industrial Lies," on Cybotron's album Clear, contains the line "You take the butter from the table, use the money, buy a gun; You think the status quo will be there when you're done."
  • The concept also has application in many turn based strategy games and some real time strategy games, as many such games entail simulated simplistic economies involving player decisions to invest in infrastructure and resource gathering or military units.
  • In the 2009-2010 season of the Dalhousie University Intramural Co-ed Open Rec Hockey League, the league Champions team name was "Guns and Butter"[2]

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