List of references to guns and butter in popular culture

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.

*Gang of Four's classic 1979 album ' includes the song "Guns Before Butter."
*In the 2001 John Singleton movie Baby Boy, Ving Rhames' character claims there are "two types of niggas, niggas with guns... and niggas with butter."
*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 12th episode of the 4th Season of The West Wing is titled "Guns Not 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 Blue Scholars, a Seattle Hip-Hop group released an album in 2008 titled "Butter and Gun$"
*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.
*One promise of the Rhinoceros Party of Canada was to ban guns and butter, since both kill.
*The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter is a computer game by Chris Crawford concentrating on the macroeconomic relationship between military & civilian spending.
*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"

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