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Bread crumbs or breadcrumbs (regional variants: breading crispies) are small particles of dry bread used for breading or crumbing foods topping casseroles stuffing poultry thickening stews adding inexpensive bulk to meatloaves and similar foods and making a crisp and crunchy coating for fried foods especially breaded cutlets like tonkatsu and schnitzel. The Japanese variety of bread crumbs is called panko.