Bread

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Full of bugs. Smells like fish and old milk. Was eighteen dollars for some reason. Now it's... I don't know, a dollar? Free? — Mann Co. advertisement for Eighteen-dollar bread

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Bread is an object that appears when players teleport. Several seconds after spawning, the bread prop will disappear. There are currently nine different bread models, which will appear randomly.

Update history

June 11, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Bread now occasionally spawns when using a Teleporter.

Gallery

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  Baguette.

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  Burnt slice of bread. Only one side is burnt.

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  Slice of cinnamon-swirl bread.

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  Cornbread.

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  Crumpet.

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  Plain loaf.

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  Pretzel.

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  Slice of bread ration.

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  Loaf of Borodinsky bread.

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  A loaf biting Medic.

Trivia

• Bread was hinted at multiple times before its appearance in the game itself:
  • Bread was first mentioned in the Lecture Valley page.
  • Bread was also shown on the Adult Swim Extravaganza blog post. In the top right corner directly above the Scout, a pair of baguettes are visible.
  • The icon for the Summer Appetizer Crate contains two baguettes.
  • The Two Cities Update page for Rottenburg shows Archimedes flying away with a pretzel.
• The Bread appeared in the short Expiration Date as mutated sentient loafs, and later became a monstrously large tentacled beast.
  • Only the plain loaf appeared in the short.
• All bread props can be destroyed with the Short Circuit and are also able to be air-blasted, similar to projectiles.
• Before June 17th, breads appear very rarely.

Bugs

• If any piece of bread is dropped into the bomb pits of Upward or Badwater Basin, the bread will act as a Payload cart and cap the last point, causing an explosion.
  • The Payload cart will physically vanish but can still dispense health/ammo, be pushed (and blocked), and cap the remaining points.