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 occasionally appears when players teleport or die. Several seconds after spawning, the bread prop will disappear. There are currently nine different bread models, which will appear randomly. Bread-related weapons are one of the main focuses of the Love & War Update.

Update history

June 11, 2014 Patch

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

June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)

• Map Fixes
  • Updated pl_upward
    • Fixed physics debris triggering the Payload cart's finale explosion

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.

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.
  • One of the RED Team's affiliated companies is RED Bread, which was prominently featured as RED team's cover in the Expiration Date short.
• The plain bread loaf appeared in the short Expiration Date as mutated sentient bread, and later became a monstrously large tentacled beast.
• All bread props can be destroyed with the Short Circuit and are also able to be air-blasted, similar to projectiles.
• Before June 17th, bread appeared very rarely.
• After the Love & War Update, there is a small chance bread will pop out of an Engineer's Exit Teleporter when used. In the Expiration Date video, RED teleports bread.
• The 9 types of bread seem to correspond to the 9 different classes. For example, the bread ration seems to match to the Soldier.