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The power or ability to recognize the food item 'bread' is often cited as an example of a lame or 'tame-ass karate' form of power or ability that a fucking Norm would have, beneath the contempt of any of your usual types of Awesomes with real sweet moves. This connotation has become common with The Revengerists, after Dr Tasty made a disparaging comment about a conjectural 'super power' that is not actually a super power at all, but really an everyday common ability that he could then mock. The utility of such an exercise may be questionable, but the meme remained and actually spread to other Awesome groups such as the X-Men or the Strange Gods whom Breshvic visits... even evil groups like the Vengeance Villains adopted the term. Sometimes pejorative, or absurdly dada, and other times a friendly ribbing, it has come to be used when new recruits or applicants to super-powered organizations must come to a time of demonstrating their sweet moves. For example, one of the interviewers may say to them, by way of requesting a demonstration of some sweet moves, "okay, let's see if you can do more than recognize bread, kid."

For centuries this term was utilized, carried forward by immortals who remembered the zinger well beyond its origins, characters like South Side Santa are recorded using the term, in an ever-evolving usage and context, as far into the future as Revengerists Issue #7309: Future Tales #1.

However, modern psychohistorians and laboratory researchers in the future have begun to question the very validity of even the original premise. Are there instances in which the recognition of bread would indeed qualify as an Awesome ability, such as used alongside the sick ability of 'Use Bread Weapons'? Perhaps the ability is of outsized value to those in certain occupations? Is it qualitatively helpful to discuss the assumed hierarchical positioning of 'recognize bread' as a basis for standardization of a power metering system, as some have proposed over the years? Are all forms of the power 'recognize bread' equal, or much like strength, speed or intelligence, are there normal and super-heightened forms of the power? Can one even safely assume that all Norms are themselves capable of bread recognition, and thus can be considered synonymous in a colloquial usage? Can one even safely assume that Awesome individuals are capable of the power to recognize bread in all circumstances? To that end, it must be revealed at this point that the above image is not, in fact, bread, but rather, a quite breadlike stone.

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