Bread

Bread is a food which plays a symbolic role in The Hunger Games trilogy.

District specialties
Each district has their own unique variety of bread.
 * District 1: Diamond shaped baked with chocolate.
 * District 2: Dark and rectangular wholemeal roll.
 * District 3: Bite-sized, square shaped rolls.
 * District 4: Salty, fish-shaped bread. Containing seaweed, giving it a green tint.
 * District 5: Lightning bolt shaped bread.
 * District 6: Circular shaped rolls to symbolise tires.
 * District 7: Leaf shaped roll baked with mint leaves.
 * District 8: Cloud shaped to represent the fumes from their factories.
 * District 9: Grain shaped roll.
 * District 10: Cow bell shaped, meaty tasting rolls.
 * District 11: Made using a dark ration grain. It is crescent shaped and sprinkled with sweet seeds.
 * District 12: Drop biscuits, usually made from the tessera grain. During the 74th Hunger Games training, Katniss remarked that the Capitol's version looked better than the ones from home.

Bread in the Capitol
Several varieties of bread are seen in the Capitol. In contrast to several of the poorer districts whose bread is made from rough ration grain, Capitol breads are made from refined white flour. Different breads from the Capitol include:


 * Flower shaped rolls.
 * Puffy bread.

Role of bread

 * "Panem" is Latin for "bread." It is most notably a part of the infamous Roman political phrase panem et circenses, or "bread and circuses." The people of the Capitol essentially gave up their autonomy and humanity in exchange for "bread and circuses" when they allowed the statement of the Hunger Games, therefore this name is very appropriate.


 * Before the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss comments about how Peeta "lifts 100-pound bags of flour, signaling his strength.


 * To gain Katniss's trust, Bonnie and Twill show Katniss a cracker with her Mockingjay on it.


 * Gale holds a loaf of bread with an arrow through it and says, "Look what I shot," in his very first appearance in the film.


 * In the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss receives bread from District 11 shortly after Rue's death.
 * The amount and type of bread that is given in the arena during Catching Fire serves as a countdown for a start of the rebellion. Bread seems so innocent, yet was used in communication between mentor and tribute for the start of a rebellion in the 75th Hunger Games.
 * Peeta, along with his parents, is a baker for District 12. Peeta sounds like pita, which is a type of bread.
 * The time Peeta gave Katniss burnt bread is the first connection between the two.
 * In his interview, Peeta compares the tributes to their districts' bread with Caesar Flickerman. He also points out all the districts' breads to Katniss when they are having lunch.
 * The District 12 marriage tradition ("The Toasting") is a literal meeting of bread and fire, which serve symbolically for Peeta and Katniss in the novels.
 * In the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss discovers a loaf of bread by the Cornucopia. She picks it up as soon as the Games start, but loses it during the struggle with the boy from District 9 when she was trying to obtain the backpack.

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