I have no idea what anyone in the world would do if he finds a piece of bread lying on the ground but an Egyptian would bend, pick it up, kiss it, say a short prayer and lay it beside the wall lest anyone should step on it. Such is the reverence for bread in the Egyptian culture
Egyptians see bread as a gift from the Divine, the very substance of life; its name in Egyptian Arabic, eish, is literal for life. Bread is the main component of Egyptian diet; no food is eaten without bread and, while bread can do when no other food is attainable, no other food may do in place of bread
