Are you intimidated by bread? Maybe you should be:

"It is legitimate to fear a stalk of grain. Even though one does not know its history, one knows that it is indeed a hero with its plume, a miracle of statics with its stone armor of petrified silicic acid. That is why grain crackles when the wind plays among the stalks. The wild Germans and Slavs were terrified by it when they entered the Roman empire and hear this sound for the first time."

from Jacob's Six Thousand Years of Bread: A Holy and Unholy History, page xv.