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Which Russian white bread was shaped with a plump body and a slim looped grip that eaters held with unwashed hands and then threw away or gave to beggars?

Baked since roughly the 14th century, its grip was never meant to be eaten; only the truly destitute finished it too, which is the origin of the phrase "to reach the handle", meaning to hit rock bottom.

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