In January 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians descended on Tahrir Square in Cairo demanding democracy under the slogan “Bread, Freedom, Social Justice.” For some, these protests represented a new, emboldened democratic spirit. Instead, I argue that the claims to democracy and the contentious practices of the Revolution drew on a longer tradition of “bread uprisings” that have been used to articulate demands of citizenship and basic dignity for decades. In this chapter, I trace this history of bread protests in Egypt. I show how the legacy of populist president Gamal Abdul Nasser was appropriated by the Egyptian people. It was later repurposed to articulate rights-based claims to food subsidies, and to justify popular revolt. This same popular tradition of protest was invoked during moments of electoral liberalization in the 2000s, during the 2011 Arab Spring, and even after the introduction of constitutional rights to food in 2014. To the extent that newer practices of participation have been introduced, they have often been combined with the established repertoire of the bread uprising.