Commentary for Berakhot 74:9
הכא במאי עסקינן בבא מלחם גדול
With what are we here dealing ? When [the crumbs] are from a whole loaf.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Lit. large; i.e. a loaf which has not been entirely reduced to crumbs, but only a part of it. If, then, he eats of these crumbs and they are not the size of an olive, he is not required to say the benediction "...Who bringest forth bread from the earth."
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