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Default Happy Sliced Bread Day!

Opinicus >'s wild
thoughts were released on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:06:51 +0300
bearing the following fruit:

>2009.07.07
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page On this day...
>
><quote>
>1928 – The Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri, USA,
>first produced sliced bread, advertised as "the greatest forward step
>in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", which then led to the
>popular phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread".
></quote>
>
>See also:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliced_bread


Surely it should be 'the first automatically sliced bread'.
I'm certain sliced bread was achieved before that via the
use of a knife ;-)


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Jan Hyde