On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:59:55 +0100, Jan Hyde
> wrote:

>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 ;-)

Notice that his quote does not preclude your qualification, the
former being a factory/bakery process and the latter an end-user
process.

When I was a wee tad around 1940 my family normally bought bread
at a neighborhood bakery, and it would be unsliced unless you
asked for sliced. The bakery had a machine that fascinated me by
cutting an entire loaf into slices at once.

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