Hatunen wrote:
> 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.

My corner bakery had a machine with a lead screw that fed the loaf into
the spinning blade one CHOMP at a time. The slice thickness was adjustable.

Jerry
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