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.
>

Larger UK supermarkets still have slicing machines for the customers to
use. Properly shielded of course.