You've probably heard the phrase "The greatest thing since sliced bread". And maybe you've wondered just WTF is so remarkable about sliced bread, and how there could possibly be a time before sliced bread. Did people in some long passed time just take turns biting off a communal loaf?
Well, there actually was a time before sliced bread - packaged, pre-sliced bread, that is - and it wasn't all that long ago.
The first loaf of commercially produced, pre-sliced bread was sold in Missouri in 1928. And it was sliced and packaged using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder, a jeweler, watchmaker, ophthalmologist and inventor.
Wonder Bread was created in 1930. And by 1933, sliced bread was outselling unsliced bread.
Rohwedder's machine in now in the Smithsonian.
When you need a sandwich badly
but you haven’t got a knife
you can’t work it with your fingers
and you’re painting a still life
He’s the fella
the man who invented sliced bread…
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dang
The UNEEDA Biscuit Company put the cracker in the package
Made the cracker barrel obsolete