Today is a day to celebrate! That's right, today is sliced breads birthday!! LOL! No, seriosuly it really is. Remember that expression, "you think you're the best thing since sliced bread?" If someone tells you that today, you can proudly tell them, yes I do!
Sliced bread is a loaf of bread which has been pre-sliced and packaged for convenience. It was first sold in 1924 and took four years to become the "norm", advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".
Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, USA invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, which produced their first slices on July 7, 1928. Their product, "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread", proved a success.
D. Martez
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