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The story actually starts in 1912, when Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa built a prototype of a single loaf bread slicing machine. All of the paperwork was destroyed in a fire, and it took another 16 years for the machine to make its debut.
In 2019 Missouri state statute 9.240 designated July seventh of each year as "Missouri Sliced Bread Day", indicating that the citizens of this state are encouraged to participate in appropriate activities and events to commemorate the first sale of sliced bread on July 7, 1928, in Chillicothe, Missouri.
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Who doesn't love sliced bread? -Christine cmlk79.blogspot .com
ReplyDeleteI don't know anyone!
DeleteMy day is complete now! Thanks, Kathy!
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DeleteI read recently that Trump is mulling putting a new tax on sliced bread, to get people off their folk's couches and slicing their own bread.
ReplyDeleteI doubt it would do any good. During World War II the government banned the sale of sliced bread to conserve resources that were needed for the war effort. The ban was wildly unpopular, and only lasted a couple of months.
DeleteI take a regular loaf of bread from the oven and ask them to cut it for me!!
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky to have someone to do that for you.
DeleteThank you. Interesting info.
ReplyDeleteI can just smell this bread right through the computer. We have stopped eating breads since Sam has been sick, but goodness it sure looks good.
ReplyDeleteI don't eat a lot of bread, but doubt I could go cold turkey.
DeleteInteresting information. 16 years! Now that is perseverance.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteIt's interesting how many things we take for granted really are quite recent inventions, isn't it? Right now I'm on that dreadful Low Carb Diet so cannot eat much Bread, and I LOVE Bread, sob.
ReplyDeleteSo you have to make every piece count.
DeleteHow cool is that! Now when I hear, that's the best thing since sliced bread, I also know the story behind how it got sliced. Groovy. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
DeleteNow I’ll think of Missouri every time I make toast!
ReplyDeleteHappy Missouri Sliced Bread Day to all the carb lovers out there!
Interesting information. Now I'm wondering, what IS the best thing since sliced bread?
ReplyDeleteI've wondered that myself.
DeleteVery interesting knowledge about sliced bread dear Kathy 👍
ReplyDeleteHow awful that paper burn made machine 16 years late
Blessings to you and yours 🥰
I'll overeat bread any way I can.
ReplyDeleteThat makes two of us :-)
DeleteThat's why I eat a lot of ice cream. All my extra weight is ice creams fault.
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DeleteCool. Thank you Kathy Aloha
ReplyDeleteThis was a cool story. I love and miss good bread. I made a sandwich for my husband and I smelled the bread. I was busted. But if you had to give up gluten you'd smell it when you could too! So like Mike, I eat ice cream. :-)
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine needing to give up something I really enjoy eating.
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