What was the best thing before sliced bread?

Answer 1

Unsliced bread?

Answer 2

I don't know, maybe Indoor Plumbing?!
Hmmm, pre 1928... let's see...
in the early 1900's we got :
the teabag, windshield wipers,cornflakes, instant coffee,zipper, bandaids, frozen food , radios, crayons....
I don't know, You choose! :)


Sliced Bread


1928
We've all heard the expression, "it's the greatest thing since sliced bread," but have you ever wondered who invented sliced bread?
Otto Frederick Rohwedder is considered the father of sliced bread. He started working on a bread slicer in 1912. When Rohwedder took his idea to bakers, they told him that pre-cut loaves would quicky go stale.

Rohwedder tried find ways to keep the bread from going stale. Among his inventions was a device that would hold the slices of bread together with hat pins. Unfortunately, the pins kept falling out.

In 1928 Rohwedder's designed a machine that would slice and wrap bread. The wrapper would keep in the bread's moisture and keep it from going stale. Later that year, a bakery in Battle Creek, Michigan, used Rohwedder's invention and began making and selling pre-cut loaves. Today, sliced bread can be found in almost every home across Canada.

Sliced bread — meaning pre-sliced, packaged bread — has existed only since 1928, and it appears to be something of an arbitrary selection as the benchmark against which later inventions should be judged. It has been said that "the phrase is the ultimate depiction of innovative achievement and American know-how" [1] — although it is commonly used in the United Kingdom as well (although without reference to American know-how).

The popular use of the phrase appears to derive from the fact that Wonder Bread, the first mass-marketer of sliced bread as a product, launched a 1930s ad campaign touting the innovation.[citation needed] As one source reports, "[s]oon every new innovation of convenience was being touted as the 'greatest thing since sliced bread

Answer 3

47

Answer 4

People used to say: 'The best thing since drawing pins'

Answer 5

sliced bacon

Answer 6

Unsliced bread? ~

Answer 7

soap.
well so old folks tell me.
before a bar of soap they must have been really really smelly!

Answer 8

The wheel.

Answer 9

the answer is a hole think how many things have a hole in it

Answer 10

a ice chest full of cold beer.