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Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009Happy Sliced Bread Day!
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  SignatureBob http://www.kanyak.com Opinicus <gezgin@spamcop.net.which.is.not.invalid>'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... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >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 ;-) -- Jan Hyde >Opinicus <gezgin@spamcop.net.which.is.not.invalid>'s wild >thoughts were released on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:06:51 +0300 [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >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. Signature************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * >> Opinicus <gezgin@spamcop.net.which.is.not.invalid>'s wild >> thoughts were released on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:06:51 +0300 [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > asked for sliced. The bakery had a machine that fascinated me by > cutting an entire loaf into slices at once. My corner bakery had a machine with a lead screw that fed the loaf into the spinning blade one CHOMP at a time. The slice thickness was adjustable. Jerry SignatureEngineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ > On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:59:55 +0100, Jan Hyde > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > asked for sliced. The bakery had a machine that fascinated me by > cutting an entire loaf into slices at once. Our nearest mini-supermarket still has one of those. cheers, Stephanie in Brussels >> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:59:55 +0100, Jan Hyde >> >> [ ... ] >> 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. > > Our nearest mini-supermarket still has one of those. So does our local bakery. Probably that just reflects the fact that in France (and doubtless Belgium) sliced bread is nowhere near as popular as it is in English-speaking countries. Sliced bread is definitely regarded as inferior for most purposes and is only sliced in a real bakery if you want to spread foie gras on it, and then it's sliced at the moment you buy it, not before. Signatureathel >>> When I was a wee tad around 1940 my family normally bought bread >>> at a neighborhood bakery, and it would be unsliced unless you [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > bakery if you want to spread foie gras on it, and then it's sliced at > the moment you buy it, not before. From what I can recall of my youth in Belgium, sliced bread was far more prevalent than it is in France, with sandwiches ("tartines") being made with it, as opposed to the French baguette. I remember the local bakery machine-slicing the loaves as they were sold. This in the 1960s. Chris R >>>> When I was a wee tad around 1940 my family normally bought bread >>>> at a neighborhood bakery, and it would be unsliced unless you [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > it, as opposed to the French baguette. I remember the local bakery > machine-slicing the loaves as they were sold. This in the 1960s. All the local -- read "family owned" -- bakeries I have shopped at since the 1940s have had slicing machines. I already mentioned the one from the 40s and 50s that cut a slice at a time, advancing the loaf with an intermittent lead screw. All since then have had parallel reciprocating blades. I get hard-crust ("Jewish") rye at a small bakery in New Brunswick, NJ. New clerks are always surprised when I ask that it not be sliced. Jerry SignatureEngineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ >>> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:59:55 +0100, Jan Hyde >>> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >bakery if you want to spread foie gras on it, and then it's sliced at >the moment you buy it, not before. Publix supermarkets have bread slicing machines. The bakery counter sells whole loaves of bread, and the customer has the choice of either taking it as-is or having it sliced for them. My wife sometimes has a loaf cut in half, and one-half sliced. The remaining half stays fresher until we have used the sliced half. 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