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Where did this saying come from?

  • 12.30.2012 6:12 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

"It's the greatest thing since sliced bread -- What a brilliant idea! What a fine thing! Said of any innovation more important than a bread slicer. Often used sarcastically. The expression originated in the mid-twentieth century."

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  • 12.30.2012 6:13 PM PDT
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From the fact that everything since sliced bread has sucked terribly.

  • 12.30.2012 6:13 PM PDT

"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too."
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DeeJ's Challenge

It may get a lot of credit now, but at the time of its debut in 1928, sliced bread received less-than-rave reviews. Baker and inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder had spent 15 years perfecting his bread slicer (finally settling on one that wrapped the sliced bread to hold it together as opposed to the hat pins he'd tried earlier), but consumers weren't quick to convert. People found the sliced bread strange and senseless.

It wasn't until the advent of Wonder Bread, and the collective realization that sliced bread worked better in the toaster, that Rohwedder's invention really took off. By World War II, the military was using sliced bread to serve peanut butter & jelly sandwiches as part of soldiers' rations. Previously uncommon, the PB&J gained a loyal following among servicemen, who kept making the sandwich, sliced bread and all, after they came back to the home front.
May I suggest picking up a copy of Q&A: Who Invented Sliced Bread?

  • 12.30.2012 6:20 PM PDT

A fortune cookie

  • 12.30.2012 6:22 PM PDT

★Tosevite 187★

have you tried to make a sandwich with unsliced bread?

  • 12.30.2012 6:23 PM PDT

black ops 2 is the greatest thing ever created since sliced bread.

  • 12.30.2012 6:25 PM PDT