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July 23, 2012
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Brief History of Sliced Bread
We owe sliced bread as we know it to Otto Rohwedder, who built the first commercial loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine.As Paul Wenske recounts in The Kansas City Star, Rohwedder spent 13 years perfecting the technology and struggled to kindle interest in the enterprise; "many bakers rejected the invention, saying the bread would fall apart and grow stale too fast. They contended consumers didn't care whether their bread loaves were sliced." They were wrong. -- - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - The Atlantic
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 23, 2012 9:09 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Otto Rohwedder earned his bread in Chillicothe Mo.
Its a little sleepy town that houses a womens prison. Its on a route I run daily out of Kansas city. There is a mural on the side of a building in the town square that proclaims Chillicothe The home of sliced bread. They sure are proud of it.
Posted by: mark smith at July 24, 2012 1:34 PM