Showing posts with label Sliced bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sliced bread. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

When sliced bread was first sold, it was marketed as "the greatest thing since..." what?

Pre-sliced bread
We've all heard the phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread." Machine-sliced bread was first produced on a wide commercial scale on June 7, 1928 by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. The CBC marketed their new Kleen Maid Sliced Bread using a variation on the now-familiar axiom, touting sliced bread as the best thing since another bread-related innovation.

When sliced bread was first sold, it was marketed as "the greatest thing since..." what?