What was before sliced bread

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Please enter a valid email address. Please attempt to sign up again. Sign Up Now. An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up. Wonder What's Next? Develop your own creative spark by checking out one or more of the following activities with a friend or family member: Make a list of 10 inventions you'd like to see in your lifetime. What might they be? Homework that completes itself? The flying car? Ketchup and mustard in the same bottle?

Let your imagination run wild. Of course, you can think of some silly inventions that would be fun to use, but think seriously for a bit, too. What types of products would make life more enjoyable? Can you think of any healthcare advances that might prolong your life? What about inventions that could improve your house, your car, or your computer? The sky's the limit…especially since you might be the one tasked with inventing what you want to see in the future!

Take a stroll around your house and garage. Pick up three or four random things. Make sure they're specific products with particular purposes. Sit down at the kitchen table and give them some thought. Who invented these things? Why did they invent them? What purposes do they serve? Can you imagine being the person who invented these things? Do they seem like really obvious inventions? Or were they the work of a clever, inventive mind well ahead of its time?

So what do YOU think was the best thing before sliced bread? Get into your time machine and set the dial back to sometime prior to Jump out and take a look around. What's the best thing you see? Feel free to let your imagination run wild. Before sliced bread, what might people have said when they wanted to express how great something new was.

What would they say? You fill in the blank. Be as creative as you can be. Try out your new sayings in an old-fashioned accent just for fun. Ask a friend or family member for help. What ideas do they have? Enjoy your time together and have fun brainstorming about the great things of the past!

Did you get it? Test your knowledge. What are you wondering? Wonder Words incredible colorful invention advertising slogan literal prepackaged indicating innovations Take the Wonder Word Challenge. Join the Discussion. Link Feb 27, I think that this article was very cool and fresh! This may sound weird and quite dumb, but I thought nothing was better than sliced bread, because I didn't put much thought into what was made before sliced bread!

Now, I can say "This is the best thing since the electric lightbulb! Feb 27, Hi Link, we don't think that sounds weird or dumb at all! Thanks for stopping by. Feb 17, Jan 8, That's great, pickle.

Thanks for stopping by! Boby Dec 6, Oct 3, Arsena Mary McIntire Feb 7, Betty White was the best thing before sliced bread. Feb 8, Alan Oct 19, Best thing before sliced bread would be the invention of agriculture.

It allowed humanity to settle in a single location, and permitted a shift in focus from hunting and gathering to invention and innovation. Oct 23, The invention of agriculture was extremely important! Thanks for sharing, Alan!!! Patricia Dec 29, A relative of mine, Otto Rohwedder, invented the bread slicer.

In ,plastic was not available and if the loaf was sliced, it would be stale or dry in a few days. The saying gained popularity when a famous person was interviewed upon exiting the first talkie movie. I regret that I fail to remember that persons name. Dec 29, Michael May 30, My father was born in , and grew up during the depression.

At school, kids with sliced bread sandwiches looked down on them because their lunches were made with home-baked bread. May 31, Karen Tracy Skyson Feb 28, Hi Wonderopolis! This is my list of inventions I'd like to see: 1. A machine that turns anything into a different state of matter immediately depending on what state you choose. A machine that automatically candies food. A house made entirely of food. That's all the inventions I can think of now but do you have a Wonder about how wind-up toys work and more Wonders about food?

I found this Wonder interesting because I did not know that the invention of sliced bread was so recent! I liked the fact that the animals at the beginning of the Wonder were named Karen and Tracy since those names are my first and middle names! Bye Wonderopolis! Your Wonder Friend, Karen. Mar 1, Rachel Sep 17, I think the 3D printer is the most innovative invention since sliced bread. Wonderopolis Sep 18, I like this email, by the way, I haven't been on for a long time, I had a hard time finding comments XD.

This was a great wonder and That Bacon! Wonderopolis Sep 11, Gustav Papendick, baker from St. Louis, bought Rohwedder's second bread slicer and tried to improve it by keeping the slices together long enough to allow the loaves to be wrapped. AT first he tried with rubber bands and metal pins, but rubber bands crushed the bread and metal pins fell out.

He found out that if the slices are placed in a cardboard tray it will align the slices and that will allow machine to wrap the loaf. Loaves were wrapped in wax paper which kept them fresh for a longer time.

The first commercially sold sliced bread was Wonder Bread, in Sandwich bread quickly became a household item. Sliced bread had one or two effects on consumption of bread.