Midnight Snacks - The Greatest Invention Since....

Have you ever wondered the history behind the saying "The greatest invention since sliced bread"? I haven't either but Don graciously gave me a history lesson and so glad he did! Check out this *midnight snack* about the man who created a bread slicing machine and how that invention truly encapsulated the American Dream! Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States, invented the first single loaf bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire,[4] and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, who sold their first slices on July 7, 1928.[5] Their product, "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread", proved to be a success. Battle Creek, Michigan, has a competing claim as the first city to sell bread sliced by Rohwedder's machine; however, historians have produced no documentation backing up Battle Creek's claim.[6] The bread was advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". Join our Discord -- https://discord.gg/bCFQ7Vtv2P OSD Twitch --https://www.twitch.tv/okaysweetdreams Bean's Twitch -- https://www.twitch.tv/deathlikebean Join our Reddit -- https://www.reddit.com/r/OkaySweetDreams/comments/15vwwkv/welcome_insomniacs_to_the_okay_sweet_dreams/ sliced bread, history podcast, bread, american dream, greatest invention since sliced bread, bread history, sliced bread history, the great depression, bread episode,