What was the best thing before sliced bread?
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ANSWERS: 65
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Owning a bread knife (!) Someone has written an essay on this very subject: http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1998/bread.html
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Baked bread from a local store. B4 that was baked by the village baker. B4 that was ground flour in a bag from the miller. B4 that winnowed wheat in a bag. B4 that wheat. B4 that " Ugh, Ogg find seed. Ogg eat." But I could be wrong. The phrase dates from about1928 America when sliced bread became readily available. Wonder Bread popularized it in advertising during the 30's. Some have criticized the ad campaign claiming that "..since Wonder Bread" would have been more effective. But the phrase was already current and Wonder owned the patents to what they thought were the only efficient slicing prosesses. And, since bread sales were more localized in those days, Wonder also felt that any increase in the sales of sliced bread overall would lead to increased sales of their product. The best thing since sliced bread is, of course, Smucker's premade peanut butter and jelly samich with the crust cut off. ( And speakin of Wonder, I wunner whut they do wiff the crusts? Feed um to the ducks that lay the jelly beans that are planted to grow the jell... Nah, that aint it. Easter bunnies lay jelly beans.)
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Unsliced although food (meat) was first tinned/canned in Britain in 1810 almost a hundred years before "sliced bread". The expression "The best thing since sliced bread'' apparently dates back to a 1969 novel, by R Jaffe, called The Fame Game, in which a character says, "You're the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Non sliced bread. Well, you had to make do, didn't you?
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Lamb skin condoms.
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The roll... it required no slicing... :P
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My guess would be the almighty wheel.
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Homemade Bisquits
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Unsliced bread...you just pulled it apart...yummm
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The Loaf it came from
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Bread slicer????????
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unsliced bread.
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yeast
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chopped bread?
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Chocolate
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Liquid Bread
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Flushing toilets
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Boulders, extremely large boulders.
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Dino-steaks! Gotta bite them before they bite you!
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sliced bacon
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The knife.
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I don't know. I've heard about the Ipod somebody said, "Well, sliced bread had a good long run." So, I guess some people think the Ipods. I think maybe sliced cake, though! Bread and sweeter!
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Non sliced bread
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sliced cheese
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Answerbag, of course.
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The toaster.
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Antibiotics
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Homade Apple Pie - YUM YUM
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Pop tarts!
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AB, of course!
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High-speed Internet.
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Debit cards
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Condoms
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Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese !!!!
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chocolate covered caramel mmmmmmmmmmmm
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Sliced bagels! Enough said.
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pacifiers... they can shut my son up no prob... HA HA
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I've got a question- why is sliced bread so great? Is it *that* hard to slice bread yourself? No! You take bread, and a knife, and you slice it! Simple. Where's the lightbulb factor in, or cars, or planes, or microchipping? Can we really say these are less impressive than cutting bread?
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Cavebabes yo...
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Unsliced bread?
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It's totally obvious! - the flyswatter :)
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John Deere.
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5 cent dino burgers.
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Not having ever heard the word "carbies".
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THe wheel.
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I'm going with soap. Who cares if the bread was sliced or not, if you couldn't sit next to the person slicing.
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The electric powered bread slicer.
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http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/42843
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I would have to say sausage. "Hey lets grind up the meat with some herbs and stuff and then uh... yeah we'll stuff it in the entrails and cook it. Hey we can even just use all the extra crap from the animal to fill in. Mmmm entrails."
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SaraMonster isn't allowed to answer.
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Trenchers. Bread cooked to use as dishes. It was very hard, so did not fall apart easily. By the time you were done eating, it was soft enough from the juices to be eaten as well.
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Probably fire... Can't have bread if you can't bake it! ;-)
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Sliced cheese.
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Unsliced bread.
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Sliced wooly mammoth or something.
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The wheel
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churned butter
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the knjfe to slice it
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THE BATMAN!
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Silverware
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The wheel?
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Unsliced bread.+5
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It is hard to decide what is considered the best thing by the largest number ratio of homo-sapiens. Indeed, it is nearly impossible as the vast number of populace on the planet. According to the highly sophisticated source at http://sunsite.unc.edu/lunarbin/worldpop the exact world population, as of January 4, 1998, 2:14:29 was exactly 5,863,650,069. One can only guess the most commonly used household object in that time period, 1700's to 1759, when sliced bread became popular. The simplest hypothesis would be, then, that the "best" or preeminent apparatus would be a knife, for cutting the bread to make ones own sliced bread.
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Catch and release mousetraps.
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Sex
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