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Daily Bread for 7.7.26: A Post About Sliced Bread

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Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 86. Sunrise is 5:24 and sunset is 8:35 for 15 hours 11 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 53.2% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1928, sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor’s 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

It’s because of American ingenuity that we use the expression ‘the greatest thing since sliced bread.’ A machine that slices bread is, in fact, ingenious. And so — a post today about one of our country’s many useful inventions, created nearly a century ago.

Sliced bread:

In this Weird History deep dive, we uncover the surprising origin story behind sliced bread, discuss how it revolutionized everyday life and explain why it became the gold standard for innovation. From the disaster that forced its inventor to invent it twice, to the rise of Wonder Bread, to the World War II era ban that took sliced bread off supermarket shelves, this is the strange, fascinating story of how a simple loaf changed the world forever.

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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, and a New Ethics Ordinance.

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