The Wheel- the best thing until sliced bread
I once read that sliced bread was banned in America during WWII. I stated it once in a conversation-because my primary contributions to daily small-talk is entertaining obscura- and someone asked me why.
Now I didn't actually know. I made a logical deduction:
"Because the knife-metal was needed for the war effort."
To which they replied,
"But you still have to slice it yourself."
And I did not know how to answer him.
The following reasons are the reasons for which sliced bread was banned for sale in the USA from 1943 to 1945.
1) The metal from *bread-slicing machines* was needed for the war effort.
2) Unsliced loaves didn't go stale as quickly, making bread last longer, thus cheaper. As well, minute savings from eliminating bread slicing machines kept bread cost from being linked to metal cost.
Now I didn't actually know. I made a logical deduction:
"Because the knife-metal was needed for the war effort."
To which they replied,
"But you still have to slice it yourself."
And I did not know how to answer him.
The following reasons are the reasons for which sliced bread was banned for sale in the USA from 1943 to 1945.
1) The metal from *bread-slicing machines* was needed for the war effort.
2) Unsliced loaves didn't go stale as quickly, making bread last longer, thus cheaper. As well, minute savings from eliminating bread slicing machines kept bread cost from being linked to metal cost.