What was the best thing before sliced bread?
You probably never heard of Chillicothe, Missouri. A 1928 ad called Chillicothe the home of an invention that was “the greatest forward step in baking . . .”
Humans began baking bread long before recorded history. It’s no surprise that bread is considered the “staff of life.” Baking bread is a vital part of human history.
Before 1928, everyone sliced their bread with knives. People couldn’t even imagine pre-sliced bread. Depending on skills, slicing could be a very messy process – crumbs, uneven slices, even a touch of blood from a slipped knife. Yet the system worked for thousands of years.
Until Otto Rohwedder.
