January 13, 2011
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Play(Very borderline geeky) What phrase has its origins in this seemingly trivial device?
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Answer:
Otto Rohwedder’s bread slicer patent. The phrase, of course, is “The greatest thing since sliced bread”
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The ban on pre-sliced bread in the U.S. during WWII is an interesting bit of random history.
Phrase: “The greatest thing since sliced bread”
‘the greatest thing since sliced bread’.
The multiple cutting bands in Rohwedder’s 1928 slicer are shown in this diagram from his patent.
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“greatest thing since sliced bread”
patent for bread slicer by rohwedder.
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Rohwedder’s patent diagram for bread slicer
Bread slicer
The phrase “Its the greatest thing since sliced bread”. Pic shows the patent for a bread slicer invented by Otto Rohwedder
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Sliced bread.
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