If everything is the best thing since sliced bread. What came before it?!
If everything is the best thing since sliced bread. What came before it?
Everyone says that's the best thing since sliced bread. I have always wandered what came before sliced bread?. Well I mean I guess you could say non sliced bread.
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It is called an expression! Most expressions do originate from something factual, but sometimes it was just something clever someone said and people begane to use it more and more.
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If I have to guess, I'd say before sliced bread there was uuuh. . . bread that was torn instead of neatly slicedor maybe before that - NO bread at all?
peanut butter.
cannibalism and the great meat eaters
The Egg
The wheel!!!!
Yeast
The llama was obviously the preeminent derivation of transferral combined with a onus carrier as was procurable at that present time - obviously better than bread, sliced or otherwise.
No Joke!!
Check this out:
http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1998/bread.htm...
Nothing. The world was a sad and empty place in those days, and sliced bread was the first good thing that happened in all of eternity, and therefore, at the time, was the best thing ever. That's why we continue the tradition to this day of comparing good things that happen to that first, wonderful thing that lifted the universe up from its plodding monotony. Sliced bread.
pre-sliced butter.
it didnt work out too well, too flimsy.
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The saying originated during WWII, when stores quit selling sliced bread. Households were trying to not to be wasteful, and it was thought that unsliced bread would stay fresher longer.
Because sliced bread has only been the best thing for the past 60 years, there's probably a whole parade of things that were the best before then.
The knife came before sliced bread.
i dunno...
i thnk i'm kind of asnwering ur question with a question. didn't that term come around during like world war I when instant foods were needed cuz wives were too busy to whip up a good meal?
so i'd say...good family meals. haha
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