> > > I've always wondered what the greatest thing was before sliced bread. Whenever I ask someone about it, they usually tell me it was unsliced bread, but what's so great about bread if it's not sliced?
> >
> > Umm....it's edible? And nutritious?
> >
> > My eighth grade science teacher told me it was the steam engine. He may be right, even though steam engines have little to nothing to do with baked goods.
> >
> > I think sliced bread came before the steam engine, anyway.
> >
> > -Mel
>
> I'm almost certain the pre-sliced stuff that comes in bags, which is what I was referring to here, actually only showed up this century. I can't remember if they came up with it in the 20s or the 50s, though.

Well, my first memory of sliced bread was in the 30's. I remember using the expression in a conversation about a year ago and the guy I was talking to laughed his head off. It seems he had never heard it before. I wanted to ask where he had been all these years.
Howard