> > > 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.

It was ground coffee. And before that, roasted
coffee. The first chores that the customers
were relieved of by food purveyors. After
sliced bread, it was margarine which already
had the yellow dye mixed in it. You mooshed
all the margarine in a bowl with a little
packet of yellow goo before that. That's my
opinion!