The invention of sliced bread may function well as a specific point in time after which inventions happen, but sliced bread as an “invention” caused a chain reaction that changed the composition of the bread available in stores, at least in the US, resulting in the bread tasting like shit. So I would not classify it as a great invention at all, rather for what it was: a successful marketing campaign.
I don’t think it was sliced bread that did that I think it was cars here in the uk I can get pretty good pre sliced bread I’ve had better bread that wasn’t pre sliced from those same shops so definitely pre sliced requires a bit lower quality bread to survive at all but not terrible I’d say I’ve had good pre sliced bread even but there’s also really mediocre not very great pre sliced bread that lasts longer the good pre sliced bread lasts about half a week before going off where the mediocre bland kinda chewy stuff lasts about a week but both are available and I think the difference here is that everyone in america insists on weekly shopping because the nearest shop for you guys is an hour’s drive away due to car industry lobbying while we’re still car centric here and I wish we were better it’s atleast to the point that the nearest shops more like a 5 minute drive or half hour walk for most people double that if your areas bad and for me currently it’s a 2 minute walk down the road I can’t even finish 1 song before I get there if I start it when I leave the door so thank the car and also corn subsidies for terrible american bread not the bread slicer
The invention of sliced bread may function well as a specific point in time after which inventions happen, but sliced bread as an “invention” caused a chain reaction that changed the composition of the bread available in stores, at least in the US, resulting in the bread tasting like shit. So I would not classify it as a great invention at all, rather for what it was: a successful marketing campaign.
Taste the industrialization!
I don’t think it was sliced bread that did that I think it was cars here in the uk I can get pretty good pre sliced bread I’ve had better bread that wasn’t pre sliced from those same shops so definitely pre sliced requires a bit lower quality bread to survive at all but not terrible I’d say I’ve had good pre sliced bread even but there’s also really mediocre not very great pre sliced bread that lasts longer the good pre sliced bread lasts about half a week before going off where the mediocre bland kinda chewy stuff lasts about a week but both are available and I think the difference here is that everyone in america insists on weekly shopping because the nearest shop for you guys is an hour’s drive away due to car industry lobbying while we’re still car centric here and I wish we were better it’s atleast to the point that the nearest shops more like a 5 minute drive or half hour walk for most people double that if your areas bad and for me currently it’s a 2 minute walk down the road I can’t even finish 1 song before I get there if I start it when I leave the door so thank the car and also corn subsidies for terrible american bread not the bread slicer