>>>>>>>What's so great about sliced bread?
>>>>>>What is not so great about sliced bread?
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>>>>>It's nothing special. Anyone who isn't exactly all thumbs can slice bread. I don't see anything epochal in it, to merit the saying "...best thing since sliced bread". So, this is linguistic archaeology, i.e. trying to dig out why do we say so.
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>>>>Perhaps, "This is the best thing to come along since the invention of sliced bread." is a better way to say it.
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>>>And as we have found, the importance of it was because it made it easy to use the toaster. Now I'm curious as to why would a toaster be so important. Something wrong with the bread as such but toaster makes it right?
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>>no no no - it's marketing marketing marketing for profit profit profit.
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>Too bad. Most of the people won't ever know how good bread can be.
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>I knew something had to be very wrong when I noticed that I have begun avoiding the bread shelves in the groceries because I don't really enjoy the smell. Just when I finally got trained to survive walking by the candles shelf - the density of aroma was suffocating. Now I can walk by the candles, but have a problem walking by bread and detergents. And by the end of the year I just can't enter the crafts store.

MMMmmmmm REAL bread is so much better than the vitamin enriched sliced stuff.