What's so good about sliced bread?

[jonny jeez]

Time after time I hear the expression "best thing since sliced bread" and sure, having ready sliced sandwich material, is convenient...but is it really the "best thing".

From what I can see the process has received little or no research or investment over the last 100 years and both the science and the result remain largely unchanged.

Surely this is yesterday's technology

Surely the wonders of modern science can improve on a design, stuck in the Victorian era

Surely we can find a way to irradiate wastage in the form of "crusts"...or the large fat slices attach end (whatever your household calls them) that are paid for, never consumed, clearly useless and always seem to become duck fodder.

The bread slicing establishment should find a better way, or is this some kind of conspiracy, some way of maintaining sales to the consumer market.


Why can't they take a leaf out of the car industry, after all...the internal combustion engine, relying on the explosive forces of burnt fossil fuel to rotate a crank... has changed beyond all recognition in the same timescale. Hasn't it?

Come on bread slicers...KEEP UP!

 

[vernon]

Surely the wonders of modern science can improve on a design, stuck in the Victorian era

Surely we can find a way to irradiate wastage

Yep, we have.

Three Mile Island, Fukushima, Chernobyl and Windscale for starters.

 

[Markymark]

The iPhone. That's better than everything. And always will be.

The only thing that's better will be the new iPhone. That's gonna be double awesome. I almost hate my iPhone 6 because I know how much better the iPhone 7 will be. But how can I hate it? It's an iPhone. So it's the best thing ever. And that is a fact.

 

[DaveReading]

Surely we can find a way to irradiate wastage in the form of "crusts"

Scottish loaves come with the crusts already irradiated away on two sides of each slice:

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Eating the crusts makes your hair curl, as any fule kno...

 

[IDMark2]

Scottish loaves come with the crusts already irradiated away on two sides of each slice:

This is only on Scottish loaves, so when you fry it you can eat most of it but still have a little finger hold at the end of each half.

 

[vernon]

The iPhone. That's better than everything. And always will be.

The only thing that's better will be the new iPhone. That's gonna be double awesome. I almost hate my iPhone 6 because I know how much better the iPhone 7 will be. But how can I hate it? It's an iPhone. So it's the best thing ever. And that is a fact.

Tha hands free kit for the iPhone. So good that it fits other phones too.

 

[Profpointy]

I suppose sliced bread has been out a good while now, so " best thing since" would still be a bold claim even if sliced bread itself is a contemptable, albeit slightly innovative product.

Just spent a day on an IT course debating precise meanings of terms. And precision is the most imprtant whotsit

 

[MontyVeda]

Time after time I hear the expression "best thing since sliced bread" and sure, having ready sliced sandwich material, is convenient...but is it really the "best thing".

From what I can see the process has received little or no research or investment over the last 100 years and both the science and the result remain largely unchanged.

Surely this is yesterday's technology

Surely the wonders of modern science can improve on a design, stuck in the Victorian era

Surely we can find a way to irradiate wastage in the form of "crusts"...or the large fat slices attach end (whatever your household calls them) that are paid for, never consumed, clearly useless and always seem to become duck fodder.

The bread slicing establishment should find a better way, or is this some kind of conspiracy, some way of maintaining sales to the consumer market.


Why can't they take a leaf out of the car industry, after all...the internal combustion engine, relying on the explosive forces of burnt fossil fuel to rotate a crank... has changed beyond all recognition in the same timescale. Hasn't it?

Come on bread slicers...KEEP UP!

the internal combustion engine is more or less the same now as when it was invented... much like sliced bread. Anyway, there's been loads of great innovations since sliced bread... i think there's a even a saying.... i just can't quite put my finger on it... the best thing something something

 

[Mattonsea]

Time after time I hear the expression "best thing since sliced bread" and sure, having ready sliced sandwich material, is convenient...but is it really the "best thing".

From what I can see the process has received little or no research or investment over the last 100 years and both the science and the result remain largely unchanged.

Surely this is yesterday's technology

Surely the wonders of modern science can improve on a design, stuck in the Victorian era

Surely we can find a way to irradiate wastage in the form of "crusts"...or the large fat slices attach end (whatever your household calls them) that are paid for, never consumed, clearly useless and always seem to become duck fodder.

The bread slicing establishment should find a better way, or is this some kind of conspiracy, some way of maintaining sales to the consumer market.


Why can't they take a leaf out of the car industry, after all...the internal combustion engine, relying on the explosive forces of burnt fossil fuel to rotate a crank... has changed beyond all recognition in the same timescale. Hasn't it?

Come on bread slicers...KEEP UP!

Not much on at the moment??

 

[jonny jeez]

Yep, we have.

Three Mile Island, Fukushima, Chernobyl and Windscale for starters.

Oops, I'm blaming spell check for that one

 

[vernon]

Personally, I'd find this more useful, Vern

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Does it have a pie adapter?

 

[jonny jeez]

the internal combustion engine is more or less the same now as when it was invented... much like sliced bread. Anyway, there's been loads of great innovations since sliced bread... i think there's a even a saying.... i just can't quite put my finger on it... the best thing something something

Shhh...the whole post was a subtle dig at the car industry for feeding our parasitical lusts.

But its ok, I'll keep that to myself.

 

[jonny jeez]

Not much on at the moment??

Not really...richmond today, Amsterdam tomorrow, Iceland Thursday and Friday and then Twickenham on Saturday...all for work and all great fun so I shan't complain

 

[jonny jeez]

The iPhone. That's better than everything. And always will be.

The only thing that's better will be the new iPhone. That's gonna be double awesome. I almost hate my iPhone 6 because I know how much better the iPhone 7 will be. But how can I hate it? It's an iPhone. So it's the best thing ever. And that is a fact.

Tell me about it, I have to wait until November for my Ipad pro and ipencil. What am I supposed to do in the mean time, my crappy ipad air is just an embarrassment now...i shall have to stay indoors untill it arrives