Sliced Bread and the Second World War
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- Sliced bread is the standard for greatness. No one seems to ask what was the greatest thing before sliced bread, and many compete over what is the greatest thing since. But, in 1943, sliced bread was about to encounter the largest war in human history, leading many to argue that the worst thing since sliced bread was the time the government banned sliced bread. The US government ban on sliced bread in January 1943 is history that deserves to be remembered.
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A mistake of bureaucratic overzealousness got corrected in two months? That's history worth remembering 🐱
Yeah they are still doubling down on the most recent government caused disaster.
@@GigsVT , that being the Steal. I hope you concur.
It just shows the power of crumbs in the works, And the words "Let them eat bread" are words no one in government should ever say.
@@SPECTORMANZ The gullibility is mind boggling and has lead to the war zone around D.C. and State Capitals. You must be very proud
@@timgelder4263 War Zone? It was NOTHING compared to all the cities set afire during the summer.
The History Guy is the Best thing since sliced bread.
Since bread, period.
you beat me to it lol
@@secretagent86 lol 😂 I was quick on the draw there.
The greatest invention before sliced bread, was the flush toilet.
A cut above the rest. The Upper Crust may relate to Medieval bread, the top being clean and free of ash, the bottom whereitwas contact with the floor of the oven burnt and bitty. So the nobels gotTrenchers from the top. Face it boys, we are on theNitty Gritty, Oats were a primary flour, Wild Oats have a black tip ,which when ground look like head lice eggs or Nits in the flour, If the stones are worn or not set correctly the face can breack up ,Grit.
The lesson is that no government failure is ever held to account.
@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio Do kings have a higher sense of responsibility, in your opinion?
@@robert.adamek Not necessarily, but they have often been held to account...
Well... there's going to be a lot more of that going on now.
Well yeah, a government official being held accountable for a failure would set a dangerous precedent: people might expect the government to start following their own laws and may even start expecting them to do their jobs too!
Oh so very true.
The same ones will climb over each other to take credit.
Hello History Guy.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's, and never gave much thought to sliced bread. Even though my Great Grandmother sliced her own hand made bread loaves by hand with a large knife. Toast in the mornings was generally pre-sliced bread pieces... but sandwiches at lunch were nearly always thickly sliced from a fresh loaf, or one that was at most, a couple days old and tightly wrapped to maintain it's freshness.
My Great Grandmother baked a LOT. Cookies, cakes, pies, muffins, buns, tarts, etc. She was a veritable Grand Sorceress in the kitchen. She was born on a 'small' farm and grew up in a rural area, and mostly home schooled. She learned to cook using a wood burning cast iron stove, and when I grew up she loved her gas stove. She almost never used pre-made anything. And would rather spend the time and effort to do it herself... at least until she reached her late 80's (she passed on at age 98 and 7 months).
I grew up to wonderus smells in the kitchen all day, every day. I learned to bake, cook, fry, deep fry, and even use a pressure cooker from my Great Grandmother. I also learned to Iron, sew, knit, darn, do washing of both pots, pans, and dishes, was well as clothing. She taught us to memorize the multiplication tables and balance check books. She even had a hand cranked hamburger maker that clamped to the kitchen table to turn odd sized bits and pieces of various meats into 'burger' to be used for various purposes.
But back to sliced breads. When I lived and worked in Chicago for just over 33 years, I was a frequent patron of a couple of small bakeries that sold daily freshly baked breads. The loaves were round though, and most would not buy them because slicing such bread is hard to do. I, however, was used to such loaves from childhood. Even though 'gramma' had baking tins to make 'loaf' shaped loaves.
One of my fondest memories of childhood was fishing trips with my brother and father. We would stop at a local store for fresh polish sausages, blocks of cheese, sodas (beer for dad), and bring along one of 'grammas' loaves. A quarter of such a loaf (usually about 8-10 inches diameter), a chunk of cheese, and a link of sausage made for a very nice 'Fisherman's Lunch' while catching Dinner's fish.
Oh yes... before I forget... dropping crumbs from eating lunch off the bridge into the water would lure fish to that spot. Dipping a worm baited hook shortly after the water ceased roiling from the fish fight over the crumbs usually ended up very successful.
Yes, sliced bread is a 'good' thing... but I have fond memories of ripping off hunks and slathering them with butter and honey as a between meals snack for a growing boy. And, I love the sometimes odd looks I get when slicing a round loaf like a pie and handing out such 'slices'. Or, the weird looks I get when coring a round loaf before pouring the hollow full of a thick stew and serving it up as lunch.
Keep on making your videos please. They are interesting, informative, and well thought out. History is worth remembering... even personal bits like the above.
Thank you for sharing your story!!!!
Bread slicing ban: A solution in search of a problem.
Our g'mint hard at work for us.
Something that can be said about most bans.
@@terryboyer1342 "Good Morning everyone! Let's make some laws today!"
Sorta like Congress's recent ceiling fan laws.
@@billdewahl7007 ALL
Betty White was born before sliced bread was invented so sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White
Good one!
she just turned 99
And this story comes a day after her 99th birthday and she has often said that she's older than sliced bread ; so this story coming on the "heels" of her birthday may not be a coincidence. 😁
@@stevebengel1346 heels hahaha
Here here!
A slice of history that costs no dough for us to enjoy.
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I still recall mixed-grain bread and being able to buy the mixed grain flour. One of my dads hobbies after the Korean war was baking. He didn't eat sweets himself but he could sure make some good candy and cake but his love was baking bread. The house always smelt so good when he was baking. After two wars I think it helped him escape the horrors he saw. That and his yard and rose gardens.
Thank you for sharing your memory.
I'm hereby coining the phrase: "Worst idea since banning sliced bread"
Quick, trademark it! Geoff Who will use that.
True, it was a crumb-y idea....
That law didn't cut it...
That's the worst idea since the worst idea since banning sliced bread!
worst law since the banning of sliced bread.
Bureaucrats: Finding real solutions to imaginary problems since the dawn of civilizaion.
#Vogons
We needed some bureaucrats making plans for vaccine distribution. The lack of central coordination has caused chaos and waste.
@@lawsonj39 State level bureaucrats are in charge of that.
@@razorpit and yet the feds are responsible for obtaining said vaccines, with no oversight to distribute and implement said vaccine. It’s like having a party, ordering exotic beer, and not having a bottle opener. Just wasting money.
"Bureaucrats: Finding real solutions to .........." lolol. Surely a bureaucrat is not going to find a "real solution" be it imagined or real, how would the bureaucratic pooh bahs grow their fiefdoms if they really fixed a problem? To quote Reagan, "the worst nine words you want to here is: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'" ;)
Just even another nicely developed and delivered story. As a kid in the late 1940s, kindergarten age in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, I’d be with Mom going down to the village bakery. They had fresh-baked loaves of bread. And wow! “How do you want it, whole or sliced?” We got to watch the loaf go through their sliced bread machine on display! Another revival of the phrase, “Best thing since sliced bread.”
There’s a family story that my great grandfather’s reaction to first seeing sliced bread was a rather awed “Sliced bread, what will they think of next?” He was a businessman in Stockton, CA with seven children, the youngest of whom (my grandma) was born in 1918. That’s a lot of bread to slice every day.
Yes it is, and a lot of clothes to wash by hand, yikes!
victory has a thousand fathers, and defeat is an orphan.... even applies to sliced bread
Beat me to it!
My Grandfather never said the phrase, "Since sliced bread." He always said, "The best thing since canned beer and falsies."
During my (brief) sales career I had a manager who kept telling us we were selling "the best thing since sex, Seven-Up and sliced bread." I didn't think so -- so door-to-door encyclopedia sales went on without me.
@@rcknbob1 Seven Up used to have lithium in it, so it made you high. Jeeze I think the last time I saw an encyclopedia salesman I watched Jaws in the Movie Theatre.
@@knoahbody69 Lithium doesn't so much "gets you high", as it's actually a mood stabiliser and is/was a medical supplement for depression, bipolar and similar medical issues stemming from chemical imbalances in the brain before more modern medicines such as Fluxoetine (brand name: Prozac).
It's just in more recent decades Lithium was phased out of regular medical use as we found it to have uses in other STEM fields such as making high power density-small footprint batteries such as Lithium-Ion (cellphone batteries) and Lithium Polymer (RC car) or Lithium-Iron-Phosphate (LiFePO) batteries.
One major downside of using Lithium for batteries is the metal reacts *violently* with water, and the batteries are susceptible to Thermal Runaway effects if heated too much during use, which causes a feedback loop ending in the battery burning itself (as seen with battery failures of Segways, hoverboards, cellphones and EV's using Lithium-Ion and Lithium Polymer batteries).
I like your grandfather. My grandfather told me hookers can be a lot of fun but remember you can't turn a whore into a housewife. He was a ww2 vet. He was German American and joined the army to prove he was American. He lied about his age because he was too old. He had 2 grown sons in the war and claimed to be the oldest man on the beach on Dday. He probably was
Nasty old man 😮
My grandfather invented the process that put the sliced bread into plastic bags with a twist tie. Before that, bread was put in wax paper bags and heat sealed shut. His name was Gordon C Gilbert - no period after the "C" because it was not an initial. Like many others born in Oklahoma prior to statehood, his parents were compelled to give all their children "middle designations" if they did not have middle names. None of his family had such names nor saw the need to worry about them any more than did their Ponca neighbors and friends. But, when push came to shove, their three children were officially given, in order of birth, their middle designations of "A," "B," and "C" respectively. I thought that deserved to be remembered as well. Keep up the good work, sir.
My father would have LOVED this documentary. He always said “best thing since sliced bread “. I didn’t know exactly what he was talking about til now.
I love how you can take a rather benign topic and make it fascinating.
They are often topics we have thought about from time to time though. Always fascinatingly great stuff. A real welcome break from politics and news.
Benign? If you asked my Grandmother about WW2 this was her go to rant.
Mr H.G. is too politically correct for me. He says we don't know when yeast was used in bread, and mentions 300 BC - but the Bible records unleavened bread eaten during the exodus (because they didn't have time to let the yeast multiply in the dough), meaning that they had *leavened* bread. Regardless if you believe the exodus was fact or not, the book of Exodus was written before 300 BC.
This is what separates THG apart. He covers all the things we take for granted, all the things, people, and events whose impact on history we've forgotten. Topics which are far too easy for most people to completely overlook or foget.
When THG did a video on the history of ketchup, someone commented, "Why do I need to know the history of ketchup. Wait, what is the history of ketchup?" Sums up the appeal of THG.
So true. Line markings on roads for instance! And he makes it ALL interesting!
I never even knew about this...
The History Guy is doing what The History Channel used to do before they dumbed down with reality shows.
Love your channel always. This one is a wonderful one as well. I remember my gramma slicing her homemade bread all the time when I was little at the table. We always knew when she bought the loaf on the rare occasions, as it was sliced and just on a plate. Thank you for the memories and I must admit I want some toast now.
I declare this episode as the #1 video you have made so far. And there are many to extol.
Thank you for the opportunity to appreciate sliced bread.
"Little bureaucrat in the Agriculture Department" passes a law all by themselves. Pass me the butter...and the buck!
And they still do it to this day but the big difference is depraved indifference: Not only do they not withdraw the ridiculous regulation but they double down on it too.
"We have to pass the law to find out what's in it."
I was a baker. I got fired for loafing around too much. So I robbed a bank as I kneaded the dough.
A compounding Dad joke. How terrifying.
Doesn't it take two hands to knead dough? How did you hold the gun while you robbed the bank? 😉
Mike Horan, when it was time to proof your baking skills, you failed to rise to the occasion....and now you're a crusty old geezer!
😂 The door's over there 👉✌️
I was told I couldn't sit on the bread slicer because they were getting a little behind in their work.
Covering these tidbits of history are so enjoyable and informative. Thanks for your research and enjoyable approach to history.
In a time of scarcity, I would have thought that pre-sliced bread would be a good idea since it 'guarantees' the number of sliced per loaf, while people hacking bits off the loaf are likely to get far fewer slices.
I guess our grandparents didn't have time to slice bread becuase they were too busy walking to school uphill both ways
...in the snow.
@@edwardschwieterman7128 And the wind pushed them back 3 steps for every one they took; they had to go to school by giving up and heading for home...
@@edwardschwieterman7128 Carrying a dead mule to prove to the principal that you missed class because you had to pull the plow...
Beating off a pack of wolves using only my note book.
@@daleolson3506 TMI! Your social life is your business, as long as the wolves enjoyed it too, though...!
When a kid in the 50s, we went to the Pepperidge Farm factory for a tour. All four of us got a loaf off the conveyor just after baking and wrapping. Couple of hour drive home and nearly all was eaten with no condiments. The smell of fresh baked bread was soooooo good.
When I bake bread it's gone so fast it's crazy.
Because Pepperidge Farm remembers.
@@rosscampbell1173 ...14,000 years ago 😉
Fresh baked bread is a godly smell
@@terminator572 it's sinfully delicious!!
I love your History Lessons that are unknown/remembered/told!!!!
Monmouth, IL is only a short drive from us. Davenport, IA is even closer. Never knew it was invented here. Thank you for telling us the cutting edge history of bread slicing which was invented in our backyard.
"When the government banned sliced bread"
Me"wait WHAT??!!"
"We still have sliced bread"
2021 is just getting started................
Ans we still have gov. top down directives and that getting increasingly more too.
Total control is fun ain't it? Bad grammar purposeful. For the grammar Nazis.
Be patient.
I propose a new regulation : no covid-19 shot - no sliced bread
No shot, no bread, and plenty of ammo to take your bread 😂
@@Richard-zc1cj Done.
In the early 1980's a local restaurant featured "Homemade Bread" on it's menu. The kitchen staff placed freshly cooled loafs in a slicing guide, and cut the bread by hand with a long, serrated knife.
It was the most popular "Bread" they served! Everyone ordered this "Homemade" bread with nearly every meal served! 😊
This was one of, if not, my favorite video you've done. Absolutely a gem!
"The greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped."
-1921 advert for Wonder Bread
When we were stationed in Greece, we would buy the local bread. It was about the size of a foot long from Subway. The bread could easily be carried in the pockets of our fatigues. You could then either eat it or use it as a weapon if attacked. The bread had a very hard exterior.
how did it taste though? the hard exterior usually means it just takes longer to chew.
That's why it's so tasty and makes a great sub/hero/hoagie! And what's leftover makes the BEST bread pudding! 😋
The size of a subway would mean subduing the enemy would make it a hero.
That sounds like some tasty bread
Imagine getting to the gates of heaven and St. Peter asks why you are there and your reply is "Well I got beaten to death by a loaf".
Again, as always, The History Guy connects events with the yearnings and passions of humanity. No one is better at making the past come alive.
The picture of the white bread , at the pool hall takes the cake . Another slice of life from the history guy . Thanks.
Having grown up on a farm we almost never had store bought bread. But with 9 kids moms fresh bread never got stale.
With 9 kids it didn't have time to.
I bet!
just chuckled to myself thinking how modern Americans would react to WW II era restrictions.
They would go crazy.
Not a concern. World wide covid restrictions are worse.
@@billstopp5672 You evidently did not have parents and aunts and uncles that lived it. They still saw the conditions of living through the war as better than the depression.
@@ronfullerton3162 I was born before WW 2. I remember.
@@billstopp5672 I myself was born after the war ended. My Dad's family was really close, and got together and visited often. They didn't dwell on living conditions, but mainly discussed on how it had been. Everyone was doing far better, and were enjoying the new life post war. If it would come back to times like those, we have lots of people who are in for a shock.
Like so many of your episodes you have the ability to find really interesting stories about the smallest of things- that’s why I subscribe !
Among the best. I suspect your whimsical style stimulates pleasures and facilitates learning efficacy.
I can remember going shopping with my mother and we could buy 'pre-sliced' bread, or we could buy an un-sliced loaf and have them slice it for us right then. I always wanted us to get the un-sliced and have it sliced so that I could watch. Strange what you remember about being a kid.
That is a cool little story. Thanks.
You can do that today at La Madeleine.
When you're a kid, you live in a world of wonder.
My late parents were teens during WW2 and the bread issue wasn’t a story I heard from them. Thanks for this!
It was most likely a big city thing, just like today.
My parents were young during the war. Both my grandmothers made their on bread. My mother said she had never had a machine sliced piece of bread, til she had married my dad in 1955.
My parents never mentioned it, either. I’ve known plenty of old folks who never said a word about it.
So this is my theory... people didn’t throw as big of a fit as the data suggests. Like today, the fussy entitled citizens made the most noise and left the impression that the whole country was in an uproar. They yelled while most people shrugged and got to work cutting the bread. Think of the percentage of the population who hoarded toilet paper last spring. Most of us were asking each other where to buy a single pack, trying to be decent when we did locate some and not buy more than was needed. And a lunatic fringe hoarded the stuff.
So yeah, that’s my take. I keep seeing people here generalizing about the silly people fussing about cutting bread. But not everyone was sunk neck deep in the modern culture of the time, so far removed from the past that they didn’t own a bread knife and couldn’t see how to cut bread without one or even with one. Most people just asked grandma or something.
Since when have government bureaucrats ever actually thought out the results of their regulations?
"And the best lesson might be..." The best lesson is, don't trust government to do what is smart or right before it's tried everything else.
Extremely well written piece! I was born this month, 73 years ago, during this ban. My mother told tales of rationing and ration stamps, but never mentioned this. Very informative bit of history.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! To day is my mother's 85th birthday...I shall have to ask her about this.
Stirred up a lot of good childhood memories.Sunday spaghetti and meatballs with fresh Italian bread from the bakery.Paper bags of hard rolls to make meatball sandwiches with the leftovers.It's good to look back and appreciate how much your parents provided!
Informative and educational as every episode is and greatly appreciated!
Your videos are tremendous! You give us a down homey feel to history! Nothing beats sliced bread! Your video reminded me of how my mother would sent me to the grocery store to buy sliced Wonder Bread for 25c in the early 1960’s!!
History Guy you are truly a slice above!💯🍞🤓
WONDER-ful. Man can not live by bread alone, we need History Guy episodes!
Pretty well delivered bread trivia. Thanks. GB
Loved this video, I like the presentation and the topic, excellent as always!
I prefer my bread cut like Texas Toast . Incase I'm invited to lunch. Just putting it out there.
I think a lot of us do... atleast the ones who like bread... the ones who usually cut the crusts off or ripnthe end of the bun off when the hotdogs is too short aren't real bread fans.. and I'd be willing to bet that they like thinner bread.
With that name, you might want to refrain from commenting on food related videos! 😂
I actually just threw away two loaves of Texas Toast that were more than 18 months old baked by Franz bakery. A hardly noticeable amount of mold could be seen. They were never opened, left in a cargo trailer with all doors closed. I have to ask myself what in the heck is in that bread.
@@timeflysintheshop LMAO to funny
@@RustyIronProjectsRIP Oh rats, now you tell me! I make a kick ass breakfast sandwich with Texas Toast
I've enjoyed this little slice of history, but then again I enjoy all of them. Keep up the good work.
“Slice of history”. I see what you did there
In my opinion. Sir Lance Geiger. You should be granted a knighthood for your ever diligence when it comes to history. History should never be forgotten regardless of its significance. You have proven that episode after episode and I love every single one of them. I would personally like to see you recognized for your achievement in what you do. I bless you and your family and wish you all the best of health and prosperity. Keep on doing what you're doing. And I will keep watching and learning. Thank you.
Great history content as always. Who knew the history of bread could be so exciting. The only critique I have as a Vermonter is the pronunciation of Barre. Its not Bar-E its Barry. Keep up the great work. I look forward to more THG podcasts over on your website. Your son doesn't seem to have fallen to far from the tree. I love the family involvement. Thanks for helping teach the world about the fascinating history of everything. 👏
I remember slicing homemade bread with electric knife. Wanted to see how thin I could get it. Well my mother put a stop to that quick, if I ever sliced it that thin again!!! One inch thick, fresh and warm goes great with a pat of butter not margarine and tall glass of cold whole milk from the ice box. Well remember Grandma Knowlan milking the cows, separating the cream at 1quart of cream per 5 gallon pail and chilling the gallon the fridge. Worth the wait after picking those strawberries for shortcake with fresh made whipped cream. What cream wasn't whipped it was churned into butter (the up and down method). Yum yum
Pepperidge farm remembers
@@johnrice1943 Very clever, sir! Thanks.
ICE BOX? Oh, Lordy are you old. My father alluz called it an ice box.
I remember hearing a few years ago an interesting anecdote that Betty White is older than sliced bread. Not many people could make that claim!
Come to think of it, my uncle will be 97 in March. I might not remind him of the above fact.
Oh you devil, with that little smirk at the end. I like your style :) Such a pleasant way to learn something new or to view something you thought you knew, from a different perspective. This channel feels like home, and comfort, a familiar feel that I haven't had in a long time. Boomers will know what I mean, and perhaps the next gen up from there ;) Thank you so much for making history feel like a favourite bathrobe/housecoat sort of sensation. It feels warm, comforting, a little frayed around the edges, but in a well worn whimsical good intentioned sort of way, and something that is a pleasure to sink into after a hectic day. Kudos, and Ave (my Latin spelling sucks) Cheers !
Wonderful content, man. Gladly liked and shared.
Watching this while eating toasted sliced bread and drinking tea, on my way to a WW2 museum. How timely! Thanks, History Guy, for another great video!
In England in WWI, if you caught someone with new bread, you’d report them to the Police Sheaf
Have you no shame? That's half baked. Your taking the rise and I can prove it!
(I'll get my coat...)
Just like NOW people reporting their neighbors and, restaurants!! Than people wonder how the nazis did what they did.
@@Peasmouldia Do you think I'm going against the grain? Is it my rye humor? You do't think I'm loafing, do you?
Oooohhh, no you didn't. 😂🤣😂🤣🖖💕
@@markmiller4503 Dude, we're trying to have a laugh here. Yes, I think most of us know the reality of what you said. Why don't you go bother the people that _don't_ know, hmm?
I did enjoy this episode of the History Guy. Having seen several of your videos, I can't help thinking, during your presentation, you would be a very good professional presenter, if not, already. I would like to hear... perhaps see, also... your call of a baseball game, football game, news broadcast, on either radio, or television. Game show host ??? I think you have the voice, and appearance, for bringing entertainment to the masses. Great videos and topics of interest !!!
I’m from Lodi California! I loved hearing about an article in the Lodi news Sentinel! Awesome!
It's the tale of a unelected official who let power go to his head.
Or perhaps Power to his bread?
_Good thing that's a thing of the past and they all use common sense now_!
In other words, the tale of an unelected offical.
Sort of like now in Covid19 times.
The road to Hell is paved by the 'bright ideas' of leftists.
Anyone else get hungry looking at all those bread examples? Anyhow, brought back memories of the war rationing stamps that lingered in mom's 'junk drawer' for years afterward.
I used to love bread but commercial bread has gotten too sweet of late. I keep telling myself to learn how to make my own, but substituting flat breads like tortillas and pita bread is just easier.
@@nolgroth I've taken to artisan breads of late for similar reason. I'm retired, grab 'em off the marked down shelf whenever they show up, still rather expensive but don't have the corn syrup for any sweetness.
One of the best presentations of relevant trivia ever assembled!
Yet another informative and entertaining video. It is truly appreciated. Thank you.
I definitely enjoyed this one, thanks for the memories . My mom always baked bread and my dad always made sure the knives were sharp. Almost too sharp as you said! There's nothing quite like waking up in the morning as a kid to the smell of breakfast cooking and fresh bread in the oven. Except for Christmas morning of course, but then breakfast always came along with that as well.
"Man cannot live on bread alone, he wants it sliced." I gotta remember that one.
I drive through Chillicothe Mo from time to time. To this day there is a road sign that proudly proclaims, "the home of sliced bread". A title well earned!
I love the historical nooks and crannies that you explore-very entertaining.
I remember years ago when Soviet Russia started wrapping their bread to keep it fresh. Citizens were also putting stale bread in the wrappers thinking it would somehow become fresh.
In America, your money says "In God We Trust", in Soviet Union we have no money.
-Yakov Smirnov
@@katieandkevinsears7724 But when the crash happens Russia will be in a much better position than the US.
"The best thinking has been done in solitude, the worst has been done in turmoil"
Thomas Edison.
That is so true
I admire the quote and that you quoted it, but some of the most brilliant world advances have come from times of turmoil (admittedly mainly world turmoil not personal turmoil).
Have a great day all.
@@Cloudman572 you're not wrong, but you also haven't presented a challenge to my point. The idea that necessity is the mother of all invention isn't mutually exclusive to people acting and thinking in a state of panic when shit hits the fan. And it's the thinking done in peacetime, for example, that leads to the advances made in war. The jet engine, for example, and the nuclear bomb, were not actually produced from war, but from peace. The ideas existed before the second world war began. Only their production was hastened by the advent of war. Additionally, war isn't our only necessity. The spear wasn't invented for war, it was invented for hunting. The wheel wasn't invented for war, it was invented for moving heavy loads. Nuclear energy wasn't invented for war, it was invented for power, because we've known since the mid-19th century that carbon is not good for the atmosphere, and nuclear power presents a clean alternative.
@@remielpollard787 War often (but yes not exclusively) speeds the process that happens in times of war and peace.
I hear what you are saying and agree with you though.
I would argue with Mr. Edison that the worst thinking is often done in committee.
You always manage to find something I had a hand in being a part of as a kid.
In "Florence Bakery" in Bensonhurst Brooklyn, NY was my first real job.
Mrs.Florence, baked 5 kinds of bread and 3 different roles every day.
They built a huge brick oven that was powered by cole.
It was my job to clean out the ash and shovel in new cole.
When the next batch of bread was ready I bagged it and sorted out the rolls to bags, stocked the window and did it all over again.
Every day, 7 days a week.
5 days before school. I was 12 years old.
I can almost smell the fresh bread now.
No one can make that kind of bread that good anymore.
That tiny smirk as you held up your sandwich… Loved it!!
YEAH TOAST!!!!!!!!!!
I get up in the mornin bout six am
Have a little jelly have a little jam
I take a piece of bread and I put it in the slot
Press down the button and wires get hot
I get toast YEAH TOAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watching all that bread bake makes me want to eat breakfast again. Fresh homade bread
I have not purchased pre-sliced bread in 19 years...self-made dough, home-baked bread is just so much more delicious and satisfying...
@@bridgestreetgolf mom made home made bread. The first loaf got ate before it cooled spread with our own home made butter from our own cream we separated. Dad did the milking by hand because we only had two milk cows. If you have not ate fresh home made bread with your own butter you have missed one of the finest things in life.
gorgeous elegant tie today!! I just bought one fore the hubbie who inly wears bow ties or skinny ties. that website was great, thanks
and great fun episode
I use the term a lot! Thanks for the history!
A «toast» to you! This is one of the funniest episodes made by THG! Great stuff!
In my country, sliced bread is seen as inferior and is mostly put in the freezer for emergencies. We eat a lot of bread, 95% unsliced and cut bread with a bread knife. I never fully understood why "the best thing since sliced bread" would use sliced bread as something revolutionary but it makes sense if it was basically a fad that coined the term.
I think there are many people that do not know you can freeze bread (I think up to a couple of years) to store it until needed.
The amazing thing is that little factoid about sliced bread outselling unsliced bread in just 5 years after invention.
It is the nearly universal adoption so rapidly across the country that makes the invention and manufacturing of bread slicing machines to be such an impressive thing. In fact it was remarkably well adopted even before the patent office finished the patent paperwork.
In short, the phrase is less about the culinary choices and more about the rapid adoption of an invention.
@@ernestrollins383 Humanity loves our conveniences LOL
You are getting too much Carbs into you.
1932? I was a lad in NZ in the Fifties, and bread at that time was sold as unsliced loaves. Oh! the smell of one bought still warm from the oven.
Wielding a bread knife was definitely a learned skill. How to cut through that firm crust while not crushing the light aery bread within.
I still have my Grandmother's bread knife, inscribed The Aetna Bread Knife, made in the USA by LANDERS, FRARY & CLARK, New Britain, Conn. Pat. May 25 1886, which is before she was born.
Needless to say, it still works a treat.
My grandfather was a baker before, during and after the war years. He injured his left hand severely in a bread slicer accident but had reconstructive surgery and continued to make the best bread in Homestead, PA!
I've always sliced my bread. It gives me both freedom to cut as big or thick slice as I want and proficience with a knife.
But that's for my local bread, which seems to be only local to central Europe. That soft, blocky mass of white something is good for toast and sandwiches, but it doesn't really have a taste of its own. And I guess I wouldn't like to slice *that* myself.
I'm an American and I personally think white bread is disgusting. I do not understand why anyone would want to eat it. Whole wheat is just all around better. I do enjoy slicing the bread that I made myself.
@@gobblox38 Of course, home-made bread or bread from a small bakery will always be the best, the stuff you get in regular shops and supermarkets is not that good. But it is still worthy being called "bread".
"Overzealous bureaucracy" is a big problem nowadays and it is getting worse...
Standby for more...
Put your 😷 on Comrade
Indeed. Ever noticed that the first thing a newly appointed but mediocre middle manager does is to "make his mark" by fixing something that wasn't broken ? Same thing.
This was mentioned in today's paper in the "Today in History" column. The person who wrote it claimed the purpose of the ban was "to save steel for the war effort". Hadn't heard about this before, but not surprised to see that you deemed it History That Deserves to be Remembered.
Your stories always make me smile thank you
The perfect video to go with my toasted sliced bread & peanut butter & jam.
As I recall, Marie Antionette's alleged comment regarding the peasant revolt prior to she and Louis' demise of 'Let them eat cake' or "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" was a reference in her mind to bread. Since Marie was oblivious to "bread" as something other than what the upper *crust* consumed...that being "cake". Seemingly out of touch with the peasantry, her familiarity was with the luxury "bread" consumed by the wealthy-----brioche.
My understanding is that when Marie was told the the peasants had no bread to eat, she replied with the now infamous "let them eat cake" in utter disregard of the plight of the people.
Except that it’s almost definitely not true that she said that.
@@maker-matt Yes, (true story or not) it was an example of how out of touch the aristocracy had become. That is, she thought the peasants were just being picky about what type of food they had rather than knowing bread was their only staple food. IOW "So they ran out of bread, they can just eat some cake instead, right."
@@mytech6779 Yes, thank you, exactly my point, and echoes of what we see again.
"History may not repeat itself, but it certainly does rhyme" Samuel Clemens, if I am not mistaken.
I watched with great interest and found this story a great recap of citizen engagement and bureaucratic response-- within TWO MONTHS of the information being released! THANK YOU THE HISTORY GUY!
Very interesting video on the importance of something I never thought about.
Watching this while eating a Kent Rollins "Cheesy Tuna Melt" on homemade sourdough, which I had to slice myself.
I was gonna say that while watching this I was eating a grilled cheese sandwich made from a loaf I baked the evening before.
@@timinwsac thanks, now I am hungry. 😀
Why is your sandwich named Kent Rollins?
“Fully automatic industrial lines” do I need to submit a form to the ATF for that?
Shhh, be quiet, they just may grab onto that too.
I wish every highschool history teacher was you partner...I may not have skipped class as much n may possibly had graduated...I look at it as no one is too old to learn great job Mr history guy
So had an idea for an episode for you Sir. What say you look into the history of sun spots or solar activity and the resulting weather changes here on the 3rd rock. Might be a very eye opening episode. Love your ability to make history fun to learn for me, history wasn't kind to me in school, wish I had a person such as yourself teaching me, I would have hung on every word and actually learned. Thanks for what you do. It is important to not forget how we arrived here as to not make the same mistakes. If only the politicians would have payed attention to our history ;)
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help!"
said with sincerity, more often than not, even if not always followed up well. and far more likely to be said than "I'm from [Coca-Cola/Microsoft/Disney/Chevron/Boeing/Google] and I'm here to help."
That is the definition of an oxymoron!
@@rogerhorky3178 Actually, I recall that during Katrina, Walmart was delivering supplies more than FEMA
RUn,, as far and as fast as possible.
Thanks to Ronald Reagan for that cautionary tale.
I really enjoyed this topic.
A second lesson from this might be: The Government has no skill (or business) regulating an entire economy.
They really suck at it, yet people are eternally surprised when government monopolies fail or when it costs them a small fortune to do something. I worked in government contracting for awhile and even when they hire a private company to do something it usually costs at least 3x what the same job would cost in the private sector, and that's if there's an open bid that causes competition to drive prices down, if they just hand the job off to a private contractor without an open bid the costs skyrocket from there. I once worked on a job that should have cost around $350-$400 but cost $2000, all they did was replace a single light fixture and a light switch, but the bureaucratic BS caused costs to balloon fast (including requiring a specific light fixture that cost nearly $1000 rather than a better $200 fixture)
You want to rely on "the market"? A Ha ha ha
I have suspected for a long time that there was an interesting story behind that saying and had heard it all my life; but I had no idea how to go about researching such a thing… Thanks for doing that ….great informational video.
This is one WW2 story I've never heard. I love this channel, History Guy you are the best !