{"id":175,"date":"2021-12-15T05:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/carmenhuang\/?p=175"},"modified":"2021-12-15T05:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:22:06","slug":"the-creation-and-ban-of-sliced-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/carmenhuang\/2021\/12\/15\/the-creation-and-ban-of-sliced-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creation and Ban of Sliced Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bread has been a source of nutrition for thousands of years now, with evidence of humans consuming the food dating back to the Old Stone Age period. However, sliced bread has only been around since the late 1920s and was once prohibited for sale in the 1940s. With this information in mind, how was this modern-day convenience created, and what led to the ban of this product?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the invention of the bread slicer, bread was sold in loaves and required the consumers to cut the bread on their own.\u00a0Because of this, an idea struck Otto Rohwedder – the man who took the world by storm with his creation of the bread slicer machine.\u00a0Rohwedder was a jeweller\u2019s apprentice when the concept dawned upon him.\u00a0He was never pleased with his job and thus began experimenting with the machinery laying around the jewellery shop to develop his idea.\u00a0By 1912, prototypes and blueprints of the final model were completed, however, despite his efforts, a fire soon destroyed his work in 1917.\u00a0While Rohwedder faced these setbacks, he continued to work.\u00a0Eventually, in 1928, he created another machine model and sold a copy to his friend Frank Bench who owned the bakery Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri, USA.\u00a0Another machine was then sent to Gustav Papendick, another baker who later helped improve the engine to keep the slices of bread fresh longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bread slicer machine, created by Otto Rohwedder, changed the world of bakery. (Image Source)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around the same time the invention began spreading, advertisements for sliced bread also started, with the first mention of the product introduced in the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune newspaper.\u00a0Bakeries soon began purchasing Rohwedder\u2019s creation, and thus the production of sliced bread began.\u00a0As 1930 approached, bread slicers became the norm in bakeries and citizens from across the country now consumed factory sliced bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Advertisement of the product created by Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune newspaper began popularizing the item (Image Source)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sliced bread was a success and enjoyed by many, however, as the world war heightened in January 1943,\u00a0the product soon became banned by the government as a way to conserve resources and keep prices low for citizens.\u00a0Contrary to what the government thought, the public reactions to this decision were negative.\u00a0The main reason for this was because of the convenience the product brought to families.\u00a0People no longer had to spend time cutting bread themselves, and because these communities were now accustomed to the luxury of sliced bread,\u00a0many individuals no longer had the tools to cut the bread themselves.\u00a0As a result, people began advocating and fighting for the ban to be lifted; some even went to court to address this ban.\u00a0(crazy to think how much sliced bread meant to people.) Along with this, in a report done by Harrisburg Telegraph at the time,\u00a0they discovered that businesses saw a 5-10% drop in sales since the ban was put in place.\u00a0Although there are many reasons that could explain this drop, many collectively agreed that it was the ban on sliced bread that resulted in this\u00a0decline.\u00a0With all of these complaints being recorded, the ban was finally lifted in March 1943 and since then, sliced bread has been enjoyed freely by citizens around the\u00a0world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Production of sliced bread was later stopped in 1943 due to World War II. This caused negative outrage and the ban was lifted 2 months after it was implemented. (Image Source)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although pre-sliced bread is something that we take for granted in today\u2019s world, it has come a long way, and if it weren\u2019t for Otto Rohwedder creating his bread slicer\u00a0machine,\u00a0we\u2019ll probably still be cutting our own loaves of bread\u00a0today.\u00a0There is no doubt that this invention changed the way for humanity, and as a result, it has created a significant convenience on the way we live in the\u00a0modern-day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nix, Elizabeth. \u201cWho Invented Sliced Bread?\u201d History.com<\/em>, A&E Television Networks, 16 Jan. 2015, https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/who-invented-sliced-bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Time the U.S. Government Banned Sliced Bread.\u201d Mental Floss<\/em>, 3 Jan. 2019, https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/569606\/time-us-government-banned-sliced-bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Was Sliced Bread Invented?: History of Sliced Bread.\u201d Gold Medal Bakery<\/em>, 7 Oct. 2021, https:\/\/www.goldmedalbakery.com\/blog\/when-was-sliced-bread-invented\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Header Image: https:\/\/historydaily.org\/sliced-bread-best-thing-since-itself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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