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Originally posted by Ponderable
If you have three teenage boys in the house you learn to value the service of the bakery to cut it in slices for you. The bread goes with one meal anyway. Having it cut reduces the discussions on just portions...
Good point, although you can still fight over who gets the heel. When I was a child, that's what we fought over. I can't remember any fights over differently-sized slices. Normally we weren't short of bread, so you could always ask for another slice.

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I think that the saying "the greatest invention since sliced bread" was just a metaphorical joke, trite and meaningless, just so that the compariative would also be criticised without an attributable slur.

The greatest invention, as we all know, is duct tape.

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Originally posted by coquette
The greatest invention, as we all know, is duct tape.
true. we usually call it 'jesus tape' here.

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Originally posted by wormwood
true. we usually call it 'jesus tape' here.
If you don't have an ample supply of duct tape in your home toolbox, you don't have a home toolbox.

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=> Debates!

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Originally posted by skeeter
Tell that to an Italian.

skeets


Originally posted by darvlay
Or a Frenchman.

teets
Ok, fine.

Hey, Italians and Frenchmen!

White bread sucks! Plain and boring, it's worse than vanilla, at least vanilla has a taste!

Happy now?

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Originally posted by Nordlys
I am talking about bread that is already uniformly sliced when you buy it. Supposedly it's a great invention. How many people actually buy it on a regular basis? I think un-presliced bread is a great invention because you can decide yourself how thick you want the slices to be, and it doesn't dry up as easily. Also, the best bread usually comes unsliced, alt ...[text shortened]... I have bought sliced bread because it was the best bread available in that shop at that time.
Why in the hell did you make this post?!
Insiped at best. Perhaps it is the best you can do.
Your attempt is yet another anemic swipe crafted by a weak willed and spineless member of a pitiful mutual admiration society here at rhp.

Your pal,
Frank

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Originally posted by Suzianne
Ok, fine.

Hey, Italians and Frenchmen!

White bread sucks! Plain and boring, it's worse than vanilla, at least vanilla has a taste!

Happy now?
ok the white bread bashing i can take but vanilla?

try making ice-cream, panacotta or crème brûlée using a vanilla pod and tell me it's plain and boring.

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Originally posted by wormwood
true. we usually call it 'jesus tape' here.
meh...

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Good point, although you can still fight over who gets the heel. When I was a child, that's what we fought over. I can't remember any fights over differently-sized slices. Normally we weren't short of bread, so you could always ask for another slice.
In fact there is a higher demand for the heel than for any other slice, even though the victor claims it should make up in thickness what it misses in area.

Oh and it is not a question of going hungry, it's on principle. thinner slices are actually higher in demand since you can have more cheese, wurst or whatever per volume.

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Originally posted by Ponderable
In fact there is a higher demand for the heel than for any other slice, even though the victor claims it should make up in thickness what it misses in area.

Oh and it is not a question of going hungry, it's on principle. thinner slices are actually higher in demand since you can have more cheese, wurst or whatever per volume.
I could still fight over a fresh heel!

Can't you claim thicker slices of cheese, wurst or whatever for thicker slices of bread?

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Originally posted by Nordlys
I could still fight over a fresh heel!

Can't you claim thicker slices of cheese, wurst or whatever for thicker slices of bread?
I'll arm wrestle you for the cheese heel...mmmm...wax😵

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Originally posted by duecer
I'll arm wrestle you for the cheese heel...mmmm...wax😵
just do The Dance and you'll get all the cheesy you could ever want!

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Home made bread is the best, no matter if it's wheat, white, rye, etc. Still warm, with a little butter. Of course it's never pre-sliced, you just made it.

I always thought of Europe as whole loaves, like Italian and French and pumpernickle. I'm curious though, in US, we have many packaged breads that are sliced, inferior ingredients: white flour, sugars, preservatives. Even the watered down types of multigrain "healthy fiber" breads that suck. I was wondering if that type of bread also prevails across the pond? I think its one of the reasons Americans are fatter.

Pre-sliced bread is better for sandwiches with lunch meat, or peanut butter & jelly.

Here's another favorite: Challah (spelling) bread, that jewish bread that has the clumps on top. Is the absolute best for making french toast.

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Originally posted by gregsflat
Home made bread is the best, no matter if it's wheat, white, rye, etc. Still warm, with a little butter. Of course it's never pre-sliced, you just made it.

I always thought of Europe as whole loaves, like Italian and French and pumpernickle. I'm curious though, in US, we have many packaged breads that are sliced, inferior ingredients: white flour, su ...[text shortened]... at jewish bread that has the clumps on top. Is the absolute best for making french toast.
i went to America years ago and noticed the bread i ate was so sweet it was like cake. same as a macdonalds bun.

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