Why It Was Illegal For 47 Days to Slice Bread in the US

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[@tim..indeed]

For anyone curious, people would also slice their bread before 1928. What was invented that year was pre-sliced bread.

[@SanSamurae]

Wouldn't pre-sliced bread be just bread?

[@soundscape26]

I mean, all you need is a knife...

[@Georgije2]

I think that people who are too lazy to watch a 6 minute video are also too lazy to scroll down and read your comment.

[@davidwu8420]

@@SanSamurae Normal bread hardens and dries once sliced, and even makes it easier for mold to grow. Pre-sliced bread involved the invention of a new bread recipe involving a bunch of additives and new sealing methods for the bags as well.

[@icarusunited]

​@@davidwu8420 Not to mention dedicated machines to do it. Previously they would heat the blade to slice it. Basically pasteurizing the cut sections, and storing it for up to a week for smaller families. Pre-Sliced Bread was pre-sliced with this method in addition to new recipes to extend the life of the bread.

[@tylerfeichthaler3790]

The fact that sliced bread wasn’t invented until 1928 is kind of insane to me.

[@max_208]

Thing is, normal bread hardens when in contact with the air (in like a day or two), sliced bread is fundamentally different from normal bread and isn't affected as much. Inventing sliced bread wasn't only inventing a cutting machine but generally reinventing the recipe for bread.

[@wasbear]

Sliced bread isn't even 100 years old yet, jeez

[@Jehty21]

The more insane fact is that US-Americans are apparently dependent on pre-sliced bread?! Or is the video talking about toast?

[@benjaminlynch9958]

No kidding. Like, did people pre-1928 not eat sandwiches? Or toast? Or toasted sandwiches?

[@metazoxan2]

@@Jehty21 American diets heavily use bread in a lot of basic recipies. This was likely especially so when most alternatives to bread were heavily rationed by the government. It was a "Can't buy that extra steak for dinner but can buy a few more loaves of bread to keep you full." kind of thing.

[@ninjawarrior8994]

This video is the best thing since sliced bread was made legal again in the US.

[@77elite9]

What is the best thing since sliced bread Edit: it seems no one can find the reference in this reply Hint: This exact thing I said is in some game within a series

[@cheesball96]

Loool

[@adamazingballs]

You don't need a vpn they're garbage.

[@Rippervain]

this comment is the best thing since sliced bread

[@sunlight9056]

Smooth

[@jbird4478]

You know what else was invented in 1928? Penicillin. Penicillin is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[@jbird4478]

@benrey No. Penicillin can only make you not die from a bad chicken sandwich. It is pretty useless without sliced bread

[@dex6316]

@benrey penicillin can keep you alive enough to eat 2 chkn sandwich. Seems like a win in my book.

[@funnybaduser9246]

@@dex6316 no point in being alive though unless there is a chiaknm samish

[@iamcurious9541]

@benrey You could slice it yourself. With a good knife it's about as difficult as slicing a tomato. It's only pre sliced bread that was invented recently. And if you slice at home, it keeps fresh twice as long. Or with half the preservatives.

[@groundedgaming]

@@funnybaduser9246 there is no way to stay alive for cikehn sedwash if there is no penicillin

[@biopapapa]

"Sir, you have been arrested." "Why?" "You arent allowed to slice bread."

[@nathanaelmalm5641]

@The wock shut up

[@lewatoaofair2522]

THAT GUY HAS A SANDWICH!! BOOK HIM!!!

[@VeraTR909]

Bake him away, toys.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

"PUT YOUR HANDS UP! DROP YOUR BREAD SLICER!"

[@danielbishop1863]

Technically, it wasn't the *slicing* of bread that was banned; it was the buying and selling of sliced bread. You could slice as much bread as you wanted for personal non-commercial use.

[@realbismarck]

The fact sliced bread was illegal for more days than Liz Truss was in office is mind boggling.

[@jeremydale4548]

I honest to god wonder if ANYONE fought them on it like "Uh, WHY the hell are we illegalizing this when it doesn't hurt anyone?

[@PaulMcElligott]

From the invention of gunpowder to WWII. Hell of a jump cut.

[@mostsharksdontattendchurch3790]

He did some mining off camera.

[@ethankoh6851]

Viewer retention satisfied

[@aussiejezza]

shit went from 0-100 real fast

[@sawsbone7303]

@@mostsharksdontattendchurch3790 🤣🤣

[@itsmefm]

I'm sorry, I know you put not to subscribe but you were at 199 so I became your 200th sub Also, I completely forgot about Google+ until now lol

[@shadowdagger2]

Sliced Bread was invented in 1928. Betty White was born in 1922. Sliced bread is the greatest thing since Betty White

[@prim16]

Betty White Bread

[@Redwan777]

@@prim16 White Betty Bread

[@djpegao]

Betty Wheat

[@asheep7797]

White Bread

[@lonyo5377]

2 ply toilet paper was invented in 1942.

[@YouAreBreathing]

Wow, so Betty White and Queen Elizabeth were both older than sliced bread.

[@lonestarr1490]

Indeed.

[@m82m107barrett]

Sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White

[@lotsofspots]

David Attenborough still is!

[@jking6736]

God I miss Betty White one of the few celebrities that wasn't crazy or very controversial

[@joemckenna1362]

Only pre silced bread people still sliced their bread

[@leo.girardi]

You didn't mention that the idea of conserving metal (machining/tooling, etc) backfired because all the housewife's went out and had to buy bread knives.

[@tom4ivo]

Even worse, (almost) nobody can slice bread as thinly and evenly as a bread slicing machine. To get the same amount of slices, people had to buy more bread, which meant demand for bread went up, which meant demand for flour went up, which was going up in price.

[@MynameisBrianZX]

@@tom4ivo it would be more feasible the stiffer the loaf is, but I’m guessing factory-made loaves were as soft as they are today, which would deform under the pressure of the knife and throw off the cutting angle

[@greggv8]

@@MynameisBrianZX slicing machines move the blades back and forth rapidly. I assume the direction of every other blade is alternating so that any tendency of the bread to move along with the blade is countered by the opposing motion of the blades to either side.

[@soundscape26]

Didn't they have knives for other culinary purposes already?

[@tom4ivo]

@@soundscape26 Yes, but they were for other culinary purposes. Not well suited for slicing bread.

[@Daimlerxy_]

Sliced bread was basically the “pre cut veggies” of yesterday

[@tsartomato]

plastic wrapped pre-peeled bananas

[@Redwan777]

@@tsartomato plastic wrapped pre-peeled oranges.

[@skyrask1948]

@@Redwan777 TIL that in US pre-peeled oranges exist and for at least 6 years that is kind of insane tbh.

[@tsartomato]

@@Redwan777 at least oranges are an ENORMOUS ASS to peel all of citrus but tangerines refuse to get peeled and only lemons are tastier with the peel

[@tsartomato]

@@Redwan777 meanwhile bananas have literal trigger that insta peels them

[@RoundHouseDictator]

Bread not being rationed in a war goes a long way in explaining why my patriotic great aunt would stretch every meal with bread even when they could afford to stop that

[@krystinaszabo4811]

And why my dad to this day "breads" every single plate, cooking utensil and cooking container. He rubs it with bread to soak up ANYTHING at all left.

[@Devin_Stromgren]

@@krystinaszabo4811 That practice goes back WAY further that WWII. People have probably been doing that since the invention of bread. For example, in the medieval period you even used bread to clean up any food you spilled on yourself, making your bread double as a napkin.

[@clarencegreen3071]

There's a word for that: sopping. You might use a piece of bread to sop up the last of the gravy left on your plate.

[@MarsJenkar]

@@Devin_Stromgren Yeah, I suspect that it had already gained popularity during the Great Depression, and merely _continued_ to be used during WW2. Wouldn't be surprised if it had risen in popularity during previous economic crunches as well.

[@TheKeksadler]

Technically the bread slicer used in Chillicothe was invented in St Joseph, MO- where the inventor actually lived, but his baker acquaintance in Chillicothe was the first one who decided to use the machine commerically.

[@reilandeubank]

Funny to hear about St Joe in a KZbin comment section

[@swampdonkey1567]

Was just the their earlier, I live north of Cameron Mo if any y'all know were that is.

[@swampdonkey1567]

@Coleman Harmon very close, pattonsburg, If you have every heard of it.

[@reilandeubank]

@@swampdonkey1567 that’s cool! I’m from Maryville though I’m at college rn

[@OriginalDonutposse]

@Coleman Harmon isn’t it chilly-coat? Did he say chill-coffee?

[@norbertasc9126]

"Hey bro, you got the good stuff" "Yea, just a quarter a slice" "Nice, gimme 3"

[@OceanAce]

That would've been someone's daily wage back in those times

[@iamcurious9541]

That isn't actually all that terrible. In Germany bread prices have doubled this year. There are about a dozen slices per loaf. At a quarter each the loaf costs 3$ (Which is currently 3€). In reality the good bread costs 3.50€. American style "bread" is still at about 1.50€.

[@rubengoldman5830]

I cannot stop laughing at the simple phrase "Alleyway Bread Salesman"

[@norbertasc9126]

@@iamcurious9541 Yea, the nice, black, rye bread is expensive these days...

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

@@rubengoldman5830 Alleyway Pre-Sliced Bread Salesman

[@lgs6025]

That's not Otto Rohwedder at 0:17. That is former GDR leader Erich Honecker!

[@BarryToneLP]

Yea, pretty sure that's Honecker, had to stop the video to take a second look😁

[@MasterTRL]

Yep, it is Honecker. I spotted it and I'm not even an Ossi.

[@Lumpenheinz]

He somehow googled "Erich Rohwedder" for this picture!

[@peterwolanko]

Definitely. That must have been a honeypot joke.

[@erikgstewart]

People in Wiebelskirchen call him "Otto Rohwedder" to avoid mentioning his real name. And Erich had fresh German sliced bread shipped to Chile right until the end... (Just kidding)

[@markrothenbuhler6232]

OPA Red and Blue points are also now collectable tokens. They all have two letter combinations which makes it a nice series to try and get. Most are really cheap but some of the rarer letter combos have high prices.

[@barackobama2968]

Can you still use them on stuff?

[@gaojen3365]

Your opener, reminded me of when the Kellogg company tried introducing boxed cereal to South Korea in the early '90's. The primary feedback which was received was that the cereal tasted good, and it made consuming milk more palatable (South Koreans did not normally drink milk). But the number one complaint was that it was so much to eat in one sitting.

[@benfll]

How was cereal normally distributed there?

[@gaojen3365]

@@benfll When introduced they were using the normal sized boxes. Before then, cereal wasn't marketed to South Koreans directly. Milk, was a fairly new product introduced some 3-5 years earlier.

[@BJGvideos]

So why not just...you know...pour less?

[@gaojen3365]

@@BJGvideos That is the Face Palm. For some reason no one had ever explained that aspect of the product, and it was not intuitive to do so.

[@BJGvideos]

@@gaojen3365 How in the world do people not just pick how much of something they want to eat?

[@luminescentlion]

The political satire in this one is amazing

[@CraigChrist8239]

"oh wait, wrong century" Lmao, brutal

[@rayers1000]

If someone doesn't make that post I'm gonna be a little sad lol

[@sackofclams953]

Ehh it’s kind of lame to include the huge disclaimer on the Biden-Harris admin but then leave the implication that libertarians are cool with people being homeless. I assume they did it so they don’t get chastised by KZbin

[@beebfajeejy]

he went for the libertarians' throats and it was incredible

[@icarusunited]

@@sackofclams953 The law of equivalent exchange.

[@chriskoch1241]

Also in Missouri: Gordon C Gilbert, by Grandfather, invented taking that loaf of sliced bread and putting it in a plastic bag with a twist tie. Before that, bread was sealed in wax paper and not re-sealable.

[@earthboundisawsome]

Just trying to imagine something as simple as pre-sliced bread being so revolutionary that it spooked people at first is just... It's honestly kind of funny to imagine what kinds of things that seem normal to us now will make us look like monkey brains 100 years in the future.

[@seanmax9470]

vending machine pizza

[@eckitera]

There are already pizzas served on vending machines...

[@Tarooo89]

Just because people in history didn’t have technology doesn’t mean they were dumb. Sliced bread came about before there was specific packaging for it and before the bread was full of sugar and preservatives. The original sliced bread was a jumbled mess that spoiled quickly. I really hate it when people assume primitive = stupid. Many of the concepts, laws, and equations that drive our technology, that are still used to this day, were conceived by people that didn’t even have indoor plumbing. 19th century Prussian officers had better knowledge of calculus than the average modern college graduate.

[@traveller23e]

Well, pre-sliced bread is kinda a dumb concept...The advantage of not slicing until you need to is with most kinds of bread the crust will help keep the inside from getting stale, making it last longer. The alternative I've seen in modern sliced breads is to pump them so full of preservatives that they'll mold before they go stale. Unfortunately this sacrifices taste and texture for convenience, at least in my opinion, although the fact that "bakery" sections of grocery stores selling non-presliced bread are a thing in the US would imply that I'm far from alone in that thinking.

[@johngalt97]

Kind of like when bottled water started showing up for sale?

[@jk-qj2qz]

If you've ever met anyone from Chillicothe you'll immediately know 1. Their name 2. That they're from Chillicothe 3. And that Chillicothe is the home of sliced bread

[@Beyondneat]

Accurate

[@eaglescout1984]

"I got it! Make sliced bread illegal!" (42 days later) "Why didn't anyone remind me women can vote?!"

[@Lucas003_]

"Daddy, I'm hungry, can you slice me some bread?" "Why, sure thing so-" **POUND POUND POUND** "FBI OPEN UP"

[@elfeiin]

bruh I can hear the pounding

[@tsartomato]

bread is cut standing up, sonny

[@VitaeLibra]

@@elfeiin wait... WTF

[@elfeiin]

@@VitaeLibra wat

[@VitaeLibra]

@@elfeiin I heard it too but only realized when I read your comment

[@janaeck7494]

0:16 So Erich Honecker not only lead the GDR (East Germany) for nearly 20 years, but he also brought sliced bread to the US. What a man.

[@scottfrancis-key3644]

Ha! Why did he use Honecker's pic? The actual guy doesn't even look like Honecker.

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

Truly one of the men of all time.

[@vimsi]

danke :D ich dachte schon ich spinne :D

[@petro9997]

@@vimsi joar hab mich auch erstmal am Kopf gekratzt :D

[@klaus-udokloppstedt6257]

came here to see if anyone else has already mentioned the wrong photo. indeed this is Erich Honecker. photo was taken at the Leipziger Messe (Industrial exhibition) March 1985. on the larger original photo there is Dr. Detlev Rohwedder, CEO of West German Hoesch-AG, directly on Honeckers left side (right side on photo). that's why the name 'Rohwedder' appears in the description and probably caused it to be a google hit. but creator didn't bother to translate photo`s description ( commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1985-0310-122,_Leipzig,_Fr%C3%BChjahrsmesse,_Honecker,_Rohwedder,_Br%C3%A4utigam.jpg ).

[@felixemerictota]

0:16 The guy in the photo is not Otto Rohwedder - it's Erich Honecker, who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the top right corner of the is a guy named Hans OTTO Bräutigam and cropped out is a guy named Detlev ROHWEDDER.

[@ccooper8785]

In the UK they banned the sale of freshly baked bread during WW2. The bread had to be 1 day old; this made it easier for you to slice it thinly.

[@leonsjacketre4]

Oh wow, really? I guess the British took rationing more in stride, stiff upper lip and all? Cause I never heard of it. Edit: Well, I only found an article online for WWI. They say it was 12 hours, and it was said it was 5% more nutritious and people might eat it less.

[@lordgarion514]

@@leonsjacketre4 Not so much "more in stride" than Americans. But more along the lines of *we're about to die and need to do everything we can to survive* American's were never remotely in that kind of danger. In fact, Americans were NEVER in danger at all.

[@1.4142]

It should be a JetLag challenge to go to a local bakery and manually slice bread.

[@danteteeter6567]

As someone working at a scratch bakery, hand slicing bread fucking sucks. I hate it.

[@pattimaska4124]

My 90 year old father told me that when margarine was first introduced, it was white. A yellow capsule was inserted to knead color (usually done by the younger kids) into it. The reason? The Powers That Be were afraid people would think margarine was butter. I'm sure the Dairy Council had nothing to do with this decision!

[@debra1363]

My mom told me it was her job as the youngest child to work the yellow pill into the margarine.Just one taste and you will immediately know it's not butter!I never tasted real dairy butter until I was 16 and I never went back.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

Margarine was not legal in Missouri until sometime after 2000. The ban was rarely enforced.

[@rich1051414]

I am shocked at how many people don't realize how different margarine tastes to butter. They aren't the same thing at all.

[@laffi]

Not only is sliced bread great to have, but freezing it after buying it makes you able to keep it for as long as you want, without it going bad. All you gotta do is heat it in the microwave or have the slices of bread you want in the oven for 10 minutes...or simply in a bread toaster. Works very well for me, who doesn't eat bread every single day, and having the bread last for up to 2-3 weeks.

[@axiezimmah]

I usually take out the bread I need from the freezer a few hours in advance so it can naturally defrost. That way it will taste like fresh, without toasting it or dehydrating it from the microwave

[@laffi]

@@axiezimmah I was gonna make a hamburger, and the hamburger bread was frozen, for the same reason as the normal bread. It laid whole at my kitchen desk for only 30 minutes, and was almost ready to be eaten. Bread would be half that layer.

[@Crowski]

My grandmother taught me this. All I use bread for is toast. 😂 In the oven for a bit, top with a slice of cheese and 2 over medium eggs. 🎉🎉

[@DrZaius3141]

I would argue that a major point was also the longevity of sliced bread, i.e. it goes off a lot quicker and when rationing is a thing, you want to emphasize food stuffs that last longer (y'know, blue point stuff). Of course I say that as a European where pre-sliced bread is rather new and hugely unpopular, which in turn stems from the fact that I could easily get bread from my local super market that's still warm to hot-ish from being fresh out of the oven. "Destroying" fresh food by slicing it leads just to a gigantic drop in quality.

[@Yoonie_Stars]

Idk where in Europe you live but in the Netherlands pre-sliced bread had been popular for a very long time. Usually the supermarket lets the bread cool down before slicing it. At a bakery it's usually unsliced but they'll ask you if you want it sliced and do that for you.

[@luispagano]

Yeah, it isn't that popular on here, Argentina, either It isn't a new thing, longevity depends on if you can afford a freezer, but for the price of a loaf of sliced bread you can get a kilo of most other common kinds of bread It's just not worth it

[@haukenot3345]

When I grew up in Germany in the nineties, it was still quite unusual to buy bread pre-sliced. Instead, we used to have an electronic breadslicer on the kitchen counter. Nowadays, breadslicers have largely disappeared, and sliced bread has become more common. Buying unsliced bread is still quite popular, but today, it's usually a conscious decision (quality and longevity over convenience). Given the importance of bread culture in Germany and the strong opinions some Germans hold about bread, I wouldn't be surprised if DrZaius is German as well.

[@TonyHammitt]

Yeah, we don't care about quality. An ideal American lunch is one that takes less time to prepare than eat, even when eating it in our usual hurry. We make instant coffee in microwave ovens because that's all we have time for. So, what's it like enjoying food? Sounds pretty awesome...

[@DrZaius3141]

@@haukenot3345 Good call, although as an Austrian I have to strongly deny claims of me being German. There's just a stark difference in quality between sliced and full-loaf bread, even at the same price. And higher quality bread is hardly ever sliced. I remember a holiday in NA back in 2000 when me and my entire family was astonished by the fact that all the bread you could buy was sliced. The quality was also as alluded to.

[@y33t23]

Otto Rohwedder is crazy looking like Erich Honecker

[@mccm2402]

Thats cuz it's Honecker Is this an inside joke I'm not getting? www.wikiwand.com/de/Hoesch_AG#Media/Datei:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1985-0310-122,_Leipzig,_Fr%C3%BChjahrsmesse,_Honecker,_Rohwedder,_Br%C3%A4utigam.jpg

[@eragonawesome]

Around the 0:56 second mark the calendar for February starts with a 3 and I'm genuinely curious as to whether it was intentional or just someone copying one of the other calendars and missing it

[@PeterBarnes2]

Could be that January 31st 1943 was renamed February 3rd 1943.

[@saaraskoog2609]

@@PeterBarnes2 Also, the number of days shown for the ban equal to 50, not 47.

[@mrstudent9125]

I can tell that this is a semi entertaining, semi educational video even without watching it.

[@juppertv]

Ever heard of the term "Edutainment"

[@Redwan777]

That why it's called Half As Interesting.

[@JimboRustles]

@@Redwan777 About half as interesting as watching paint dry

[@Wm7forthewin]

@@JimboRustles true

[@soundscape26]

@@juppertv Yes but that word sounds awful tbh.

[@sbeyer17]

I'm German, and we have the option to get our bread sliced in the bakery but normally I take unsliced bread because I've got a special bread cutti g machine at home and the bread stays in general longer fresh and tastes better when sliced fresh.

[@Graymenn]

i am american, what is a bakery?

[@Graymenn]

you mean a panera?

[@sbeyer17]

@@Graymenn hm, a panera is a bakery-café chain, so somehow kinda

[@Graymenn]

@@sbeyer17 lol i was being sarcastic, because we dont have very many real bakeries in america like you do in germany

[@sbeyer17]

@@Graymenn hm, I don't really know about that. But in recent years (~10) there's a rise of bakeries getting integrated into supermarkets (discounters) but they don't sell as good bread as standalone bakeries because they don't make the bread themself. And very few bakeries do still make their own flour but there're still some

[@RatishNAIR100]

The libertarism joke must the funniest thing ever to explain supply and demand. I haven't laughed that hard in a while

[@jokubas3391]

r/libertarian turned leftist these days. r/anarcho_capitalism is the hub. I agree everyone should be able to buy one bedroom apartments, that is the reason I want to abolish the government (or at least the federal reserve)

[@geoffstrickler]

@@jokubas3391 So, you went from modern libertarianism to an even more extreme version of libertarianism?

[@jokubas3391]

@@geoffstrickler I used to be an extremist. Thought I had a right to my neighbours money. Now I am just human. I realized that only voluntary or self defense action is moral. Which is the least extreme moral foundation there could possibly be. r/libertarian isn't even "modern libertarianism". There are plenty of "libertarian socialists" hanging around there. Plus that sub doesn't allow pictures, is dead, most people are just neoliberalis who maybe dislike left economics a bit more or people who consider themselves "socially liberal, fiscally conservative", which is not what libertarianism is.

[@geoffstrickler]

@@jokubas3391 Anarcho-capitalism is delusional. The belief that "the market" will keep greed and corruption in check, or that courts can adequately address all harms caused by greed, negligence, or corruption is disproven by thousands of years of history. Government is necessary, because there are greedy, selfish, corrupt people who will pervert "the market" for their own enrichment, regardless of the harm done to others, or to society. The only theory more delusional is Georgist/LVT cultists.

[@187deathfromabove]

@@jokubas3391 i just go on libertarianmeme which is still very libertarian.

[@algorscutula]

"It's the best thing since..." Cop: points gun

[@9PlatinumGamer9]

So the saying "the best thing since sliced bread" actually refers to factory-sliced bread and not any bread cut with a knife?

[@iapetusmccool]

Did anyone think otherwise?

[@wiiztec]

@@iapetusmccool savage

[@mustang8206]

obviously

[@debra1363]

Yes,people actually did slice bread before the advent of PRE-sliced bread.A lot of people in these comments seem to think that nobody ever thought to slice a loaf of bread with a knife or do they think that ppl either tore chunks off the bread or had to eat the whole loaf in one sitting?This generation has truly seen the death of logic.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@debra1363 this generation is acting exactly the way they were brought to. So blame the parents for being too busy sniffing LSD or whatever boomers did in 60s, I wasn't alive during Woodstock.

[@hmmm3210]

When the factories said it's slicin' time and sliced all over when slicing was legalised it truly created one of the breads of all time.

[@beyondobscure]

agreed

[@TheFirstCurse1]

While I do love this meme, it didn't work here.

[@beyondobscure]

@@TheFirstCurse1 lies heresy blasphemy

[@averagejoey2000]

I can't believe I can recognize the morbius format

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

I don't think they just created one of the breads of all time, it's a factory soo you may assume they at least did 3.

[@ianshaver8954]

I love that the people trying to create a life extending elixir ended up creating a life ending elixir instead.

[@KasumiRINA]

Oh it does extend your life if you're on the other side of the barrel.

[@psychott6]

Because killing is a lot easier than living.

[@jonasklose5760]

The picture you showed for Otto Rohwedder is actually a picture of Erich Honecker, former head of state of the former GDR. Otto Frederick Rohwedder has his own Wikipedia article where they have a picture of him.

[@eriktruboar1540]

Interesting fact. Highway 36 that goes across northern Missouri has numerous famous people from its route. West to East you have the pony express, J. C. Penny, Sliced bread, John Pershing, Walt Disney, and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

[@paulverse4587]

Advertising NordVPN to be able to circumvent "those pesky data protection regulations", so that companies can suck off all your data as they want is a new level I haven't anticipated.

[@HughNeylan]

Also, what websites still just block EU traffic? There were quite a few with GDPR first became law, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve come across one recently…

[@wtfhithere]

@@HughNeylan some US news sites still do, can't remember which off the top of my head but I think mostly local/state ones

[@krashd]

@@HughNeylan You'd be surprised. Every now and again I click on a news article for some US newspaper and get the "You're in Europe and we hate that we can't syphon off and sell your cookie data so go fuck yourself" page.

[@StYxXx]

Also the next statement about safety was kind of illogical: Use vpn to have your data protected while being sent to a website that doesn't protect your data at all :D

[@KasumiRINA]

@@StYxXx lol yeah, also VPNs don't protect your data. The safety-paranoia schtick used by their ads is misleading.

[@vruhhehduejj9896]

The libertarian roast was too accurate 💀

[@kxngduvie7682]

I don't get it can you explain?

[@OptimusWombat]

Was that a real post? I want to read all of the salty comments.

[@Tyrentenir]

@@kxngduvie7682 Libertarians believe in very little government interference, and believe in the magical properties of The Free Market™ to decide all factors of pricing. Which in their simplified economics is a just an intersection of supply and demand curves. Many are therefore against the idea of a minimum wage, let alone a liveable wage. They would also be against the idea that housing be made affordable, because the high demand for housing from investors drives housing prices, and their ability to price-gouge renters is therefore sacrosanct. So you would likely get a rant about your naivety in thinking that poor people ought to be able to live on the wages of a full time job, because supply and demand should make the prices.

[@acctsys]

I for one am self-aware, and yes, forget supply and demand, and I will jump on you. 😊

[@Alsadius]

Roast? Seemed to be praise to me. How many other political groups know economic principles en masse? The fact that they can give a decent answer puts them way ahead of most.

[@Bird_Dog00]

As a continental european I never got the idea of pre-sliced bread. That was until I found myself on holiday in Ireland and we bought some bread and they offered to pre-slice it for us. Good thing we accepted the offer. That bread would have been impossible to cut with a normal bread knife. It would just have desintegrated. I guess, pre-sliced bread does make sense if your bread is softer then the science in Reboot-Trek....

[@YgramNolles]

If you go to the netherlands you find sliced bread but it is the same as regular bread since you're supposed to freeze it. This way it stays fresh without having to eat sponges

[@rayoflight62]

The typical European bread is made from only four ingredients, it has a thick crust, and is very healthy. The ancient Romans prepared the bread two thousands years ago with this same recipe. The UK-US sliced bread recipe contain many dozens of ingredients; it is very dissimilar from the traditional EU bread (which in the US it is called San Francisco bread), and I'm convinced that isn't that healthy, for what it is more of a cake than real bread...

[@YgramNolles]

@@rayoflight62 that is true, I mostly say this to prove you don't need to include every element on the periodic table in your bread to make it not dry out

[@Bird_Dog00]

@@YgramNolles lol true. My local supermarket sells a realy good wheat-rye sourdough bread that doesn't use any aditives and stays good for a week. Literaly. I bought a half-kilo loaf last friday and whats left of it now is stil good to eat.

[@Inkompetent]

@@YgramNolles Freezing bread ruins its taste though. Not as bad as freezing potatoes, of course, but still... Yuck! Frozen bread is only good for one thing: toast.

[@XLikeaBlazerX]

That ending tho “because we infuriated a bunch of women who now know their way around a knife” I’m dead!!

[@Proleadsoft]

You’re the funniest person and I learn soo much from you. Please never stop making videos!!

[@CatsT.M]

It is on the Wikipedia page for sliced bread.

[@parallax_review]

Not sure if the Erich Honecker pic is some kind of Easter egg or a real mistake

[@k_wilson9]

Yeah… that stuck out.

[@macmac277]

"This war is horrible!" "I know right? All those millions of lives-" "I can't have my sliced bread because of it damn it!" "..."

[@zuglymonster]

The ancestors of "you can't make me social distance"

[@spacemissing]

A prime example of the unwritten rule that is nevertheless never broken: No government, corporation, or other organisation with more than one brain in control can Ever allow anything that makes sense to be done.

[@JKanimations7718]

Hey wait a minute *slams desk* THIS ISNT ABOUT BRICKS YOUR HONOR!

[@Alsadius]

At 1:01, you said that gunpowder was invented in the 9th century BCE. It was the 9th century CE, not BCE. (If you prefer the traditional nomenclature, that's AD instead of BC.)

[@thefinnishbaconshroom]

No wonder people were scared of Frankenstein if they were scared of a sliced bread

[@jakobgiraud9686]

That grocery store picture with empty shelves of toilet paper at 2:37 is Kroger #364 in the Houston division in Texas. This was during Covid rush in 2020, and I was the eCommerce Lead there in charge of the cubside pickup at the time, and took this picture. (This is when we were doing 800% + sales vs last year. 120 hour weeks were not fun...) How in the world did I end up watching this video and recognizing this...

[@64imma]

When I was in spain in 2019, the website for my hometowns newspaper was blocked because of eea restrictions

[@christiansrensen5958]

Sliced bread was invented in 1928 by John Slice, the maternal grandfather of Edward Scissorhands.

[@jus7040]

Grandgrandson of Jack the Ripper. (His daily bread was a mess.)

[@christiansrensen5958]

@@jus7040 😆clumpy chunks I can imagine.

[@Coolpenguin124]

Starbucks barista here, we do think we deserve to be able to afford apartments

[@OriginalDonutposse]

But, muh free market. How dare you!

[@DangerAngelous]

Ultimate insult to use: “You’re the reason bread had to have instructions”

[@Ryyyaaaaannn]

ngl this is my favorite HAI video you've done and I was here since it was that wikipedia list

[@swampdonkey1567]

As a Missourian, especially as one that goes to the nearbyissh county of Davies county from pattonsburg mo( a small town with it own interesting history in short we moved the entire town after the 93 flood 3 miles, in short basically what Patrick said for bikini bottom) And going to college to NCMC in trenton which is very close chillicothe Missouri. Sliced bread is....a bit.... of....MY BREAD AND BUTTER

[@Brownyman]

Rumor has it that Prax Meng’s new yeast strain has really improved bread output for the OPA.

[@spacechemsol4288]

Why on earth is there a picture of Erich Honecker (General Secretary of the SED in East Germany) at 0:16 when talking about Otto Rohwedder?

[@iginheo]

Can we all just appreciate 8 cent Jello?

[@motnosniv]

I'm old but not that old...

[@phillipeffertz6346]

Its nice to know sliced bread was first commercialy produced in by home state of Missouri.

[@TheKeksadler]

Missouri was a pretty important and creative state in the early 20th Century. Look up the "Genius Highway", there's something about the cities along that highway that spawned many well-known figures.

[@PuppyLuvU2]

Peter Griffin in 1928: Oh wow, this is the worst thing since sliced bread! "Cutaway gag to a guy cutting a loaf of bread into slices and people freaking out and getting angry and violent"

[@creativejamieplays7185]

Can we appreciate how at 1:50 the stock footage is someone scanning vegetables with seemingly no barcode on.

[@gand00lf35]

Did you use a picture of Erich Honecker?

[@drasleek6170]

Apperciate that you chose to use firefox!

[@andrewk9267]

Very interesting timing, juxtaposed with the Johnny Harris video also on sliced bread

[@Kritiker1Punkt0]

A quick image search suggests that the man at 0:17 isn't Otto Rohwedder but the east german leader Erich Honecker.

[@greggv8]

The bit about saving steel was ludicrous because the bread slicing machines already existed and anyone with the brainpower to stand upright knew it.

[@KasumiRINA]

Maintenance? Remember you could have repaired a bread slicing machine or send another truck to Allies as part of lend-lease.

[@randomperson01]

The sliced bread ban was the worse thing since before sliced bread

[@justinwatson1510]

Your sense of humor is impeccable.

[@timothyhart4269]

2:27 I don’t know who wrote this line, but someone woke up and chose chaos. Love it

[@mrbloodhound009]

Gunpowder was synthesized in the 9th century CE, not BCE. You better put this comment in the mistakes video. >:(

[@theidioticbgilson1466]

and this reply

[@Jabberwockybird]

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[@alexandergilles8583]

Jimmy Carter was born in 1924. Sliced bread was invented in 1928. Jimmy Carter is older than sliced bread

[@james10739]

That sounds exactly what happens when government gets involved in stuff like this that they have no business being involved in

[@Sleeepy.]

The segue to the sponsorship was beautifully done

[@Kaiyats]

What are you in for? - I ate sliced bread 😳 There’s some bad people in here Bri…

[@DrunkInPublic]

Seriously sliced bread wasnt a thing until 1928?!?!?

[@praenomen6290]

*Machine-*sliced bread.

[@max_208]

Thing is, normal bread hardens when in contact with the air (in like a day or two), sliced bread is fundamentally different from normal bread and isn't affected as much. Inventing sliced bread wasn't only inventing a cutting machine but generally reinventing the recipe for bread.

[@motnosniv]

heck, we didn't even have zip codes until the 1960s

[@Apeiron242]

It was sliced. Not "presliced". Prestop preadding pre to verbs. We already have a way to mark some action as having occurred in the past. It's called past tense. The past tense of slice is sliced.

[@thewolfleader500]

"Man, this is the best thing since sli-" "You're under arrest."

[@xbrandi12345x]

When I hear about ridiculous things from the past, it makes me wonder what things people will look back on 100 years and think are ridiculous that we do. Imagine getting locked up for being a habitual bread slicer!! 😂 I have to go Google and see if I can find anyone that was

[@minecrafter0505]

As a German, I find the lack of the term "pre-sliced bread" in this video very american.

[@Madvlo]

as a german as you say you are , you should recognise Erich Honecker 0:16

[@dz7se]

​@@Madvlo Hätte ihn auch nicht erkannt, aber der ist auch schon 1994 gestorben ^^

[@Madvlo]

@@dz7se kennen Sie Ihre Geschichte.

[@dz7se]

@@Madvlo Ist ja streng genommen nicht mal meine Geschichte, da ich in Bayern aufgewachsen bin. Trotzdem wusste ich schon, wer Honecker war; ich muss ihn ja nicht auf der Straße wiedererkennen können

[@greggv8]

Regarding all the comments about freezing bread. The trick is to put the loaves in the freezer upside down. Then when you take a loaf out to thaw, place it right side up. Somehow that keeps the bottom crust from getting damp and tough.

[@michaelmagnusson380]

The picture at 0:16 does not depict Otto Rohwedder, but Erich Honecker, former chairman of the state coucil of the GDR haha

[@kwang7169]

Hey HAI, been a big fan of your videos, but a small correction at 1:00: Gunpowder was invented by the Taoists in the 9th century CE, while the video showed a Buddhist monk and claimed gunpowder was invented in the 9th century BCE.

[@jackmojo]

I think it would be half as interesting to know why, when we taste artificial flavors we know it to be the thing it's made to simulate despite them not really tasting the same at all. For example, eat a strawberry candy and we go "that's strawberry" when it really doesn't taste like a real strawberry at all. Is this just conditioning or is there something more to it?

[@jackmojo]

Nevermind - I see you've already covered this. WELL DONE!

[@dabeastry4389]

@@jackmojo which video?

[@WildBluntHickok]

Fun fact: artificial banana flavor was invented before the world switched to a different type of banana in the 50s (mind you the older type of banana is still in stores, it's just 4 times the price because not many places grow it).

[@r66fplaysgames]

Chillicothe, MO, where sliced bread was invented, is about 30mi North/Northwest of where I'm from.

[@Jack-fd8cx]

This is fine and all but when do we get the brick episode????

[@felix725]

You used the wrong picture, that's communist dictator Erich Honecker and not Otto Rowedder... at 00:16

[@Bigolhusk]

"One woman openly admit they cant slice bread" "These women now know their way around a knife" Who writes this script?

[@fsbayer]

0:16 I'm sorry to break it to you, but that's a photo of Erich Honecker, former dictator of East Germany. Not Otto Rohwedder, who looked absolutely nothing like him...

[@jan_pita]

so glad that "Adam" from Jet Lag decided to help with this channel 🙏🙏🙏

[@xdn22]

making fun of libertarians will always be completely morally justified common sam W

[@LD-Orbs]

Comes with the territory: "If you can't make fun of libertarians, what is liberty *for*, anyways?"

[@alhena11]

Classic Americans, loosing their minds because they have to slice bread by themselves. :P

[@Giraffinator]

When I googled "how is bread sliced at the factory," I didn't expect to fall face first into a rabbit hole

[@supremejustice22]

Stock footage of lady scanning a squash

[@johnopalko5223]

My first thought was, "Why would anyone pay for a VPN? Just set up an SSH tunnel to the server in your spare bedroom and use that as a gateway to the Internet." Then I remembered that not everyone is as terminally geeky as I.

[@Jrostily6400]

And it's most likely cheaper to pay for the subscription than to power a server 24/7 (assuming the server would only serve as a vpn replacement)

[@johnopalko5223]

@@Jrostily6400 That's probably true. My servers do run 24/7 but they're doing lots of other stuff.

[@RudieObias]

It's strange that America gets its bread from factories instead of bakeries. 🤷‍♂

[@theidioticbgilson1466]

probably because it's cheaper and less labour intensive considering total war

[@VitalVampyr]

A bakery is just a small bread factory.

[@dz7se]

Most bread today comes from factories actually, even in bread loving countries like Germany the majority of bakeries get a pile of frozen bread in the morning and then re-bake it. Hand-made bread is unaffordable for a lot of people

[@RudieObias]

@@VitalVampyr Bakery is local and made fresh on premises. Bread from a factory has to be shipped and therefore is not-so fresh and full of preservatives.

[@hmmm3210]

@@RudieObias not shipped. Driven from a few miles away.