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Events on Saturday 7 July 1928 1
1928Sliced bread first soldOtto Rohwedder's bread-slicing machine enters commercial useThe Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri began selling bread sliced by Otto Frederick Rohwedder's machine. Pre-sliced bread spread quickly across the United States. It gave rise to the phrase "the best thing since sliced bread".