the greatest invention
You know the saying “It’s the greatest invention since sliced bread!”. Have you ever really thought about it? No? Really? Never? Hmmm - would you think me weird if I have? Wait don’t answer that.
I actually have thought about that saying recently, quite often in fact. What the big deal with sliced bread? How did it become the bench mark for future inventions because really it’s just sliced bread?
Did you know that sliced bread came around in 1928? In that same year the world was introduced to the first home pregnancy test, antibiotics and bubble gum. How did sliced bread beat all of those? Clearly bubble gum was the best invention that year 
About 6 months ago, I started making my own bread. I got tired of looking at tall of the ingredients on a store bought loaf that I couldn’t pronounce and I also got tired of having to pay around $4 for a loaf with ingredients I could pronounce.
Making bread is not very difficult but it is very time consuming. This is why I love my bread machine. It takes just as long to knead, rise, knead, rise and then bake my bread but the machine does all the work for me. I just dump the ingredients in, turn it on and let it go. I don’t even have to be home while it works. I loves it very much!
What I don’t love so much is trying to slice the loaves of bread. I am not just making bread to serve with dinner but I am making bread for all the sandwiches my three kids make. People, we go through A LOT of bread and I have absolutely NO skills when it comes to slicing bread. Who knew slicing bread could prove to be so difficult? These kids have had to deal with the funkiest slices of bread that ever existed
So you see, I get why the greatest invention at one time was sliced bread. I really really get it and I cannot tell you how happy I was to finally have this little beauty arrive on my doorstep.
photo from Amazon
The kids were happy too. They cheered when I told them what it was. I’m telling you, those were some really funky slices of bread.
Ooh, that’s pretty! We’ve been making a lot of bread in our machine lately too. I love how that is not only beautiful, but it’s got slots for right handed AND left handed slicing!
You inspire me to bake, but then again I’m lazy. =)