The US banned sliced bread at one point (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

In 1943, the US banned sliced bread as a WW2 rationing measure. It was reverted just a couple months later due to the outrage.

 

[Ahsoka]

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[lexus]

Give the people their damn bread

 

[StirFriedPanda]

I know a lot of american's that shouldn't be using knives so I kind of get the outrage. If I could go back in time I'd go back and buy stock in bandaid's for those few months.

 

[ChiaraStar169]

I wish I could ask my gramma if this was true, bc she was a young adult in 1943, but she's been dead now since 2012. She was a big storyteller, so I imagine she'd have a lot to say about it.

 

[dark_tranquility]

bread is a staple food
so that is strange

 

[uran]

Once you go sliced bread you will never be satisfyed with the uneven monstrous self cut bread

 

[Ahsoka]

bread is a staple food
so that is strange

Bread was okay, it was specifically sliced bread that wasn’t

 

[centen]

Once you go sliced bread you will never be satisfyed with the uneven monstrous self cut bread

And getting one of those at-home bread slicers is ridiculously kind of pricey!

 

[TrinityJade]

Not the bread!

 

[Moguri]

I'm not sure I understand this specific bann

 

[Ahsoka]

And getting one of those at-home bread slicers is ridiculously kind of pricey!

They probably would sell those either, part of the reason for the ban was to save steel and that would be a bit counterproductive

 

[Ahsoka]

I'm not sure I understand this specific bann

It was to ration things like steel and wax paper by not making the cutters and not using wax paper in the process

 

[centen]

They probably would sell those either, part of the reason for the ban was to save steel and that would be a bit counterproductive

You will pull your bread apart with fistfuls and you will like it!!

 

[Moguri]

It was to ration things like steel and wax paper by not making the cutters and not using wax paper in the process

wow.. sounds really dire