![]() | The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (March 2016) |
![]() A loaf of brown bread sliced to uniform thickness by a bread slicing machine | |
Type | Bread |
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Main ingredients | bread |
Variations | slice, roll |
250per slice kcal | |
Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".[1][2] By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom "greatest thing since sliced bread".[3]