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What happened in your state before it happened anywhere else?
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What happened in your state before it happened anywhere else?
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The first packet of sliced bread was sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, on July 7, 1928. The machine for slicing it was invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder.
Sliced bread freezes beautifully, and is always at hand when you need it.
Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, created the invention by which all others are judged — sliced bread — in 1928. His innovation quickly changed consumer culture.