Designed to keep prices low and conserve wax paper, the ban, enacted on this day in 1943, only succeeded in making Americans furious
  • @jqubedEnglish
    5•18 hours ago

    The newspaper also contended that a loaf of sliced bread was known to outlast an unsliced one. (A sliced loaf could remain safe in its packaging, while unsliced bread needed to be opened completely for cutting, making it likely to grow stale sooner.)

    I wonder if that reasoning is actually correct?

    • @KellyEnglish
      3•13 hours ago

      unsliced bread needed to be opened completely for cutting,

      Depending on the packaging you can expose one end of the bread and cut what you need without exposing the rest. That’s usually what I do unless I’m expecting to serve the majority of what’s left right now.