Bread

Here are an interesting bunch of bread facts.

• Sliced bread was invented in 1928 and was referred to as the best thing since bagged bread.

• In WWII, rationing laws prohibited the sale of freshly-baked bread because “the tastiness of just-baked bread is likely to encourage people to eat it immoderately”. The bread had to be at least 24 hours old before it was sold.

• Feeding bread to ducks actually causes many health problems for them.

• In France, by law a bakery has to make all the bread it sells from scratch in order to have the right to be called a bakery

• Nearly all the bread clips, those flat, U-shaped pieces of plastic are produced by one family-owned company in Yakima, Washington.

• Germany has the most diverse selection and production of bread in the world with 200 types of bread.

• When the buttered bread is right side up and dropped from a table, there’s an ~80% it will fall butter side down. This is because an average slice of buttered bread falling will complete a full turn in approx. 8 feet.