The wheel, the steam engine, the lightbulb, the aeroplane.
Marvels of engineering to be sure, but all were put to shame when Otto Frederick Rohwedder (blessed be his name) invented the first single loaf bread-slicing machine.
No longer would man suffer the long indignity of having to slice their own bread!
It proved instantly influential and in a few short years 80% of the bread sold in the United States was sliced!
Unfortunately, like all true visionary undertakings, the forces of reactions would soon emerge in a vain attempt to halt man's progress and in XV Annus Panis Nostri Quod Est Divisa a ban would be placed on the product.
U.S. officials cited "war time conservation measured" but the brave people of the land quickly rose up in outcry and the ban was rescinded.
Today people from all around the world are free and able to enjoy the bounty of bread that is already sliced.
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Yeah man, I vividly remember having bad dreams about cleaning up all the dough.
It’s like (what I imagine from) a slaughterhouse in that, in the “wet” parts of the factory, all the floors and stuff need to be hoseable a few times a week; brick floors and grates. Once more flour got involved it wasn’t so bad, but hours-old dough that fell behind a machine was still incredibly yeasty and foul
But mostly I worked in the sweets department: jelly rolls, cinnamon rolls, weird delicious corn disks, etc
Smoked a ton of cigs working shifts with start times around the clock. Still glad I had it as a job for a while, definitely a formative experience
I worked 3 years in a wonder bread factory in nearly every job, including sanitation. No sweets at this place, just rotting bread. And basically no automated machinery. Fuckin sucked.
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