What was the greatest thing BEFORE sliced bread?

Heh, heh, heh... nice try, but it pre-dated sliced bread! According to Wikipedia:

"The use of paper for hygiene has been recorded in China in the 6th century AD, with specifically manufactured toilet paper being mass-produced in the 14th century. Modern commercial toilet paper originated in the 19th century, with a patent for roll-based dispensers being made in 1883..."

Before that, they probably used day-old sliced bread :eek:

Uh, silly me. I thought the question was "What was the greatest thing BEFORE sliced bread?
 
Uh, silly me. I thought the question was "What was the greatest thing BEFORE sliced bread?

Aarrrgghhh... I sit corrected. That WAS in fact the question, and I subsequently shot down a couple of valid answers. Obviously senility is setting in....

We now return you to your regular programming without contributing further misleading drivel. :o

(Actually, I wasn't so much asking the question as posting an interesting article, but given the way I titled it, what I asked is what I got!)
 
I hated S&R catalogs. "John Wayne toilet paper" din't take "stuff" off of nobody. Besides the ink smeared things, and my Mom always tore out the pages with female models displaying items of interest to a young boy.:cool:
 
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bambiker,,,
Originally Posted by oldbrownhat View Post
Heh, heh, heh... nice try, but it pre-dated sliced bread! According to Wikipedia:

"The use of paper for hygiene has been recorded in China in the 6th century AD, with specifically manufactured toilet paper being mass-produced in the 14th century. Modern commercial toilet paper originated in the 19th century, with a patent for roll-based dispensers being made in 1883..."

Before that, they probably used day-old sliced bread
Uh, silly me. I thought the question was "What was the greatest thing BEFORE sliced bread?


Perforated Toilet Paper. ;)









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While I’m not sure about before but AFTER was peanut butter, extra chunky.
 
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