Sliced bread is famously one of history's best inventions, but how many slices do you get in a loaf, and why does it vary?

Sliced bread freezes beautifully, and is always at hand when you need it. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers. ... In 1928, this northwestern Missouri bakery was the first to sell sliced bread.

Mackay: Sliced bread may be the best thing, ... Even though his family and friends were sure it would be a big hit, it took Rohwedder 10 years to sell his first bread slicer.

Pre-sliced bread isn't all it's cracked up to be. ... The first commercially sliced loaves were produced in Missouri in 1928, ...