Comments on: The Best Thing Since…. http://cafehayek.com/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: DAVE http://cafehayek.com/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html/comment-page-1#comment-52983 DAVE Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html#comment-52983 <p>Nice and all but it's still not the wheel......</p> Nice and all but it's still not the wheel……

]]> By: John S. http://cafehayek.com/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html/comment-page-1#comment-52984 John S. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html#comment-52984 <p>My old car pool partner (may he rest in peace) told me that during WWII, the government made bread producers stop pre-slicing their bread in a bid to save energy. He said that by that time, nobody knew how to slice bread anymore, or they no longer had the correct knives to do it, and so people wound up turning a lot of the loaf into crumbs.</p> <p>I've always wondered whether any part of that story was true, or whether it just was an urban legend he heard somewhere.</p> My old car pool partner (may he rest in peace) told me that during WWII, the government made bread producers stop pre-slicing their bread in a bid to save energy. He said that by that time, nobody knew how to slice bread anymore, or they no longer had the correct knives to do it, and so people wound up turning a lot of the loaf into crumbs.

I've always wondered whether any part of that story was true, or whether it just was an urban legend he heard somewhere.

]]> By: Sam Grove http://cafehayek.com/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html/comment-page-1#comment-52985 Sam Grove Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html#comment-52985 <p><i>Nice and all but it's still not the wheel......</i></p> <p>And what would be the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel?</p> Nice and all but it's still not the wheel……

And what would be the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel?

]]> By: Eric H http://cafehayek.com/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html/comment-page-1#comment-52986 Eric H Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html#comment-52986 <p>That Wikipedia link is pure gold for the mention made of "Area Supervisors of the Food Distribution Administration", the "Office of Price Administration" and the "Food Administrator." Knowing those things are gone filled me with optimism. Then I followed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Price_Administration" rel="nofollow">this link</a> to the entry for the Office of Price Administration, and my optimism faded. </p> That Wikipedia link is pure gold for the mention made of "Area Supervisors of the Food Distribution Administration", the "Office of Price Administration" and the "Food Administrator." Knowing those things are gone filled me with optimism. Then I followed this link to the entry for the Office of Price Administration, and my optimism faded.

]]> By: Matt http://cafehayek.com/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html/comment-page-1#comment-52987 Matt Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/07/the-best-thing-since.html#comment-52987 <p>Sliced bread is fine, but I rather prefer the creation of joint stock companies. Think Wonderbread and Bridgestone.</p> Sliced bread is fine, but I rather prefer the creation of joint stock companies. Think Wonderbread and Bridgestone.

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