Imponderable 17 July .. What was the best thing before sliced bread?

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

LWW wrote:

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

I have often wondered about that. Unsliced bread🤔? Would like to see some posts on this one.

MrBossHK Loc: The West Valley of Phoenix metro area

LWW wrote:

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

I heard it was "the cat's pajamas".

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Billbobboy42 wrote:

I have often wondered about that. Unsliced bread🤔? Would like to see some posts on this one.

My Dad grew up in the depression. His sandwiches were made from home made bread. Most of his school mates sandwiches were made from store bought bread. It made him feel out of place. When he grew up he realized that he was the one who had the better bread.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

LWW wrote:

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

For a lot of people it was just plain having any bread.

Or having a good sharp bread knife to slice your own.

But being from Kentucky I will nominate fresh country biscuits and fresh homemade cornbread - in fact I put them both up as being better than sliced bread.

rick_n_wv Loc: Charleston WV

robertjerl wrote:

For a lot of people it just plain having any bread.

Or having a good sharp bread knife to slice your own.

But being from Kentucky I will nominate fresh country biscuits and fresh homemade cornbread - in fact I put them both up as being better than sliced bread.

Oooohh, that is good eating. My mom had three recipes for cornbread. One a little dry meant for putting in soup or beans. One the was meant for eating with foods, moist and tasty. Then she had one she called sweet cornbread. She fixed it with some meals that were special and always made "extra". It never lasted long. It was as good as any cake you ever ate and didn't need icing. Just to throw in an extra, her cakes were something that people would come to visit for.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

rick_n_wv wrote:

Oooohh, that is good eating. My mom had three recipes for cornbread. One a little dry meant for putting in soup or beans. One the was meant for eating with foods, moist and tasty. Then she had one she called sweet cornbread. She fixed it with some meals that were special and always made "extra". It never lasted long. It was as good as any cake you ever ate and didn't need icing. Just to throw in an extra, her cakes were something that people would come to visit for.

My Grandmother made cornbread with fairly course ground meal so it had texture. She also made it in a large cast iron skillet with "Bacon Drippings" and some coarse ground meal sprinkled in before she poured in the batter and left it in the oven a bit longer so it browned. Then sliced it like a pie. This pale, square, cake like stuff without the texture and the large grains on the outside isn't really cornbread to me. But it is sure better than no corn bread.

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

Cherokee cornbread is the best IMHO.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

LWW wrote:

Cherokee cornbread is the best IMHO.

Looked it up, sounds good.

I forgot to say that my Grandmother always popped the hot cornbread out of the skillet onto a platter so the dark brown side was up before she sliced it.

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

robertjerl wrote:

Looked it up, sounds good.

I forgot to say that my Grandmother always popped the hot cornbread out of the skillet onto a platter so the dark brown side was up before she sliced it.

Tuya gadu might also be to your liking.

leftyD500 Loc: Ocala, Florida

LWW wrote:

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

A slice bread slicer.

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

LWW wrote:

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

Sliced "Furbies" my fav!! 1800's

Swede

buckbrush Loc: Texas then Southwest Oregon

I forgot to say that my Grandmother always popped the hot cornbread out of the skillet onto a platter so the dark brown side was up before she sliced it.[/quote]

Robert; My wife is from Pound, Virginia in Southeastern Virginia. Quite close to Kentucky. She makes cornbread exactly as you describe. She has to buy her corn meal from back east as none of the meal we get here in Oregon is acceptable as its too sweet and nothing like she grew up with. We eat it with either snap beans or soup beans.

Never had good cornbread until I married her!!

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

Mmmmmmmm ... cornbread and soup beans!

SonyBug

SteveR wrote:

My Dad grew up in the depression. His sandwiches were made from home made bread. Most of his school mates sandwiches were made from store bought bread. It made him feel out of place. When he grew up he realized that he was the one who had the better bread.

I make my own bread all the time. BTW, sliced bread was only invented in the early '30s. It really meant something to be better than sliced bread. I can slice a perfect piece, but my wife, not so much.