samantha90 Loc: Fort Worth,Texas

Peanut butter?

St.Mary's

LWW-----It t'was, it t'was, "The bee's knees."

JKlein

Then, there’s this... https://youtu.be/vnLBmYCHjZI

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

Flush toilets? No wait; that's after sliced bread.

usken65

Toilet paper.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Betty White, older than sliced bread! VBG

Davoallen

Maybe pockets on a shirt?

Papa Joe Loc: Midwest U.S.

Sharp Knives...? :o)

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

Homemade bread! I've gone back to making it since I have to spend so much time at home these days.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

IIRC, in many "city" places many bakeries had "adulterated" their bread.
It wasn't uncommon to find small bits of sawdust, brick dust, etc.
Having presliced bread, and then white bread, alllowed consumers to pick and choose.

I used to have a (gifted) DAK breadmaker. My wife complained that I even "hacked" bread!
Finely chopped bacon, some fresh parsley and oregano, brown sugar and butter in wholemeal flour.
She loved eating it- didn't want to watch me make it.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

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!![/quote]

My Grandfather took dried corn from the crib* into town where there was a guy who had a commercial grinder and one "corn sheller" and a sack sewing machine. He ground the grain as coarse or fine as you wanted then sacked it. His wife made the sacks in different sizes up to huge double layer ones that held nearly 100lbs of shelled corn- they kept a large supply of different patterns of cotton cloth which the farm wives then used to make curtains, table cloths, aprons and even house dresses. So part of the ritual of taking corn in to grind was "What pattern do you want?" Just a 100 yards down the road in what had been the old one room school house for the area lived a man who was a master carpenter. He did everything from add on a room to make some simple furniture. He remodeled the farm kitchen in the early 50's and there was a big hinged tip out bin under the counter with two sections- one held 50lbs of corn meal and one held 50lbs of flour. Next to it was a bin that held about 30 lbs of dried Great Northern beans.

*A well ventilated 20'x20'x10' structure elevated 3' off the ground and sheet metal covered on the bottom to keep out mice and rats that my grandfather filled with ripe corn every fall at harvest time. The ventilation allowed the corn to dry without rotting. The corn was then used for corn meal and animal food.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Either "Great Northern" or "Navy" beans were a year round staple on the farm with cornbread or biscuits and potatoes. Home made hams, pork shoulder, bacon, sausage and pork roast or chops cured and/or smoked right on the farm, chicken that was running around just a few hours ago. My Grandparents didn't bother with beef, a steer taken to the butcher every so often and you picked up fresh cuts of beef until your "credit" ran out then took him another steer. A two acre garden with several kinds of beans, peas, squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes etc so from late spring to fall when they were ripe meals often had 2-4 different kinds of fresh vegetables and corn. Add in all the nuts and berries available either grown by some people (my Great Grandfather had over two acres of strawberries) or gathered in the "wood lots" every farm had and then canned in jars, frozen, dried etc and you had that kind of food all year. Then there was the one acre orchard with different kinds of apples, pears and cherry trees. Fruit got canned or frozen also.
Just about everyone in the family also liked to fish and large lakes with great fishing were only a few miles away so fish got cleaned and frozen also. And one farmer on the other side of town turned his farm into a series of breeder ponds and raised the best catfish you could imagine. He had an aerated tanker truck and took live fish everywhere from St Louis to New Orleans. And he had a small fish market in front of his house manned by family members - drive up and get everything from fresh fillets to a whole fish that might even have still been swimming when you drove up.
Don't forget the ducks and geese frozen when the family members who hunted did well.

Oh, this was in Ballard County Kentucky right at the joining of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

LinHSNW

Betty White

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

No, modern flush toilets were invented by the man who was Queen Victoria's palace plumber in the mid 1800's. His name was John Crapper and she made him a knight for the invention. So make a quick guess where the terms "john", "take a crap" and "crapper" came from.

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

Bread dough.