Was Sliced Bread Really Invented In Iowa?

You know the saying...”Best Thing Since Sliced Bread”? Turns out we have Iowa to thank for that!

There was a time when you couldn't just walk into a grocery store and grab a loaf of sliced Wonder Bread to slather with Peanut Butter and Jelly. 

So do you know who we have to thank for the bread slicing machine? 

If you wanted to go and really celebrate sliced bread you would need to head to Chillicothe, Missouri for “Sliced Bread Day”.

Chillicothe is a town of about 9,000 people located about 2 ½ hours straight south of Des Moines, Iowa.

The small town is the home of the the Chillicothe Baking Company which is the very first company to sell bread sliced by a machine.

But it's about 2 ½ hours northeast of Chillicothe where the first bread slicing machine was actually invented.

According to homeofslicedbread.com Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, invented the first single loaf bread-slicing machine.

A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire, and it took until 1928 for Rohwedder build a fully working bread slicing machine.