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Sandwiches: A Hillel By Any Other Name

Forever Ago

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Sandwiches Meet Peanut Butter and Mayonnaise

Until 19 28, people still had to cut every slice themselves. Sliced bread spread across the country but then in 19 forty one, america entered world war too. Two years later, sliced bread disappeared from the shelves. The government band selling it. Oh, sandwich doom. It was all for the war effort. Lots of things were being rationed, gasoline, butter, sugar, coffee, bicycles. And the thick wax paper that kept the sliced bread fresh. This ban on sliced bread lasted less than two months. Afterward, i make my own toast, 22 slices of bread to be cut in a hurry. Are you kidding me? So people were upset, rightfully or not

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