when I used my loaf
my invention of sliced bread
was toast of the town
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Author Notes
Author's Notes:
1. To 'use your loaf' is an English idiom, meaning to use your brain more in analysing what you are doing; to use common sense; to be more mindful.
Origins of the idiom:
Some say it is London Cockney-rhyming slang: loaf of bread = head.
Another hypothesis is that the phrase came from the Essex rifle men in the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15), when they'd use a loaf of bread with a hat on it, on the end of a raised bayonet, to flush out French snipers.
2. Sliced bread has been around for less than a century. The first automatically sliced commercial loaves were produced on July 6, 1928, in Chillicothe, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Rohwedder, an Iowa-born, Missouri-based jeweler.
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