So, the question is "what was the best thing before sliced bread"?...

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The answer has nothing to do with sliced, but everything to do with bred!

[Permanut]

1. I'm thinking canned peaches.

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3. We both love canned peaches on Tillamook vanilla bean ice cream...

We put Hershey's caramel topping on it. If you haven't tried it, please do.

Tillamook is the second highest rated ice cream, just behind Haagen Daz, and I like it better, but I'll eat either.

[Permanut]

5. Now you're talking!

Oregon native here, big Tillamook fan. Haven't tried the combination you describe, but it sounds insanely good.

[PXR-5]

2. A scharaded knife...

(Aka bread knife)

[3catwoman3]

6. Serrated, perchance?

[Brother Buzz]

4. Fork-split English muffin?

The big decision is marmalade, strawberry jam, or just slathered in butter.

[Intractable]

7. Fire?

[surrealAmerican]

8. the wheel

?

[some_of_us_are_sane]

9. Unsliced bread

[Rincewind]

10. Betty White

She was born 2 years before sliced bread was sold commercially, so sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White.

[justaprogressive]

11. Shoelaces!

That is all.