What was the best thing before sliced bread?
It is hard to decide what is considered the best thing by the largest number ratio of homo-sapiens. Indeed, it is nearly impossible as the vast number of populace on the planet. According to the highly sophisticated source at http://sunsite.unc.edu/lunarbin/worldpop the exact world population, as of January 4, 1998, 2:14:29 was exactly 5,863,650,069. One can only guess the most commonly used household object in that time period, 1700’s to 1759, when sliced bread became popular. The simplest hypothesis would be, then, that the “best” or preeminent apparatus would be a knife, for cutting the bread to make ones own sliced bread.
