When the internet learned of “bread-sliced” bagels — supposedly a “St. Louis secret” — the reaction was swift, definitive, and overwhelming: NO THANKS. Bagels, when sliced horizontally ...

This week's hot topic: What is the proper way to slice a bagel? On Monday, Twitter user Alek Krautmann tweeted a photo of two boxes of bagels, sliced into thin vertical slices like a loaf of bread ...

By the 1950s, 20 years after the bread slicing machine came to the UK, more than 80% of bread sold was pre-sliced – and other ...

Chillicothe, Missouri, has an unusual claim to fame: It’s the town where pre-sliced bread first debuted back in 1928. The state has even declared July 7, Sliced Bread Day, as an official holiday.