A Toast

Who hasn't heard the semi-sarcastic compliment that something (or someone, I suppose) is 'the best thing since sliced bread'? 

I've yet to figure out what the best thing might have been before the advent of sliced bread but have learned (because you're never too old to learn something new even though the opposite isn't true) that there was a time, admittedly briefly, when we had sliced bread and then we didn't. What a crumby thing to do! (Ouch!).

Sort of like The Allman Brothers, but with a toaster.  
-bill kenny