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Slicing bread

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Virgin spelt loaf ready to give the finger thing a fair go tomorrow morning. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Great!!! 😃  👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Brilliant - no blood or severed fingers. I would class that as a roaring success.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    I knew a woman who would turn the loaf on end, clasp it to her apronned  bosom with her left arm and saw away with her right arm while the family watched transfixed as the blade moved inexorably towards her chest 😨 

    Please don’t try this at home unless you have a stab-proof pinny!  😉 

    My granny and my mum!! And with large continental loaves I do it too. 😛 

    Luxembourg
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    If only these were available! 😁

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufWv3AjFGDw

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My wife can't cut bread into a sensible shape to save her life. She also refuses to listen when I tell her the bone handled bread knife I inherited from my gran can't go through the dishwasher, so now we have an increasingly blunt knife with a destroyed handle which doesn't help.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Pete.8 said:
    If only these were available! 😁

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufWv3AjFGDw
    My grandad used to be the manager of a small grocer's shop (Fine Fare - anyone remember those) and they had a machine similar to that which he used to slice ham and other cooked meats.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I hope it wasn't in the same state as the one above! 😁

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • @JennyJ Both my sisters worked Friday eve/all day Saturday in our local Fine Fare. Working it out that must have been in the mid '60s.
    Southampton 
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