Does anything beat sliced-bread?

[Coco]

When something one considers to be great happens or is invented or created or born or accomplished, one often says it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, whenever the next best thing comes along after that, we say the same thing. Sliced bread is our frame of reference for everything great and has been since 1928. My question is with 82 years of being the best under its belt (Why sliced bread has a belt is another story), can sliced-bread ever be topped? What will do it? Does HBK vs. Taker at WrestleMania 26 stand a chance? Are we underrating Sam's memoirs?

Discuss, as thread starters often say.

 

[Undertaker the 5th]

I had never heard that before.

 

[Platypus Palsy]

Brian Kendrick.

 

[MizisAwesome]

sliced toast

 

[The Doctor]

Toilet

 

[Coco]

Things that already exist or have already happened aren't eligible. If you need an explanation as to why that is, I refuse to give you one as I won't be able to do it without talking down to you.

 

[Барбоса]

El GeneriCoco

 

[Miko]

Canned Bread?

 

[Steamboat Ricky]

Many things...because bread makes you fat.

 

[Барбоса]

Diet Water

 

[Coco]

Open-air surgery observation rooms are an obvious one, so I'll just say it myself.

Open-air surgery observation rooms.

 

[Lee]

Little known fact over 90% of all prisoners int eh western world have tried bread at least once in their lives.

 

[Undertaker the 5th]

Real Madrid

 

[Coco]

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[Undertaker the 5th]

It's a soccer team.

 

[Coco]

No, it's actually the wrong thread.

 

[Undertaker the 5th]

Oh, ok.

 

[Viola Moonlight]

Sliced Bread #2?

 

[ColdPlay3r]

bottled water, in a can.

 

[Scotty]

Air in a can. Mel Brooks thinks so...

 

[Triple K]

Me...in a can.

 

[Slyfox's Bitch]

meh i think sliced bread is a cool guy, eh kills hunger and doesn't afraid of anything

 

[gd]

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
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[Via Armbar]

When something is first introduced or invented, it's judged that very instant whether or not it beats sliced bread. It's not like it can be the greatest thing since sliced bread later in life, either it's got it or it doesn't have it. There are many great things in life, but if none of them are greater than sliced bread at this point in time, I can't fathom anything that ever could be.

Interesting side note, sliced bread dethroned wrapped bread as the greatest.

 

[Remix]

Imma go with Penicillin, Vaccination, Mapping the human genome and Modern Sanitation as being > Sliced bread.

if they have to be new things, I'll get back to you when the next blockbuster drug hits the shelves after being tested on rats, beagles, healthy males, and unhealthy people in every area it is going to be released in. pharmacological companies do come up with clever shit. they manaced to replicate the effect of injecting morphene into your brain with two acetyl groups. now THAT's impressive.