"The Worst Thing Since Sliced Bread"

The only time we buy already-sliced bread is when we're planning to put it in the freezer for use in emergencies (i.e., when we've run out of fresh bread).

Or when we make a mistake, as I did the other day at the Broadway Market, which didn't actually have a lot of what I considered suitable bread available anyway; but I was careless and bought what I thought was an unsliced loaf.

But it wasn't -- although it wasn't exactly a sliced loaf either. The slicing machine hadn't quite made it all the way through, so the slices were firmly attached at the bottom, and some were also loosely attached at the top. This meant that the only hand-slicing we had to do was the hardest part -- the bottom crust, while the loaf as a whole lacked the cohesion of unsliced bread.

The subject line of this post is jwg's comment on the situation, but only because he actually spoke it aloud before I did.