Pre-Sliced Bread Was Once Banned in the United States
2nd June 2013
How? By government, of course! Government is the only entity with the power to ban anything!
In 1943, Claude R. Wickard, the head of the War Foods Administration as well as the Secretary of Agriculture, got the bright idea to ban pre-sliced bread in America, which he did on January 18, 1943. The specific reasons behind this aren’t entirely clear, though it was about conservation of resources. One known reason for the banning was to conserve wax paper. There have also been many who have suggested there were secondary goals of conserving wheat and steel.
But mostly it was just a bureaucrat with a wild hair up his ass and the power to impose his whim on an unsuspecting nation.
(Yeah, the name Eric Holder occurred to me, too, as I was writing that sentence.)