1. Mankind has been eating a baked combination of flour and water since at least 10,000BC.
2. In the UK, men eat about 4 ounces (113 grams) of bread a day, and for women it’s 2.7oz (76 grams).
3. The first bread-maker was invented by freed Roman slave Marcus Virgilius Euryasaces in the first century. Powered by a donkey or horse walking in circles, it kneaded dough in a basin.
4. “Avoid those who don’t like bread and children,”(Swiss Proverb).
5. Artophagous means ‘bread-eating’. Artolatry is bread-worship.
6. Pan de Campo (also called ‘Cowboy Bread’) was designated the Official Bread of Texas in 2005.
7. In the UK, 32 per cent of bread is thrown away.
8. Nearly 12 million loaves of bread are sold every day in the UK, 76 per cent of which are white.
9. Otto Rohwedder is credited with inventing sliced bread in 1928. His real innovation was the oiled paper it was wrapped in to kept it fresh.
10. When first sold, sliced bread was advertised as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”. This led to the popular phrase “the best thing since sliced bread".
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