21 May 2020 - sliced bread

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How Crackpots Think

Pre-sliced bread does not exist. Consider: If they sliced it before baking, the slices would stick together. If they sliced it after, we could tell by the cut marks. The only possibility is that each slice is independently baked, and they are artfully shaped to fit together perfectly. It would be too expensive to do manually, so robots must do it—an unmistakable portent of the coming robot apocalypse! How many EMP bombs have you built?

clue:

One chapter of the book explains how the crust is made to run around the outer edge of each slice.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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