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Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

More than fifty years before the food truck craze brought halal tacos, cold brewed lattes, and vegan banana splits to our city streets, this 1960 ad imagined a mobile bakery that would deliver Parker house rolls and biscuits to the cul de sacs of suburbia. Replete with ovens and refrigerators, the Bake-O-Mat promised an on-demand carbohydrate paradise.

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