Did you know ...
That Henry Ford's favorite invention (of those he created) wasn't the process of manufacturing automobiles by assembly line, but the bread bowl? It's true!
We've talked about soup before, and we've talked about cans, and Ford was a "huge, huge fan" of both. He became obsessed with creating a vessel for food that was also food itself.
His first attempt was to make a soup bowl out of dried soup, but the bowl immediately dissolved (seems sort of crazy that such an astute thinker thought the bowl would resist its own solvent). Unfortunately for his house servants, Ford then overcorrected in the direction of non- or quasi-edible bowl materials. I say "for his servants" because after Ford's children developed kidney problems (his second version was made from salt), he insisted that the house staff test out his inventions. Ford had his maids and butler eating bowls made of compressed talc, woven grass, carved wax, balsa wood, etc. It's no wonder that they were so thrilled when he finally arrived at the bread bowl. What's a greater coincidence, I suppose, is that the invention turned out to be appealing even to humans who hadn't previously been forced to eat discarded construction materials.
The man was an innovator!
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