Does anyone agree with me that the greatest invention in human history...

[BAYLOR]

The second most important invention of all time. without it, there would be no fast food as we know it . John Montagu the Earl of Sandwich inventor of the Sandwich.

What is the The most important invention of all time ? Duct tape of course.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

What is the The most important invention of all time ? Duct tape of course

Silence is golden; duct tape is silver.

 

[Glen]

Black Bush.
Springs will probably get this.

 

[JunkMonkey]

The second most important invention of all time. without it, there would be no fast food as we know it . John Montagu the Earl of Sandwich inventor of the Sandwich.

John Montagu the Earl of Sandwich did not invent the sandwich. In the entire history of the human race it is inconceivable that no one thought of using two bits of bread to hold something in between them that was a bit messier (but tasty). He just got the credit for it. Bloody aristocrats.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Wellington Boot
Cardigan
Macintosh

Bah!

 

[JunkMonkey]

Let's storm the Bastille!

 

[Remedy]

My dad would say the toothpick - but that probably just speaks volumes about his diet.

I would say that one in the top 10 has to be the telescope (or lens as someone put earlier)

Best food invention? Pasta - so many shapes and combinations

 

[althea]

Let's storm the Bastille!

I'll stand right behind you!

 

[BAYLOR]

John Montagu the Earl of Sandwich did not invent the sandwich. In the entire history of the human race it is inconceivable that no one thought of using two bits of bread to hold something in between them that was a bit messier (but tasty). He just got the credit for it. Bloody aristocrats.

I think read somewhere that his descendants have a sandwich making business.

 

[althea]

I heard that the Earl of sandwich was a fanatical gambler and didn't want to leave the tables to eat a meal.
So he had someone put some meat and bread on a plate and ate them together(as a sandwich) at the card tables.
Maybe it was his idea.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I heard that the Earl of sandwich was a fanatical gambler and didn't want to leave the tables to eat a meal.
So he had someone put some meat and bread on a plate and ate them together(as a sandwich) at the card tables.
Maybe it was his idea.

Yeah. That's the story. But it beggars the imagination that no one in the history of everything though of doing this before the 18th Century:

Farm laborers in rural France had been eating meat between sliced bread long before it had a name, though the sandwich likely started even earlier than that. The earliest recognizable form of a sandwich may be the Korech or “Hillel sandwich” that is eaten during Jewish Passover. Hillel the Elder, a Jewish leader and rabbi who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod (circa 110 BC), first suggested eating bitter herbs inside unleavened matzo bread. The herbs symbolized the bitterness of slavery, and the bread resembled the flatbreads made in haste by the ancient Israelites as they fled Egypt. Hillel’s simple recommendation of sandwiching the two foods together may indicate that this was already a popular way of serving food in the Middle East.

What the Earl of Sandwich did was be the first person to eat such a plebeian food in a literate polite society (he was slumming it) and get his name attached to it.

 

[althea]

That's much more likely.

 

[Faisal Shamas]

A Condom, to keep populations down. We are yet to realize how important it could be

 

[JunkMonkey]

A Condom, to keep populations down. We are yet to realize how important it could be

The female contraceptive pill was much more important.