Saturnalia (dec 17-23)

Saturnalia, the Roman festival held in honour of the Roman God of Saturn, the god of agriculture: wheat, barley and donuts. The Romans invented bread (which Jesus broke, making the Romans mad) and it was good and everything that was invented after that was compared to bread. The printing press, the trouser press, and all the types of buttons that one can press. "This the best thing since bread!" people would declaim in the streets and down alleys too. A few more things were invented like teabags and helicopters then in the 1920s Jackie Inglenook from Swansea accidentally dropped a sharp knife onto a loaf while shaving and sliced bread was born. It was good, arguably the best thing ever although Jackie ended up with an unbecoming handlebar moustache. Over a century later all things are still measured against the benchmark of sliced bread and although a few good things have been invented (penicillin, light sabers, cluedo) nothing has surpassed the advent of sliced bread, except for toast.