"Adrian" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 May 2016 10:10:36 +0100, tim... wrote:

But market forces having settled on a rectangular (not square) slice
size/shape that seems to have been constants for much of my lifetime,

Really?

None of the bread we have is "rectangular".

I was ignoring the curve at the top

The point I was making is that it isn't square, but has one dimension longer
then the other

and IME

the long dimension won't fit in the toaster whichever way you try

tim