Vegetable slicer with thickness adjustment

In a vegetable slicer for cutting vegetables, fruit and the like into portions, such as slices, said slicer having an integral horizontally disposed portion with an opening transversely thereof, a section of said integrally horizontally disposed portion being formed in freely extending relation with respect to an adjacent section of said horizontal portion and defining one side of said opening, another section of said horizontal portion defining the other side of said opening, means on said slicer for positioning a knife longitudinally of said transverse opening and adjacent said freely extending section, cams on said freely extending section and a cam bar movably positioned on said vegetable slicer for engagement with said cams for moving said freely extending section vertically so that a vegetable being moved longitudinally of the device and across said opening may be selectively presented to a knife in said opening so as to control the thickness of slices removed from said vegetable.