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It is unlikely that in 1872, when Charles Pillsbury founded the baking products company that bears his name, he foresaw that someday his moniker would be largely associated with a small animated character with an annoying giggle.
Charles and his father, George, had joined with his uncle John Pillsbury to operate a milling plant in 1869, [...]
You may never have actually tasted it, but chances are you’ve heard of it, and chances are that you’ve also wondered, along with millions of children in the past century, “What is that Stuff?”
Ovaltine is a chocolaty drink made from malt extract. In the late nineteenth century, a Swiss scientist named Georg Wander invented a [...]
Some parents kick their kids out of the house. Frank Mars kicked his son out of the country.
In the beginning, there was Franklin Mars, who started a small candy company in Tacoma, Washington, in 1911. In 1923, Mars, by then in Minneapolis, Minnesota, invented the Milky Way candy bar, which became a national hit and [...]
Krispy Kreme doughnuts have been a long time tradition in the American conscience, and over the years has expanded world wide delivering the famous fluffy doughnuts to an ever expanding consumer.
The moral of this story is: ask now, or forever be puzzled.
Once upon a time (1933, to be precise), a man by the name [...]
Life Savers, that little candy with the hole in the middle, has long standing roots in American society.
Ever wonder how Life Savers candy is made? Don’t deny it, we all have. How do they get them all the same size? How do they put the little hole in the middle? And, of course, what happened [...]
Some people might call Harland Sanders a late bloomer, but by the time he put Kentucky Fried Chicken on America’s tables he had already had at least a dozen careers.
Born in 1890, Sanders learned to cook at age seven after his father died and his mother was forced to go to work. At age ten, [...]
On March 17, 1993, according to the Jell-0 Museum Web page, technicians at St. Jerome Hospital in Batavia, New York, apparently having nothing better to do, hooked an electroencephalograph up to a bowl of lime jell-0. They were amazed, the story goes, to discover that America’s favorite gelatin dessert exhibits brain waves “identical” to all [...]
When in doubt, sex it up. Chocolate in various forms had been a fixture of the European diet since it was first imported by Spain from Mexico in the sixteenth century. Consumed at first in liquid form, by the late seventeenth century chocolate was a popular flavoring for cakes and pastry, and soon Switzerland and [...]
The Cracker Jack candy treat has been around for a long time, and even in my own lifetime (some 50 years) not much has changed to this long standing product. Still the box has the familiar sailor boy saluting us with his trusty dog by his side. Can you remember the names of the [...]
It’s not surprising that Coca-Cola, probably the world’s most recognized product (and certainly its most popular soft drink) has spawned a wide variety of popular stories about its origin, its effects, and the ingredients used in Coke’s famous “secret formula:” Most of these tales, such as the ones about Coca Cola dissolving teeth, its supposed [...]