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The TV Dinner
Miscellaneous
Drink
Tequila
Coffee
Caffeine
Tea
Desserts/Sweets
Ice Cream
Fruit
Vegetables
Other Food Factoids
The TV Dinner
The invention of the TV dinner has been attributed to at
least three different sources, primarily Gerry Thomas, the Swanson Brothers, and Maxson Food Systems, Inc.
In 1945,
Maxson Food Systems, Inc. manufactured “Strato-Plates” – complete meals that were reheated on the plane
for military and civilian airplane passengers. The meals consisted of a basic three-part equation of meat, vegetable and potato,
each housed in its own separate compartment on a plastic plate.
In 1949, Albert and Meyer Bernstein organized
Frozen Dinners, Inc., which packaged frozen dinners on aluminum trays with three compartments. By 1950, the company had produced
over 400,000 frozen dinners.
In 1952, the Bernstein
brothers formed the Quaker State Food Corporation and expanded distribution to markets east of the Mississippi. By 1954, Quaker
State Foods had produced and sold over 2,500,000 frozen dinners.
Swanson’s frozen meals appeared in 1954.
Swanson was a well-known brand that consumers recognized, and Swanson launched a massive advertising campaign for their product.
They also coined the phrase TV Dinner, which helped to transform their frozen meals into a cultural icon.
Until recently, the most widely credited individual inventor of the TV dinner was
Gerry Thomas, a salesman for C.A. Swanson & Son in 1953. However, Betty Cronin, a bacteriologist who was working for the
Swanson brothers at that time, asserts that it was the Swanson brothers themselves, Gilbert and Clarke Swanson, who came up
with the concept of the TV dinner.
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MISCELLANEOUS
The term “junk food” was initially used in the 1960s but was popularized during the following decade when the
song “Junk Food Junkie” reached the top of the charts in 1976.
According to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, dandelions are more nutritious than broccoli or spinach, contain more cancer-fighting beta-carotene than carrots,
and are a rich source of calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, thiamine, riboflavin, lecithin, and dietary fiber!
In 1951, Jack in the Box opened its first restaurant in San Diego, California, pioneering the drive-thru concept and featuring
18-cent hamburgers.
Well-known home economist
Betty Crocker never existed. She was invented by a PR man in the 1920s. Betty Crocker was also never seen from the waist down.
Sara Lee was a real person. In 1935 Charles Lubin and his brother-in-law purchased a chain of small neighborhood
bakeries named Community Bake Shops. The business was a success, but Charles parted ways with his brother-in-law in 1949.
He named his first product (a cream cheese cake) after his eight year old daughter, and also changed the name of the company,
to Kitchens of Sara Lee.
The modern dinner plate is a fairly recent development. Until the 15th century, it was customary to eat on a thick
slice of stale bread, called a "trencher," that soaked up the juice.
Dinner guests in medieval England were expected
to bring their own knives to table -- hosts did not provide them. The fork did not appear until the sixteenth century, and
fork-and-knife pairs were not in general use in England until the seventeenth century.
Most Americans did not begin using forks until the Civil war. Until then most used their fingers to eat, knives to
cut their meat, and spoons with pencil-like handles to eat soups or stews. During colonial times forks were used in restaurants;
at home they were mainly used in the kitchen and to hold meat while cutting it. As recently as 1897, British sailors could
not use knives and forks to eat because it was considered unmanly.
Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.
Salt
If the world's oceans evaporated, enough salt would be crystallized to cover
Britain to a depth of 50 miles.
Being hygroscopic, salt spread on dusty floors in equestrian centers and indoor
arenas retains moisture and keeps down dust.
Until recently, salt bars were the standard currency of Ethiopia.
In ancient Greece, slaves were traded for salt, hence the expression "not worth his salt".
In his painting The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci put an over turned salt cellar in front of the ill-fated Judas.
In old Japanese theatres, salt was sprinkled on the stage before performances to prevent evil spirits from casting a spell
on the actors and ruining the play.
In Arab countries salt was used to seal a bargain, and also as a sign of friendship.
The Druids used salt in their rituals at Stonehenge. It is thought that this was as a symbol of the life-giving
fruits of the earth.
 DRINK
Soft Drinks On May 15, 1950,
Coca Cola became the first product ever to appear on the cover of Time Magazine. This issue
also featured an in-depth article about the Coca Cola Company.
First sold in
1885 at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas, Dr Pepper is the oldest soft drink in America. It was soon followed
by Coca-Cola (1886), Pepsi-Cola (1898),
IBC Root Beer (1919), 7-UP (1929), Sprite (1961), and countless other soft
drinks that have long since disappeared from the shelves.
IBC Root Beer was developed in 1919 by the Independent
Breweries Company in St. Louis as an alternative to alcoholic beverages during prohibition.
When C.L. Grigg first introduced 7-UP to the world
in 1929, he called it "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda." He soon changed the name to the much easier to pronounce
"7-UP."
Born in the hills of Tennessee in the 1940s, Mountain Dew was originally invented by two brothers,
Barney and Ally Hartman, for use as a mixer with whiskey. Mountain Dew is actually slang for "moonshine," and some
of the early bottles were even adorned with sketches of a character called Willy the Hillbilly.
When Caleb Bradham first
created his own carbonated soft drink to serve fountain customers at his drugstore, he called the concoction "Brad's
Drink." On August 28, 1898, Bradham renamed his invention "Pepsi-Cola."
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The Mai Tai cocktail was created in 1945 by Victor Bergeron, the genius of rum,
also known as Trader Vic. The drink got its name when he served it to two friends from Tahiti, who exclaimed "Maitai
roaae!" In Tahitian, the phrase means out of this world — the best!
Pigs,
dogs, and some other animals can taste water, but people cannot. Humans don't actually taste the water, they taste
the chemicals andimpurities in the water.
Most common sports drinks are the equivalent of sugar-sweetened human sweat. That
is, they have the same salt concentration as sweat (but are less salty than your blood). An increase of as little as 1 percent
in blood salt will cause you to become thirsty.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light;
hence, tinted bottles. Portuguese wine bottled in 1811 is called "comet wine." Its excellentquality
is believed to be due to the Great Comet of that year. The term "comet wine" is often used for any wine made in
the year of animportant comet.
Lithiated Lemon was the creation of Charles Griggs from Missouri, who introduced
the lemon-lime drink in 1929. Four years later he renamed it 7-Up. Sales increased significantly.
Joseph Priestley, the English chemist, invented carbonated water. It was a by-product
of his investigations into the chemistry of air.
Vernors ginger ale was created in Detroit and became the first soda pop made in
the United States. In 1862, pharmacist James Vernor was trying to create a new beverage when he was called away to serve our
country in the Civil War. When he returned four years later, the drink he had stored in an oak case had acquired a delicious
gingery flavor.
Japan is one of the most competitive soft drink
markets in the world. Approximately 1,000 new soft drinks are launched in Japan every year, of which only a small number survive.
There are more than 7,000 different soft drinks sold in the country.
Beer was not sold in bottles until 1850.
Before then, a person went to the local tavern with a bucket or a pot made specially for holding beer, had it filled, and
then carried it home.
The purpose of the indentation
at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle and to trap the sediments inthe wine.
TEQUILA
Tequila is distilled
from the juice of agave plants. (The agave plant is not a cactus.)
Tequila is strictly regulated by a branch of
the Mexican Government known as the CRT (Tequila Regulatory ouncil). Mexico considers tequila
its national property.
Agave plants are grown in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Guanajuato,
Michoacan, Nayarit and Tamaulipas.
It takes an agave plant approximately 8 years
to reach a maturity level that makes it suitable for harvesting and using in tequila production.
Mature harvested
agave plants can weigh between 80-175 pounds.
Tequila was first imported into the United States in 1873 when the
first load was transported to El Paso, Texas. In 1973, tequila sales in the US topped one
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 Coffee Avicenna, an Arabian philosopher, introduced coffee as a medicinal tonic around 1000 AD. He called it "bunc."
The drink didn't really catch on as a social beverage in Persia and Arabia until the 16th century.
Another
origin: The origin of coffee can be traced back
to East Africa. Legend has it that an Ethiopian shepherd noticed that his sheep stayed awake all night after grazing on coffee
cherries. When the shepherd ate them, they had the same effect on him
What was the deal with Frederick the Great, J.S.
Bach, and Coffee?
Frederick the Great of Prussia wanted
to make coffee off limits to his subjects because of the huge sums of money that was going to foreign exporters. "My
people must drink beer," Frederick demanded in a manifesto. Rumors flew furiously, including one that claimed coffee
made people sterile. Acclaimed musician Johann Sebastian Bach disagreed vehemently with Frederick and his anti-coffee crowd.
In retaliation, the composer wrote his "Coffee Cantata," published in 1732. Bach's composition told the story
of a father who threatens to break off his daughter's marriage plans unless she gives up her vile coffee drinking habit.
The girl agrees, but changes her mind when her mother and grandmother reveal that they have always been passionate, although
secretive, coffee drinkers (and obviously not infertile). Bach himself was the father of 20 children.
According to
the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases it may actually increase
the adverse effects of alcohol.
Caffeine Humans have consumed caffeine since the Stone Age. Early peoples found that chewing the seeds, bark, or leaves of
certain plants had the effects of easing fatigue, stimulating awareness, and elevating mood. Only much later was it found
that the effect of caffeine was increased by steeping such plants in hot water. Many cultures have legends that attribute
the discovery of such plants to people living many thousands of years ago.
A popular myth traces the early history of coffee
to Ethiopia, where Coffea arabica originates. According to the myth, a goatherder named Kaldi observed goats that became elated
and sleepless at night after browsing on coffee shrubs and, upon trying the berries himself, experienced the same vitality.
Caffeine is a drug that in large amounts, especially over an extended period of time, can lead to a condition termed
"caffeinism". This condition combines physical addiction with a wide range of unpleasant physical and mental conditions
including nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching, insomnia, heart palpitations and hyperreflexia.
An acute overdose of caffeine, usually in excess of 250 milligrams (more than 2-3 cups of brewed coffee), can result
in a state of central nervous system overstimulation called caffeine intoxication. Symptoms may include restlessness, nervousness,
excitement, insomnia, flushing of the face, increased urination, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, a rambling
flow of thought and speech, irregular or rapid heart beat, and psychomotor agitation. In cases of extreme overdose, death
can result. A lethal dose of caffeine is estimated to be about 150 to 200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass, roughly 140
to 180 cups of coffee over a short period. Though achieving this lethal dose with coffee alone would be exceptionally difficult,
there have been reported deaths from intentional overdosing on caffeine pills.
Withdrawal symptoms may appear within 12 to 24
hours after discontinuation of caffeine intake, peak at roughly 48 hours, and usually last from one to five days. Symptoms
include headache and/or nausea, feelings of fatigue and drowsiness, anxiety, irritability, inability to concentrate, and diminished
motivation to initiate or to complete daily tasks. Copyright © 2006 ArcaMax Publishing, Inc. and its
licensors.
Tea Who was the
first to brew tea? Tea was discovered in China more than 5,000 years ago. Tea is the most popular drink beverage in the world - next
to water. The tea that graces tables in virtually every country around the globe comes from the same plant: Camellia sinensis,
a member of the evergreen family. From the leaves of this one plant spring three basic types of tea: black, green, and oolong,
and more than 3,000 varieties.
How was iced tea invented? Although people have been drinking tea for thousands of years, it was not until the early twentieth century that
tea was served on ice. At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, tea-seller Richard Blechynden was disappointed with the
sales of the hot drink during the sweltering hot summer days, so he began serving it chilled with ice. The refreshing drink
sold well and now iced tea is a hot-weather favorite around the world. Another important tea innovation happened in 1908,
when a tea merchant began shipping tea to New York restaurants as individual-serving portions in small paper bags. The restaurants
began infusing the tea in cups of hot water without removing it from the bags, and the modern teabag was born.
DESSERTS / SWEETS Licorice can raise your blood pressure. Great supplies of licorice were
found in King Tut's tomb. Licorice, famed for its medicinal qualities as well as its taste, was a favorite of the
pharaoh.
The
twin Popsicle was created during the times of the Great Depression so that two children could share one treat.
In the early 1800s spruce sap became the first popular chewing gum.
Modern gum has its origins in chicle, the sap of the tropical sapodilla tree, first used in gum in the 1860s.
Schrafft's
candy in Boston urged families to send jelly beans
to their loved ones in the Union Army during the Civil War. The colorful candies would provide
quick energy and resist melting.
Wintergreen LifeSavers give off sparks when chewed in the dark
because of a chemical process called triboluminescence.
Robert O. Welch, the inventor of Sugar Daddy,
is also the founder of the John Birch Society.
The
dog on the Cracker Jack package is named Bingo.
The Three Musketeers candy bars
were originally made of three seperate nougat sections: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Eventually the strawberry and vanilla
nougat sections were eliminated, leaving only the chocolate.
M&Ms are named after
Frank Mars, the candy maker, and his business associate, Bruce Murrie. The little "m's" on "M&M's" Chocolate Candies weren't printed on the candies
until 1950. They were originally printed in black, not white. It wasn't until 1954 that the "m's" became
the color they are today.
German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German
developed a sweet baking bar for Baker's Chocolate Co. The product was named in honor of him -- Baker's German's
Sweet Chocolate. The candies
most likely to cause tooth decay are dark chocolate and fudge.
Chocolate
was introduced to Europe in the sixteenth century when the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes brought home the delectable
dessert after conquering the Aztecs. Chocolate was said to be the favorite drink of the Aztec emperor Montezuma II.
It is a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that
consumption of chocolate -- even frequent daily dietary intake -- had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists
no longer link acne with diet. It used to take 27 hours to make Marshmallow Peeps!
Before the process was mechanized in the 1950s, the Peeps were hand-squeezed out of a pastry tube, then allowed to dry before
being hand-painted.
The Pez dispenser was intended to resemble
a cigarette lighter. Invented in Austria in 1927, Pez was originally a candy
marketed at adults who were trying to stop smoking. The plastic heads were a later addition.
Ice Cream - Ice
cream was invented in China around 2000 B.C. when the Chinese packed a soft milk-and-rice mixture in snow. About 62 A.D.,
the Roman Emperor Nero sent slaves to the tops of the Apennines Mountains to bring fresh snow down to the royal kitchens,
where the snow was then flavored with fruits and honey. After more than a century as a dessert for royalty alone, ice
cream was made available to the general public for the first time at Cafe’rocope, the first cafe in Paris, in 1670. Origins of the Ice Cream Sunday - Historians disagree
over the originator of the ice cream sundae, but three historical probabilities are the most popular. Version One - Evanston, Illinois - In the midwestern parts
of United States, laws were once passed that prohibited the selling of soda water on a Sunday. The town of Evanston, Illinois
was one of the first towns to pass such a law around the year 1890. As an alternative on Sundays, local soda fountains started
selling ice cream sodas minus the soda, which left only the ice cream and syrup. That became the recipe of what was to become
know as the ice cream sundae. Version Two
- Two Rivers, Wisconsin - Soda fountain owner, Ed Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is reputed to have invented
the first ice cream sundae in 1881. Berners' customer George Hallauer requested that Berners serve him a dish of ice cream
topped with the syrup used for sodas. Berner liked the dish and added it to his regular menu, charging a nickel.
George Giffy, a competing soda fountain owner from
nearby Manitowoc, Wisconsin felt he had to serve the same syrupy concoction as Ed Berners. However, Giffy felt that the nickel
price was too cheap and decided to only serve the dish on Sundays, which soon became the name of the dish - the Ice Cream
Sunday. Once Giffy realized that he was making good money from the "Ice Cream Sunday" he changed the name to the
"Ice Cream Sundae" and served it daily.
Version Three - Ithaca, New York - The ice cream sundae
was invented by Chester Platt who owned the Platt & Colt's drugstore in 1893. Platt prepared a dish of vanilla ice
cream for the Reverend John Scott on a Sunday. Chester Platt spiced up the ice cream with cherry syrup and a candied cherry.
Reverend Scott named the dish after the day. An advertisement for "Cherry Sunday" served at the Platt & Colt's
drugstore has helped document this claim...."CHERRY SUNDAY - A new 10 cent Ice Cream Specialty. Served
only at Platt & Colt's. Famous day and night Soda fountain."
The Eskimo Pie was invented by an ice cream salesman (who might also have been a high school teacher)
in Iowa in 1919 or 1920. He originally called it the I-Scream-Bar. Supposedly inspired by a boy having to make a difficult
decision; the choice between ice cream and candy, and only having the price for one. This inspired the salesman to combine
the two, and create the Eskimo Pie. It was an immediate success, and 3 months after he introduced it, they were selling at
the rate of a million bars a day, and caused the price of cocoa beans to rise by 50%!
Chocolate Chip Cookies The Toll House Cookie, was accidentally developed by Ruth Graves Wakefield, owner of the Toll House Inn near Whitman,
Massachusetts, in 1937. Wakefield was making chocolate cookies but ran out of regular baker's chocolate and substituted
broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate, assuming it would melt and mix into the batter. It did not, and the cookie with chips
of chocolate was born. Chocolate chip cookies are made with sugar, flour, eggs, semi-sweet baker's chocolate and butter. While the Toll
House recipe is considered the standard, the ingredients can be adjusted to give the cookies slightly different properties:
- For a thin, crisp cookie, increase the baking soda by up to 50%, replace one of the eggs with milk, and raise the
ratio of brown sugar to white.
- For a soft, cakey cookie, use cake flour, substitute baking powder for baking soda,
and use shortening instead of butter.
- For a chewy cookie, use bread flour, omit one egg white, and melt the butter
before incorporating it into the mix.
- Sometimes a crunch is added by putting nuts in the cookies.
Its name derives
from the Dutch word koekje which means little cake, and arrived in the English language via the Scots language, rather than
directly from the Dutch. In Scottish English the word denotes a small scone-like cake or bun, often filled with cream. Cookies
were first made from little pieces of cake batter that were cooked separately in order to test oven temperature. The ancestor
of the cookie is said to have come from Persia (from the Persian kooluchih) in the 7th century according to many sources.
Oreo Cookies - Since its first
appearance in 1912, Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies have reigned supreme as being the number one selling cookie inAmerica.
The basic design of the cookie has not changed for more than 50 years. Today's version is a neat 1 3/4 inches across -
that's one, two or three bites, depending on how big your bite is!
FRUIT Most raw fruit and vegetables contain no fat.
Because of its hot, damp climate, Florida produces
thin-skinned juicy fruits; California's drier climate, by contrast, produces thick-skinned, sweet "eating" oranges.
Apples
contain a natural antiseptic (malic acid) that helps keep your breath fresh.
 Bananas were officially introduced to the American
public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Each banana was wrapped in foil and sold for 10 cents. Before that
time, bananas came to America on the decks of sailing ships as sailors took a few stems home after traveling in the Caribbean.
A cluster of bananas is called a hand and
consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
As bananas ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar.
Therefore, the riper the banana the sweeter it will taste.
Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without
a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms.
Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant. If left on the
plant, the fruit splits open and the pulp has a "cottony" texture and flavor.
Each banana plant
bears only one stem of fruit. To produce a new stem, only two shoots - known as the daughter and the granddaughter - are allowed
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Never put your bananas in the refrigerator!
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant,
sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for
a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome, or prevent, a substantial number of illnesses and conditions,
making it a must-add to your daily diet.
Depression: According to
a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana.
This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax,
improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS:
Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in
the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood
Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood
pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry
to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain
Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through
their exams by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown
that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in
the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make
a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted
blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural
antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking
on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness
Mosquito Bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream,
try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling
and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B
vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of
Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips.. Looking at 5,000
hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that,
to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every
two hours to keep levels steady..
Ulcers:
The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the
only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation
by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can
lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas
to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help
SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer trytophan.
Smoking & Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they
contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine
withdrawal.
Stress:
Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's
water balance.. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced
with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes:
According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of
death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart,
take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster
or surgical tape!
A banana
is a natural remedy for many ills. When compared to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate,
three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also
rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around.
Unknown author or copyright. Used without permission, but with the best of intentions.
Thanks to Gwenne for sending me these additional tidbits regarding bananas.
Black raspberries are indigenous to North America—the cross between
a blackberry and a raspberry dates back to 1893 in Geneva, New York.
Florida
oranges may be greener than California oranges because the night temperatures in Florida are warmer, which causes
more chlorophyll to migrate into the peel; they are still ripe and sweet though.
The
kiwi fruit was found to be the most nutritious fruit by a 1997 Rutgers University study, followed by the
papaya, the mango, and then the orange. A kiwi fruit has twice the vitamin C of an orange, is lower in sodium and higher in
potassium and vitamin E.
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
The
pineapple is a sign of hospitality.
Pumpkins
are fruit. An
average pumpkin weighs 10-20 pounds, though some varieties can weigh 600-800 pounds.
One of the first published
recipes for pumpkin pie was in Amelia Simmons’ 1796 cookbook, "American Cookery". This the first cookbook
to be written by an American and published in the United States.
Pumpkin halves were supposedly used as guides
for haircuts in colonial New Haven, Connecticut, giving rise to the nickname pumpkinhead.
Pumpkin
takes its name from the medieval French word 'pompom', meaning 'cooked by the sun.' (Ultimately, probably
from the Greek 'pepon.')
At one time, pumpkins were used as a home remedy to heal snake bites and to remove
freckles.
In Ireland, the original Jack O' Lanterns were made of hollowed-out
turnips, a plentiful fruit readily obtainable throughout the British Isles. However, upon
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The tomato is the world's
most popular fruit.
Massachusetts first cultivated its own watermelon in 1629. In
those days, nothing was wasted: The rind was pickled, the juice was drunk, the seeds were toasted for snacks, and the flesh
was eaten.
STRAWBERRIES
American Indians were cultivating
strawberries in 1643. They crushed the strawberries into a mortar, mixing them with meal to make a strawberry
bread.
Since it is shaped like a red heart,
the strawberry has been used as the symbol for Venus, the Goddess of love. Some believe that if you share a double strawberry
with someone of the opposite sex by breaking it in half, the two of you will fall in love.
The belief that a strawberry shaped birthmark is the sign of a witch led many to believe that Queen Anne Boleyn, the second
wife of HenryVIII, was a witch.
The strawberry is the first fruit to ripen in the spring. It is the only fruit to contain seeds on its outside.
The three major varieties of the strawberry are June bearing, Everbearing, and day neutral.
California and Florida are the two top producers of strawberries in the United States. California produces over
one billion berries annually.
The overall sweetness of the strawberry is related to the weather conditions while
growing.
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VEGETABLES Most raw fruit and vegetables contain no fat.
Broccoli
and cauliflower is a mass of tight flowers.
Raw
broccoli, cup for cup, has twice as much vitamin C as an orange and almost as much calcium as milk.
Green beans,
cabbage, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, lettuce, zucchini, onion, tomatoes are packed with vitamins and minerals but
contain more than 90% water!
Green, sweet bell pepper have 2 times as much vitamin C as oranges;
red and yellow bell peppers have 4 times as much.
It takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of celery than
the celery has in it initially.
Corn
Antarctica is the only continent where corn is not grown.
HOW MANY KERNELS ARE IN A BUSHEL
OF CORN? One bushel
of corn contains about 72,800 kernels and weighs 56 pounds. From one bushel of corn we can get sweetener for 325 cans of pop,
oil for two pounds of margerine, enough starch for a ton of paper, or 15 pounds of carbon dioxide "fizz" in soft
drinks.
HOW LONG IS THE SHELF LIFE FOR CORN? Incredibly
long! Archaeologists have been able to pop 1,000- year-old popcorn!
Lettuce Iceberg lettuce got its name in the early 1900s, when it was packed in ice for
its long journey to the East Coast by rail. By the time it arrived it was encased in a block of ice. It had previously
been called Crisphead lettuce.
Modern lettuce had its start as a Mediterranean weed. As early as 55 B.C., lettuce
was served on the tables of Persian kings and praised for its medicinal values. The name comes from Latin words referring
to its milky juice.
* Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family. * Darker Green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter green leaves. * Americans eat about 30 pounds of lettuce every year, about five times more than what we ate in the early 1900s. * In the U.S., lettuce is the second most popular fresh vege table. * Almost all lettuce is packed right in the field. * About 25% of all iceberg lettuce is made into fresh cut salads.
Which Caesar is the salad named for?
The Caesar salad is not named after Julius Caesar. It is named for its creator, Caesar Cardini, who first prepared
the salad in his Caesar's Palace Restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico.
Onions Why do onions make people cry?
It is not the strong odor of the onion that makes
us cry, but the gas that the onion releases when we cut this member of the lily family. The onion itself contains oil, which
contains sulphur, an irritant to both our noses and to our eyes. Cutting an onion releases a gas contained within the onion,
propanethiol S-oxide, which then couples with the enzymes in the onion to emit a passive sulphur compound. When this gas encounters
the water produced by the tear ducts in our eyelids, it produces sulphuric acid. In response to the caustic acid, our eyes
automatically blink, and produce tears which irrigate the eye, and which flush out the sulphuric acid.
How does one keep
from crying when cutting an onion?
There
are many methods recommended for cutting onions to avoid tears. Each method has its supporters. Try each of them, if one works
for you, use it. Methods: cut the root off last; refrigerate before cutting; peel them under cold water; have a fan behind
you or alongside to blow the vapors away; place a piece of bread on the knife tip to absorb the fumes; chew gum while peeling
and slicing onions.
Onions are usually eaten in such small amounts
that they make very little difference nutritionally, but the most nutritious ones are scallions, with four times the vitamin
C and 5,000 times the vitamin A as other onions. If you enjoy eating onions by the pound, one pound has about 175 calories. Potatoes Was there a time when people were afraid of potatoes? It certainly would seem
so. When potatoes first appeared in Europe in the 17th century, it was thought that they were disgusting and were blamed for
starting outbreaks of leprosy and syphilis. As late as 1720 in America, eating potatoes was believed to shorten a person's
life.
One has to eat 11 pounds of potatoes to put on 1 pound of weight - a potato
has no more calories than an apple. Radishes
Radishes pack a big punch of potassium and vitamin C, nutrients proven to calm jittery nerves! Plus, they're
rich in raphanin, a compound that naturally helps balance thyroid levels and ease anxiety.
Salad In 1926, when a Los Angeles restaurant owner with the all-American name of
Bob Cobb was looking for a way to use up leftovers, he threw together some avocado, celery, tomato, chives, watercress, hard-boiled
eggs, chicken, bacon, and Roquefort cheese, and named it after himself: Cobb salad.
Spinach Spinach is native to the area of
Iran, but didn't spread to other parts of the world until the beginning of the Christian era. In the old Popeye
cartoons, the scrappy little seaman always ate spinach to get out of trouble. One quick gulp from the can, and his muscles
bulged with enough Bluto-pounding power to beat back two Terminators. Unfortunately, the whole super-spinach-muscles
thing stems from an "ironic" error. In the 1890s, German scientists measuring the amount of iron in spinach mis-recorded
their results. They put the decimal point in the wrong place, beginning the myth that spinach has as much iron as meat. In
truth, it has 10 times less (and most of it comes in a form you can't readily digest). German scientists corrected the
error in the 1930s, but no one bothered to tell America until after World War II. With meat scarce during the war, people
ate 35 percent more spinach than before, thinking they had their iron covered. They didn't. Even so, spinach is still
one of the healthiest things you can eat. It's chock full of key vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A and C, folate,
magnesium, potassium, and more. It's also got a lot of protein for a plant, and it's full of new-age health wonders
like antioxidents and phytochemicals. It helps prevent birth defects and eye problems and might even fight cancer. It won't
make you stronger, but it will make you healthier--even if you do smoke a corn-cob pipe.
OTHER FOOD FACTOIDS Some foods "explode" in the microwave due to trapped steam. Eggs,butter, and margarine have internal water
that, when microwaved, turnsto steam and splatters the food all over the inside of the oven. It isimperative to cover these
foods well when microwaving. In
1889, Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented at St. Joseph, Missouri,was the first self-rising flour for pancakes and the first
ready-mixfood ever to be introduced commercially. According
to purist Italian chefs, ingredients that should never appear on an authentic Italian pizza include bell pepper, pepperoni,
or chicken.
Chop suey consists of small pieces of meat, chicken or shrimp stir-fried with celery, onions, bean sprouts, water
chestnuts, mushrooms and/or other vegetables, and served over rice, usually with soy sauce. Chop suey is not Chinese, and
the dish does not exist in China. It is a Chinese American dish which originated in the mid to late 19th century, either with
Chinese laborers working on the U.S. transcontinental railroad, Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, or Chinese ambassador
Li Hung Chang's cooks while he was visiting New York. Created to suit American tastes or simply utilizing available ingredients,
the name is based on a Chinese (Cantonese) term for 'odds and ends' or 'miscellany'.
Although Asia
and the Mediterranean are the original regions where mustard grew, most of the world's mustard today is cultivated in
Canada and the United States.
Why do beans make you so gassy?
The
single most gas-producing food for most everyone is -- no surprise -- baked beans. Simply put, the musical fruit is made up
entirely of simple carbohydrates, which are not absorbed in the intestines. Once inside the intestines, the sludge that was
once beans is broken down by bacteria and enzymes, and then ferments. In that process, the thick, gooey substance can produce
potent gases that have nowhere to go but down -- and out.
Why was soup so popular during Louis XI's reign?
In the French court of Louis XI, the fine ladies lived mainly
on soup because they believed that excessive chewing would cause them to develop premature facial wrinkles.
Did the Incans
really freeze-dry food?
Incan soldiers invented the
process of freeze-drying food. The process was primitive but effective - potatoes would be left outside to freeze overnight,
then thawed and stomped on to remove excess water.
Is dill used for anything besides pickles?
An essential oil obtained from the fruits and leaves of the dill plant, is used not only for pickles, but also in
chewing gums and candy. Dill seeds are very small and very light. It takes more than 10,000 dill seeds to make an ounce. One
tablespoon of dill seed contains more calcium than a cup of milk. If all the oceans were to evaporate, the
salt left behind would cover the entire planet with a layer of salt that was 50 meters (half a soccer field) thick.
Humans consume 90 million metric tons of animal protein from the Ocean every year.
Which
snack is most popular?
Potato chips are the Number 1 selling snack in the United States. Statistics show
that they accompany lunch 32 percent of the time and dinner 18 percent of the time.
Bread Pieces of bread were used to erase lead pencil before rubber came into use.
The word "toast," meaning a proposal
of health, originated in Rome, where an actual bit of spiced, burned bread was dropped into wine to improve the drink's
flavor, absorb its sediment, and thus make it more healthful.
French toast isn't French. It comes from a
Roman cookbook, dating back to 1000 or 2000 B.C., and titled "Apicius on Cooking."
Cheese
The root of the English
word cheese comes from the Latin caseus, which derives from the word casein, the milk protein that is the basis of cheese.
In Old English, caseus was ciese or cese, which became chese in Middle English, finally becoming
cheese in Modern English.
Cheese is believed to have been discovered in the Middle East or by nomadic Turkic tribes in Central Asia, where foodstuffs
were commonly stored in animal hides or organs for transport.
Egypt is home to
the earliest archeological evidence of cheesemaking, found in tomb murals that date back to 2000 BC. These cheeses were likely
to have been very sour and salty (lots of salt was needed to preserve the cheese in the hot, arid climate) and similar to
a cottage cheese or feta in texture. Cheeses made in Europe didn’t require as much salt because of cooler conditions,
thus paving the way for beneficial microbes and molds to form and give aged cheeses their robust flavors.
Ancient
Greeks and Romans were the first to turn cheese-making into a fine art. Larger Roman houses even had a special kitchen, called
a careale, just for making cheese. After developing new techniques for smoking and adding other flavors into cheeses,
the Romans spread this knowledge slowly through their empire.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, innovative monks
were responsible for inventing some of the classic arieties of cheese we know today. According to the British Cheese Board,
Britain has approximately 700 distinct local cheeses. The varying flavors, colors, and textures of cheese come from many factors,
including the type of milk used, the type of bacteria or acids used to separate the milk,
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CEREAL
In 1941, General Mills introduced Cheerioats as "The
breakfast food you've always wanted." Four years later, the name was changed to Cheerios.
Cap'n Crunch's
full name is Horatio Q. Crunch. The character was invented in 1963, before the cereal was created. Cap'n Crunch was made
in response to a survey of kids who said
they hated soggy cereal. Cap'n Crunch
is the No. 1 pre-sweetened kids cereal in the U.S.
Life cereal hit the market in 1961. The famous "Let Mikey
try it" commercial aired from 1972 through '84. It was the longest-running commercial in television history.
Quisp, the saucer-shaped corn cereal, was launched in 1965. It was reintroduced in 1999 to appeal to the baby boomers
who ate it as kids.
In 1937, Wheaties held a contest for most popular baseball announcer. Ronald Reagan won
the contest and a trip to California. While there, he was asked to do a screen test for Warner Bros.,
which kicked off his movie career.
Kellogg's Corn
Flakes were accidentally invented in 1894 by Will Keith Kellogg. A Seventh-day Adventist and a vegetarian,
Kellogg was looking for a way to improve the diets of vegetarian hospital patients. He dried softened wheat and it turned
into thin flakes.
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Chewing Gum Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple).
When did Americans first chew gum?
Chewing gum reached the United States in the late
1800s when Santa Ana was exiled to New York after the Mexican revolution, bringing chicle (gum) with him. Chicle is a gum
taken from the sapodilla tree, which grows in the Yucatan desert of Mexico.
Who made chewing gum popular?
One of the prime candidates is not somebody you would connect to chewing gum. You've
probably heard of him, but only if you "remember the Alamo." He was the commander of the Mexican troops who attacked
and killed the Texans defending this San Antonio mission in 1836: General Santa Anna. Santa Anna won that battle but his country
lost the war and the territory of Texas. The General ruled Mexico for a while and then, in exile, ended up in--of all places--Staten
Island, New York. He brought with him his habit of chewing chicle, the sap of a Mexican tree. An inventor he befriended, Thomas
Adams, was inspired by Santa Anna's habit to turn chicle into a commercial product. Adams later added flavor to it and
it became modern chewing gum, making one of America's most reviled villains also an unsung hero of its popular culture.
(Source: EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINS OF EVERYDAY THINGS by C. Panati)
Chocolate
A few chocolate facts: The average chocolate bar in the U.S. contains at least 8 pieces of an insect in
it. Harvesting of the cacao beans occurs in the tropical countries of South America with low sanitation levels. Cacao tree
beans are cut and piled in the farmer's field where they ferment for 6 days. During this process, children and adults
walk over the piles; insects, rodents, small animals and other living things that make their nests in the piles. Actually
the The U. S. Department of Health publishes a book entitled "The Food Defect Action Levels" in which they list
unavoidable defects in food (insect, rodents etc.) all allowed by FDA.
Ever wonder why you can't stop eating
those M&M's? It's true that the chocolate inside M&M's is specially engineered to keep consumers "grazing"
-- the unconscious act of grabbing for your second, third or fifteenth handful. Thousands of hours of research have gone into
the candy to make sure it promotes "maximum consumption." As many chocoholics probably suspect, chocolate
contains numerous mood altering chemicals. In the 1940s and 50s, Hershey extracted a stimulant called theobromine from its
cocoa beans and sold it to Coca Cola, which used it to pep up its soda.
The secretive Mars family (who make M&M's, Snickers, Starburst, Twix, and Milky Way bars), whose members
have rarely been photographed and zealously guard their privacy, has a fortune estimated at more than $12 billion, making
them one of the richest families in the world. At Mars, product quality is an obsession. Workers constantly taste each
product to ensure it is being properly made. Having to eat a Snickers each hour is one thing, but Mars is also the world's
largest pet food manufacturer. Every day, Mars workers taste Fido's chow to make sure it meets the company's standards.
Walking through a candy factory and sampling
goods fresh off the production line is not what you might expect. Some candies need to age, like a fine wine, to reach their
full potential. For example, a Three Musketeers bar has the consistency of a chewy taffy when it is first produced. Similarly,
a freshly made Starburst is impossible to chew, while a Skittle fresh from the production line could break your teeth.
Milton Hershey was an affable inventor who never
stopped developing new products. In his later years, however, his creations became eccentric, even bizarre. For example, Hershey
worked on onion and beet flavored sherbets (which he even, briefly, put on the menu in the Hershey Hotel). Hershey had made
more than $60 million by the turn of the century but he died penniless. Long before his death, he gave away everything he
owned to found a home for orphaned boys.
Reese's
Peanut Butter Cups are Hershey's biggest seller, but in the 1950s, the company tried a chocolate marshmallow cup that
showed real promise. Unfortunately, the product had to be discontinued, as the marshmallow filling had the unfortunate tendency
to explode when shipped over the high altitude of the Rocky Mountains.
Mars has an extensive intelligence unit,
using the most sophisticated technology to keep a step ahead of its rivals. The company has even recruited the CIA to help
it keep abreast of world developments. In 1981, the spy agency produced a special report on the Soviet chocolate market for
Mars, despite CIA policies which forbid the agency from responding to such requests.
Mars's M&M factory in Hackettstown, New Jersey, operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The plant produces
100 million M&M's every eight hours. That's 300 million M&M's a day, 100 billion M&M's a year.
Hershey and Mars were once partners. The
breakup of their partnership left bitter feelings within each company, which time has only deepened, leading to one of the
fiercest rivalries in business today.
Would chocolate mile go with a fine wine?
Depends on when you lived - Drinking chocolate mixed with milk, wine, or beer was
considered a must at fashionable social events in the seventeenth century.
Eggs Can't
remember if an egg is fresh or hard boiled?
Just spin the egg. If it wobbles, it's raw. If it spins easily,
it's hard boiled. A fresh egg will sink in water, a stale one will float.
Honey Is honey just bee vomit? Technically, it's regurgitation, which is the voluntary bringing up of nutrients,
whereas vomiting is involuntary. But the fact is, honey is made from nectar the worker bees "bring back up." Bees
collect nectar from flowers and store in in their "honey stomachs," separate from their true stomachs. While flying
back to the hive they secrete enzymes into it that begin converting it into honey. Once in the hive they regurgitate up the
nectar and either turn it over to other workers for further processing or else dump it directly into the honeycomb. The bees
then beat their wings to fan air through the hive to evaporate excess water from the honey. Finally, they cover the honeycomb
with wax. Not information you may want to bring up at a polite dinner party, but it could make honey more appealing to your
kids at your next meal. Not that you needed to do that...
Honey is nature's energy booster! It provides
a concentrated energy source that helps prevent fatigue and can boost athletic performance.
Haggis WHAT CONSTITUTES HAGGIS? Haggis, the national dish of Scotland: take the heart, liver, lungs,
and small intestine of a calf or sheep, boil them in the stomach of the animal, season with salt, pepper and onions, add suet
and oatmeal.
Herbs
Ginseng has been praised for its exceptional nutrition value. Modern
nutrition researchers also regard Ginseng as a valuable herb because of its naturally-proportioned wealth of vitamins, minerals,
enzymes, & co-enzymes.
Hot Dogs Were
hot dogs ever made of dogs? Answer: Nah. But when they
were first introduced, people wouldn't touch hot dogs for fear that they were made of dogs. (More in the next question.)
How'd
the hot dog get its strange name? The hot dog was originally
called "frankfurter" after Frankfurt, Germany, its birthplace. But from the beginning people called it "dachshund
sausage," because it looked like the long, thin dog. In the US, the German sausage was especially popular with New York
baseball fans, who bought the newfangled sandwich from vendors who sold them by yelling, "Get your dachshund sausages
while they're red hot."
Hot dogs are the most widely consumed form of sausage in
the USA.
Ted Dorgan, a leading cartoonist, thought these vendors were so comical, that he decided to lampoon
them. In his cartoon, they were shown selling REAL dachshund dogs in a roll, yelling "Get your hot dogs!" at each
other. The name stuck, and the rest is history.
Jam/Jelly The
most popular are grape jelly and strawberry jam. They are followed by grape jam, red raspberry jam, orange marmalade, apple
jelly, apricot jam, peach jam and blackberry jam, in that order. An additional 28 flavors are commonly produced that account
for less than 20 percent of total production.
Jelly is more popular among kids, while preserves are favored by
adults. In fact, the average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by high school graduation. Consumers
who regularly purchase jam, jelly and preserves usually buy two flavors to have at home. And at home, adults and children
eat the products with equal frequency.
In 1918, Welch's developed its first jam product called
"Grapelade." The initial quantity of Grapelade was purchased in its entirety by the U.S. Army. It was an immediate
hit in the military lower ranks, and became a demanded product by doughboys when they returned to civilian life.
Ketchup Where did ketchup
(or catsup) come from? Ketchup was originally a
Chinese medicine. The original ketchup, or ketsiap, was created
in the Orient. It was a tangy sauce of pickled fish, shellfish, and spices, which was used on fish. In the early 1700's,
English sailors discovered it in Malaya, and brought it back to England. But the unusual ingredients were hard to find, so
there were many variations, using flavors like walnut, anchovy, lemon, or even tomatoes. In 1792, a book called The New Art
of Cookery introduced a sauce called "tomato catsup," but it was hard to make. Then in 1876, Henry J. Heinz began
mass-producing the stuff, and the red sauce caught on in a big way.
Nuts Cashews Cashews have no shells. What's more, they're not nuts. The cashew is a seed, just
like sunflower and pumpkin seeds. They grow on shrubs and hang from cashew apples, which also taste pretty good. - Source:
IMPONDERABLES: THE SOLUTION TO THE MYSTERY OF EVERYDAY LIFE by David Feldman
Peanuts Peanut butter was first introduced to the general public at the 1904 World's Fair.
The peanut is NOT a nut!
It's a legume and a member of the pea family.
People
in the U.S. eat, on average, 7 pounds of peanuts and peanut products per person, per year. Peanut oil is used for underwater cooking in submarines. Undersea fleets like it because it does not smoke unless
heated above 450 degrees F.
Pizza How
does a pizza acquire the Naples seal?
In order to get the Naples Pizza Association seal of approval, pizza must
meet stringent requirements. Approved, authentic pizza must have a thin crust and be made of Italian flour. The sauce must
made from scratch with fresh, not dried, basil. The mozzarella must be snow-white, made in Italy, and worked by hand: A knife
can cause a metallic flavor in the cheese. Pizza can not exceed 12 inches in diameter. Traditional pizza is nothing like the
stuff devoured by millions of Americans nor by many Italians, either. In Australia, the Number 1 topping for pizza is eggs. In Chile, the favorite
topping is mussels and clams. In the United States, it'spepperoni. In India pickled ginger, minced mutton, and paneer
cheese are the favorite toppings for pizza slices. In Japan, Mayo Jaga (a combination of mayonnaise, potato and bacon), eel,
and squid are the favorites. Green peas rock Brazilian pizza shops and Russians love red herring pizza.
Considered a peasant's meal in Italy for centuries - modern pizza is attributed
to baker Raffaele Esposito of Naples. The first pizzeria in North America was opened in 1905 by Gennaro Lombardi at 53 1/3
Spring Street in New York City.
Okonomiyaki is
considered to be Japan's answer to pizza. It consistsof a potpourri of grilled vegetables, noodles, and meat or seafood,between
two pancake-like layers of fried batter. Popcorn
Popcorn was banned at most movie theaters in the
1920s because it was considered too noisy.
WHAT PUTS THE “POP” IN POPCORN? A drop of water in each kernel, surrounded by starch. When the corn is heated, the water
turns to steam. Pressure builds until it explodes and the starch inflates, inverting the kernel.
Turkey The rich
flavor of dark turkey meat is especially valued in soup and stew recipes. Dark meat holds up better than white meat in rich
marinades.
Yogurt Juan Metzger, a former Dannon Co. executive, is credited with putting fruit in yogurt. Metzger was recognized for
suggesting the addition of fruit at the bottom of containers of the dairy product to improve its taste. The first flavor was
strawberry. Metzger's father, Joe, co-founded Dannon Co. in the Bronx in 1942.
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