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News Bites July 21, 2019

Can you guess the 10 oldest restaurant chains in America?

Travel back in time in America 60, 80, 100 years. You already know you would have to give up your laptop, your cell phone, and your Starbucks, but could you count on anything being the same? It turns out, yes. Believe it or not. Some of America’s biggest fast food mega-empires were built starting as early as 1919! Of course, they were much smaller scale, but some menu items even remain the same. So which of our fast food favs could we eat at on our trip to the past? Here are the 10 oldest fast food restaurants in the county: 10. McDonald’s Year founded: 1955 Cracking the top 10 list, is the most successful fast food chain of them all. McDonald’s got its start in 1955 when Ray Kroc saw the potential of a small California burger shop where the owners, Dick and Mac MacDonald, had developed some unique…

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Seasonal November 17, 2018

The first TV dinner was a Thanksgiving feast

While you may not think America’s most celebrated homemade holiday feast has anything to do with a modest frozen TV dinner, the two forever share a slice of history. The first mass produced TV dinner was, in fact, literally made from Thanksgiving leftovers. As the story goes, in 1952, someone in charge of purchasing at Omaha-based C.A. Swanson & Sons seriously overestimated how much turkey Americans would consume that Thanksgiving. With 520,000 pounds of frozen turkey to unload, a company salesman named Gerry Thomas had a light bulb idea. Thomas, having been inspired by the neatly packaged Pan Am Airlines airplane food, ordered 5,000 aluminum trays. He recruited women, armed with scoops and spatulas, to run his culinary assembly line, and work began making mini Thanksgiving feasts full of turkey, corn-bread dressing, peas, and sweet potatoes, thus creating the first-ever TV dinner. The original TV Dinners sold for 98 cents…

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Seasonal November 20, 2017

10 crazy candy cane flavors that add fun to your holiday

Whether you love them or hate them, candy canes are a tradition around the holidays: hang them on the tree, stir them in hot chocolate, crunch them over cookies. But peppermint is so last year. Improve upon this tradition with one of these new exciting tastes in town. Here are 10 usual candy can flavors you can start nibbling on now. Gravy They taste like they were just poured out of Grandma’s gravy boat. They might not make your breath smell minty-fresh, but you’ll probably enjoy them a lot more. Pickle Be careful before biting into these candy canes. If you’re expecting the green color to mean spearmint or apple, you’ll be in for a savory surprise. These pickle candy canes taste like the real dill. Rotisserie Chicken Some might say that meat and candy don’t mix, but you can be the judge of that. Bacon Not to be outdone by chicken, bacon candy canes…

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News Bites October 16, 2017

Food bank received antique Heinz soup can donation

Twitter via Cardiff Foodbank

We’re all guilty of it. When it’s time to donate to the food bank, we go to our shelves and pull off some items without giving the expiration date much thought. But one food bank was stunned after a mystery donor left a 47-year-old tin can of soup. It’s a record!! Never had a donation with 10d on before! Please could we remind everyone that food donated needs to be in date! Thank you 🙂 pic.twitter.com/EVf5qMulA6 — Cardiff Foodbank (@CardiffFoodbank) October 5, 2017 The workers at the Cardiff Foodbank posted a picture of antique can of Heinz kidney soup to Twitter. The photo showed a price tag with 10d stamped it. The can is thought to be about 46 or 47 years old, dating to at least before 1971 when Britain adopted a decimal system for their currency. Heinz hasn’t even made kidney soup in 35 years. It’s believed that the soup…

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