I found this list in the local AAA magazine. Interesting selection. Not many of my favorites on the list. Most are an abomination. I left off such things as Crisco - gawd help anyone who treats this as a food.


1850 - Marshmallows
1853 - Potato Chips
1868 - Tabasco sauce (sorry Cholula)
1869 - Campbells Soup
1870 - Margarine
1876 - Heinz ketchup
1885 - Dr Pepper
1886 - Coca Cola
1890 - peanut butter
1893 - Cracker Jack
1896 - Tootsie Rolls
1897 - Jello
1900 - Chicklets gum
1902 - Nabisco animal crackers
1903 - canned tuna
1906 - Kellogs corn flakes
1912 - Oreos
1917 - Moon pies
1921 - Wonder bread
1922 - Girl Scout cookies
1923 - Popsicles
1927 - Kool-aid
1929 - Twizzlers
1934 - Hawaiian Punch
1937 - Krispy Kreme
1937 - Kraft Mac & Cheese
1937 - Spam
1941 - M&Ms
1949 - Whoppers
1953 - TV dinners
1955 - KFC
1958 - Rice-a-roni
1965 - SpaghettiOs
1968 - Big Mac
1970 - Hamburger Helper
1978 - Reeses Pieces
1981 - Stouffers Lean Cuisine
1998 - WOW potato chips
2006 - Hot Pockets Subs

Besides Tabasco, I don't really see any food on the list that I eat on a regular basis!

I suppose from my diet, the only ones I eat on a regular (once every two months or more) would be

I'm also going to add the following:

1950 - Chicken Crimpys because they are the worlds finest savoury biscuit!

I don't see Taco Bell anywhere on there...that and a good stinky cheese

Beer, about 4 or 5 thousand years ago.

kimchi stew around 700 AD

and

the spicy MOS cheeseburger a few years later

And yet the list doesn't acknowledge this extraordinary breakthrough:

1958 - Instant (Ramen) Noodles. Invented by Momofuku Ando after years experimenting in a small shed-like building. Emerged with "Chikin Ramen" and went on to found Nissin.

I remember when Chicken Nuggets were introduced in 1977. It was the time that Star Wars opened, and there were lines around the theater. Everybody would walk over to McD and get the great "new" food.

Now, the thought of those greasy pieces of over-processed chicken product makes me want to hurl.

Steak...timeless...

I'd say just over 40 million years ago, mid Eocene period, for anything resembling a recognisable steak.

Well, ribs were available during the mid-Flintstones era.

Very interesting. I've always loved eggs regardless sunnyside, steamed, boiled, fried, or scrambled. Though I am clueless to the very first year when humans started consuming eggs as part of a regular diet.

Hi,
WOW! Chips In 1998 Frito-Lay, Inc. released its new product line WOW! Chips. This new product line consists of WOW! Lays, WOW! Ruffles, WOW! Tostitos, and WOW! Doritos. WOW! chips are meant to be a healthy alternative to ordinary potato chips and other snacks. The outlook was great for this new product.

I tried to read this post, but I was sprinting to the bathroom after eating a bag of WOW! chips.

Chicken and eggs are two of my favorite, but I don't know which came first.