Cleopatra ate
pickles because
she believed they
were one of the
things that helped
her stay beautiful
Emperor Claudius
called upon his
Senate to vote on
whether any dish
could
surpass
corned beef and
cabbage.
The
Senate voted a
resounding nay.
The Bavarian
concessionaire,
Anton Feuchtwange,
loaned gloves for his
customers to hold his
sausages at the 1904
Louisiana Purchase
Exposition.
When many were not returned, he
asked his brother, who was a baker, to
invent a solution. Thus, the hot dog
bun was born
In medieval times in Western Europe, breads were
typically named after the class of people who typically
consumed a given type of bread. There were knight's
loaf, squire's loafs, pope's loaf, common loafs etc.
The source of the
word “mayonnaise”
is unknown, but one
guess is that it is
derived from moyeu,
Old French for egg
yolk.
The earliest
known
mention of
sausages is
in a play by
Aristophanes
from the 5th
century BC.
Even earlier, the Sicilian playwright
Epimarchus is said to have written a
play called The Sausage, sadly now
lost.
1883 James
Ritty invented
what was
nicknamed the
"Incorruptible
Cashier"
Or the first working, mechanical cash
register. His invention came with that
familiar bell sound referred to in
advertising as "The Bell Heard Round
the World".