Cookies
Queen Elizabeth is credited with popularizing these cookies. She asked her royal bakers to shape cookies to look like important visiting dignitaries
What are gingerbread people?
This candy's inventor combined roasted peanuts, sugar, and salt to create a distinct, coarse peanut butter filling, encased it in a cup of smooth Hershey’s milk chocolate, and called them "Penny Cups" because they cost just one cent each
What are Reese's peanut butter cups?
In 1775, Italian physician Filippo Baldini wrote a treatise recommending this ice cream as a remedy for medical conditions like scurvy and gout. Invented decades before vanilla in Naples, this flavor of ice cream is the second most popular in the us
What is chocolate?
Charles Schulz hated the title for his iconic creation. He preferred naming it Li'l Folks, but his syndicate (United Media) insisted on the name we all know. Schulz was so unhappy with the choice that many of his early book collections and TV specials omitted the name.
What is Peanuts?
This is the oldest snack food in the world, with archaeological evidence dating back thousands of years by the aztecs and Peruvians.
What is pop corn?
Ruth Wakefield created this cookie, by accident in 1930 at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts.
What are chocolate Chip cookies?
These candies were originally created during World War II specifically for soldiers so they could enjoy chocolate without it melting in their hands
What are M&Ms?
Located at their Waterbury, Vermont, factory, more than 300 discontinued flavors (like Dastardly Mash and original recipe pints) rest with custom granite headstones
What is the flavor graveyard?
Before creating this character, Jim Davis studied the comics landscape and noticed that dog strips (like Snoopy) were wildly successful. Realising there were no major breakout cats, he explicitly set out to create a character that was highly marketable, easily recognizable, and relatable. Today, merchandise brings in up to $1 billion annuall
Who is Garfield?
An Italian monk is credited with inventing these snacks around 610 AD. He shaped leftover bread dough to look like a pair of arms crossed in prayer.
What are pretzels?
These novelty dessert cookies were actually invented in California, surprisingly by Japanese immigrants in the early 20th century.
What are fortune cookies
In the late 19th century, America was a largely rural, agricultural society. Confectioners routinely molded buttercream candies into nature-inspired shapes. When this candy was introduced, they marketed it as "Chicken Feed". The original box even featured a colorful rooster logo with the tagline: "Something worth crowing for."
What is candy corn?
This ice cream was originally invented by the Italians to represent the italian flag and later adapted to the US taste buds
What is neopolitan?
This original comic strip created in 1924 was incredibly gritty, violent, and deeply political. Harold Gray used the strip to preach conservative ideals of rugged individualism, self-reliance, and hard work. During the Great Depression and World War II, "Daddy" Warbucks frequently gave fiery monologues criticizing government overreach, labor unions, and welfare programs.
What is Little Orphan Annie?
In 1932, Charles Elmer Doolin bought a fried corn chip recipe, equipment, and 19 to 39 customer accounts in San Antonio, Texas, for $100 (partly funded by his mother pawning her wedding ring) and created this iconic corn chip
What are Fritos
Christmas cookies date back to medieval Europe, when newly available ingredients like these, (acquired through trade routes), were combined with costly butter and sugar for once-a-year holiday baking.
What are spices?
The candy bar's name is actually inspired by the fact that the creator was trying to mimic the popular malted milkshakes of the day, and not really inspired by our galaxy as some imagine.
What is the Milky Way?
Founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield originally wanted to open this kind of bakery/sandwich shop, but the equipment was too expensive. They pivoted to ice cream after taking a $5 correspondence course from Pennsylvania State University.
What is a bagel shop?
In 1975, He became the first daily comic strip cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Who is Gary Trudeau?
One of the most popular food spreads in the world, Ferrero — the makers of Nutella — use up one-quarter of the world's supply of this nut. This has resulted in a shortage and farmers struggle to keep up
What are hazelnuts?
The exact origin of the name of this best selling cookie, has been forgotten, though theories suggest it may come from the French word for gold (or) or Greek words meaning hill or appetite.
What is an Oreo?
Peter Paul Halajian,an Armenian immigrant, who hired Armenian genocide survivors to help build his candy business. Later sold to Cadbury, these two candy bars were famous for the catchy slogan: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't, From the 1970s through the 1990s.
What are Almond Joy and mounds?
John Harrison, a professional ice cream taster for Dreyer's, has these insured for $1 million
What are his taste buds?
A brilliant, gag-a-day American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Launched on November 9, 1964, the strip follows a large cast of characters in a rundown, oppressed medieval kingdom called "Id." It relies heavily on modern black humor, political satire, and clever anachronisms
What is The Wizard of Id?
Pepperidge Farm founder Margaret Rudkin discovered these crackers on a trip to Switzerland and brought them to the U.S. in 1962.
They were invented in 1958 in Switzerland by biscuit maker Oscar J. Kambly, who shaped them as a birthday gift for his wife, in the shape of her astrological sign.
What are Goldfish Crackers