FOOD HISTORY
This ancient treat is simply boiled sugar and water with flavoring and color which is then molded into shapes. The sticks weren’t added until the 20th century.
Lollipops
November 9, 1989 In Berlin, Germany?
The Berlin Wall fell.
Bruised.
Black and blue
When the king of Poland moved his court from Krakow to this more central city in 1596, it became the country’s capital.
Warsaw
She met future husband Edwin Schlossberg, a NYC designer, in 1980, just before she started law school.
Caroline Kennedy
In 1912, Nabisco filed a patent for this product, which was described as “two beautifully embossed chocolate flavored wafers with a rich cream filling.”
Oreo cookies
December 7, 1941 in Hawaii?
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
Happening unexpectedly.
Out of the blue
This hyphenated city is still the primary manufacturing center of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Winston-Salem, NC
Don Gummer married this actress shortly before she started shooting Kramer vs. Kramer in 1978.
Meryl Streep. (Streep and Gummer separated in 2017 after 39 years of marriage.)
In the 1890s, this company slashed the shipping price of a can of soup by condensing it (removing the water).
Campbell’s
April 15, 1912 on the North Atlantic Ocean?
The Titanic sank.
Nickname for a large US high-tech company.
Big Blue (IBM)
Arthur Wellesley, the first duke of this English city, lent his name to this practical style of rubber boots … and also to this dish of beef wrapped in pastry.
Wellington
Elizabeth “Liddy” Hanford was introduced to her future husband in 1972, three years after he was elected to the US Senate from Kansas.
Bob Dole
Native Americans taught the earliest settlers in New England how to make this natural sweetener, which keeps for a long time and is easier to transport than liquid syrup.
Maple sugar
August 9, 1974 in Washington, DC?
Richard Nixon resigned the presidency.
Very rarely occurring.
Once in a blue moon
For decades, this city vied with Springfield as the second-largest city in Massachusetts.
Worcester (pronounced with two syllables: WHUS•ter)
Danny Moder, a cinematographer, married this actress in 2002, one year after she received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Erin Brockovich.
Julia Roberts
Delmonico's restaurant in Manhattan is credited with inventing this hot and cold dessert in honor of an 1867 US land purchase.
Baked Alaska
April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee?
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
Having royal or aristocratic heritage.
Blue-blooded
This Irish city is famous around the world for its fine crystal ware.
Waterford
Four months after starting work at a new company near Seattle, Melinda French met the boss … and married him nearly eight years later.
Bill Gates. (Bill and Melinda Gates divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage.)