Saturday, October 17, 2009

Real Person or Fake? --Part 3

Continuing with the July 9th Chicago Tribune's "Real Food for Real People" by Bill Daley. Back to the October 13th entry.


UNCLE BEN-- Company claims he was a legend, the picture used on the box is a real person, Chicago maitre d' named Frank Brown. FAKE


SARA LEE-- Charles Lubin started making Sara Lee cheesecakes in 1948, when his daughter Sara was 8. I don't know where the Lee came from unless it's her middle name. REAL I looked her name up and Lee is her middle name.


MARLE CALLENDAR'S-- She began baking pies at her home for a deli. She went into the pie-making business with her husband and son in a rented Quonset hut in Long Beach, California. This led to a large restaurant chain and frozen-entree business. She died in 1995 at age 88. REAL


DUNCAN HINES-- A traveling salesman turned food critic who wrote popular guidebooks rating restaurants. He was considered such a food expert that people wanted him to lend his name to different foods, including a line of cake, brownie and cookie mixes. Died in 1959 at age 79. REAL

You can see pictures of the real ones along with Post and Kellogg at
chicagotribune.com/foodicons



A Few I Knew, But Most I Didn't. --Da Coot

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