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sold for use in kitchen ice chests. It is the early 1930s before reliable electric home refrigerators are in common use.
Campbell, Brooklyn, is the
first to deliver milk in glass bottles.
For manyyears the neighborhood milkman is the most common way to obtain fresh milk, before the age
of supermarkets.
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opensinEngland. By 1700, there are 2,i coffeehouses in London alone. Earlycoffeehouses
As the millennium begins, European peasant are important places to food is plain and often scarce. Feasting on transact business. Lloyd’s
meat is reserved for the wealthy. Table utensils include only a knife; most people just eat with their hands. Slabs of dense bread, called trenchers, serve as plates.
Coffeehouse evolves into Lloyd’s of London, the giant insurance brokerage.
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sold in boxes designed to look like television sets. Frozen dinners are possible because of Clarence Birdseye’s 1929 invention of early methods for freezing food.
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America’s first large self-service supermarket opens, followed by the invention of the grocery' shoppingcartin1937. DuringtheDepression, supermarkets become a significant part of the food distribution network.
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Choices expand in school lunch programs. Agrowing number of public schools begin featuring national fast-food outlets and soft drink brands in the school lunchroom.
John Montagu, 4'“Earl of Sandwich, instructs his servants to bring him his meat between twopiecesofbread. Thiswayhecaneatwith one hand while continuing to play cards with theother. Theterm“sandwich”isborn.