History Of Foods

Neil and Carl Fletcher serve their corny dogs at the State Fair of Texas.

The Wrigley Co. packs K rations for troops containing canned meat, 4 cigarettes, compressed Graham biscuits, 3 tablets of sugar, and a stick of chewing gum.

The frozen food industry balloons as producers look for alternatives to metal cans during the war years.

U.S. consumers hoard coffee, leading to coffee rationing (1 lb every five weeks). Sugar and meat had already been rationed.