The History Of Margarine Hasn’t Always Been Smooth (Cool Weird Awesome 1322)

Today in 1869, inventor Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès received the French patent for margarine. The butter substitute is used around the world today, though for a while it was banned in parts of the US.

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Jim Delligatti, The Father Of The Big Mac (Cool Weird Awesome 1312)

For National Cheeseburger Day, here’s the story of the guy who brought us one of the world’s most massive and massively popular burgers.

By |2024-09-18T07:07:00-04:00September 18, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , |

Colonel Sanders Was The Face Of KFC, And Occasionally Its Vocal Critic (Cool Weird Awesome 1305)

Today in 1890, the birthday of Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder and public face of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and who, for a while, was also a pretty big critic of the fast food brand he started. 

By |2024-09-09T06:55:41-04:00September 9, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Baby Food Giant Gerber Once Sold Jars Of Mushed Up Food For Adults (Cool Weird Awesome 1302)

Long before people on the internet came up with the baby food diet, there was this.

By |2024-09-04T06:59:36-04:00September 4, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Ignacio Anaya García, The Inventor Of Nachos (Cool Weird Awesome 1293)

Today's the birthday in 1895 of an inventor with a huge legacy: Ignacio Anaya Garcia, the man who gave us nachos. 

By |2024-08-15T09:04:35-04:00August 15, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

The Ice Cream Cone Got The Spotlight At The 1904 World’s Fair, But That Isn’t When It Was Invented (Cool Weird Awesome 1281)

Today was the day in 1904 that a guy at the St. Louis World’s Fair supposedly invented the ice cream cone. Except that ice cream cones were around for more than a century before that.

Legend Says Instead of Fighting A War, Two Armies In Switzerland Sat Down For Some Soup (Cool Weird Awesome 1255)

Legend has it that today in 1529, two armies in Switzerland decided that instead of having a war, they would have some soup.

By |2024-06-10T08:23:41-04:00June 10, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , |

American Cheese Got Its Start With A Guy From Canada (Cool Weird Awesome 1251)

It's National Cheese Day! Today we're telling the story of American cheese, which got its start from a guy who emigrated to Chicago from Ontario.

By |2024-06-04T07:49:31-04:00June 4, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

Some People Are Sweet On Kool-Aid Pickles, But Others Have Soured On The Idea (Cool Weird Awesome 1239)

Today in 2007, the New York Times published a feature story on Kool Aid pickles, a sweet and sour treat that found some diehard fans in the southern US.

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