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Jimmy Dean was born in Plainview, Texas, in 1928. Dean is famous as a country music singer, and the original creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade, and toured as an entertainer for the U.S Air Force during the 40′s. In the 50′s Dean would appear [...]
Harris was the owner and captain of the crab fishing boat F/V Cornelia Marie, which was featured on the Discovery Channel’s hit reality television show Deadliest Catch.
Bell was a businessman who founded the fast food chain Taco Bell. In 1948 Bell started his first hot dog stand called Bell’s Drive-In in San Bernardino. In 1952 Bell sold the business and used the that money to build a second stand that sold both hot dogs and hamburgers. Shortly after opening, the shop [...]
DeLuise was an actor, comedian, director, producer and chef. He began his career as a regular performer on the television show The Entertainers in 1964. Later, he was hired by TV producer Greg Garrison to appear periodically on the Dean Martin Show. DeLUise would go on as “Dominick the Great”, a magic act gone horribly [...]
Thomas is best known for founding the fast food chain Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers. Thomas never graduated from high school, he dropped out when he was only 15 so he could focus on his job as busboy at the Hobby House restaurant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It’s at that same restaurant he would meet his [...]
Peterson is the man who invented the McDonald’s Egg McMuffin in 1972. He was a food executive and food scientist. Being a huge fan of eggs benedict, Peterson wanted to do something similar for the new breakfast sandwich he was developing. He eventually came up with the Egg McMuffin, which is an Egg sandwich (with [...]
While famous for cake mix, Duncan Hines was actually a writer of travel guides, and a restaurant/hotel critic. He published a cookbook in 1939, and by ’47, his name was well respected. It was then that Roy H. Park, an entrepreneur, wanted to sell kitchen products using the Duncan Hines name. That name was eventually [...]
Raymond Albert Kroc is not the founder of McDonald’s exactly, but he took it over as a small franchise in ’61 and built it up into the biggest fast food name in the world. Before McDonald’s he was a paper-cup salesman, a musician, and worked at a radio station. He met Richard and Maurice McDonald [...]
Hardee, the founder of the fast food chain Hardee’s, opened his first restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina in 1960. It was an instant success, mainly due to its strong menu. James Carson Gardner and Leonard Rawls formed a partnership with Hardee to further expand his chain. The company went public in 1963, but the partnership [...]
Harland David Sanders is known as Colonel Sanders, the creator of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and of course The Colonel’s Original Recipe. Sanders was actually not a Colonel in the military, but a private in the Army. He was given the nickname the “Kentucky Colonel” by Governor Ruby Laffoon. The Colonel’s original recipe is still kept [...]
Eberling was a German-American chef who invented SpaghettiOs, and won over the hearts of children everywhere. After the Korean War Eberling began working in the development department at Campbell Soup Co., this is where he got his idea for “spaghetti and meatballs” in a can. He got the idea for the “O” when he saw [...]