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DECEMBER 28 - Today in Food History

- Eat Vegetarian Day
- National Chocolate Day
- Brobdingnagian Proboscis Day (see 1897 below)
 

On this day in:

1763 John Molson was born.  Founder of  Molson Brewery, Montreal, Canada.

1869 William Finley Semple patented the first chewing gum, although he never commercially manufactured any gum.

1886 Josephine Garis Cochran patented the first commercially successful dish washing machine.  It became a huge hit at the 1893 Columbian Exposition.   Her company eventually evolved into KitchenAid.

1897 Edmond Rostand's romantic, dramatic play 'Cyarano de Bergerac' premiers in Paris.  A unique combination of love, swordplay, comedy, pathos and proboscis.

 

 

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