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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1981 to 1985 - Next
1981 Lean Cuisine frozen dinners were introduced.
1981 The artificial sweetener aspartame was approved by the FDA
1981 The Yukon Gold potato was introduced.
1981 Jell-O Gelatin Pops were introduced
1981 Radicchio (a red variety of chicory) was first grown commercially in this country in 1981 in California.
1981 Bob Hite died. Singer with Canned Heat.
1981 Dunkin Donuts opened its first store in the Philippines.
1981 In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts.
1981 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously.
1981 IBM introduced its Personal Computer (PC) and PC-DOS 1.0
1981 The USDA announced that ketchup could be counted as a vegetable in the school lunch program.
1981 The FDA approved the artificial sweetener Aspartame (NutraSweet) for tabletop use.
1981 Dunkin' Donuts opened its first store in Thailand.
1981 'Pigmeat' Markham died. American actor, comedian. ("Here comes the Judge.").
1981 Hunt's increased the number of tomatoes in each can of tomato sauce from 4 to 4 1/2 due to consumer demand for thicker sauce.
1982 Newman's Own Food is founded by Paul Newman and he devotes the profits to charity.
1982 Reese's Pieces are E.T.'s favorite candy.
1982 A cow in Cuba, named Ubre Blanca, set a world record when it produced 28 gallons of milk in one day, which is about 4 times an average cow's daily output. Ubre Blanca later set the record for total output during a 305 day lactation period of 6,405 gallons.
1982 Wolfgang Puck and his wife & partner, Barbara Lazaroff, opened their restaurant 'Spago' in Los Angeles.
1982 Saturday Night Live had viewers vote whether to boil 'Larry the Lobster' or not. The audience voted to free him
1982 The Conch Republic (Florida Keys) seceded from the United States to protest an INS (Immigration & Naturalization Service) roadblock on the only road into the Keys.
1982 A record low temperature of -117 F was recorded at the South Pole.
1982 Larry Walters used 45 helium filled weather ballons tied to an aluminum lawn chair to ascend to 16,000 feet above Long Beach. Several very perplexed commercial airline pilots reported seeing Larry sittring in his lawn chair in the sky to the Long Beach airport. The FAA fined him $4,000, but later settled for $1,500.
1982 Diet Coke was introduced.
1982 First Farm Aid Concert was held at Champaign, Illinois.
1982 The TV show 'Cheers' debuted.
1982 Waverley Root, cookbook and food author died in Paris at age 79.
1982 'Maneater' by Daryl Hall & John Oates hit #1 on the charts
1982 The 'Time' magazine Man of the Year was the personal computer.
1982 A second full moon occurred during the month (a 'blue moon'). What makes this one even more unusual was that it was also a total lunar eclipse in the U.S. (A 'blue moon' occurs once every 2.7 years)
1982 French's introduced its 'Bold'n Spicy' mustard (now called 'Spicy Brown')
1983 Wendy's introduced Baked Potatoes with toppings.
1983 Karen Carpenter died from anorexia nervosa.
1983 Jack Dempsey died. Regarded as one of the greatest boxers, he held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. He then became a successful restaurateur in New York City.
1983 A new low record temperature was recorded at Vostok Station, Antartica, -128.6 F
1983 Dave Winfield, a N.Y. Yankee outfielder accidentally killed a seagull with an errant throw in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays. He was arrested, charged with cruelty to animals and had to post a $500 bond. The charges were dropped the following day.
1983 Rolla N. Harger died. A biochemist, he invented the first successful test machine for blood alcohol content, the Drunkometer, in 1931.
1983 Earl Silas Tupper died. The inventor of Tupperware. (Tupperware makes the containers used to conduct mold and bacterial experiments in the back of refrigerator shelves).
1983 'Maneater' by Daryl Hall & John Oates hit #1 on the charts.
1983 The last wringer washer machine was made by Maytag.
1983 Alfred Heineken, president of Heinken (the beer) was kidnapped. He was freed after a ransom was paid 3 weeks later.
1983 French's introduced its Dijon mustard.
1984 Sugar Free Jell-O is introduced.
1984 McDonald's served its 50 billionth hamburger.
1984 The California Dancing Raisin was introduced in 1984 by the California Raisin Industry marketing staff to increase awareness and demand for California raisins.
1984 Ronald Reagan declared July 'National Ice Cream Month'
1984 Wendy's 'Where's the Beef?' ad campaign debuted.
1984 Ray Kroc died in San Diego, California. Ray Kroc sold blenders for milkshakes, and one of his customers was a restaurant in San Bernardino, California owned by Maurice and Richard McDonald. Kroc set up a chain of drive-in restaurants based on their efficient assembly line production kitchen. He opened his first restaurant on April 15, 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois. By 1961 he had 228 restaurants and he bought out the McDonald brothers. When he died in 1984 there were over 7,500 McDonald's restaurants."
1984 Michael Jackson's hair catches fire while filming a Pepsi commercial.
1984 A section of Central Park is renamed 'Strawberry Fields' to honor John Lennon.
1984 Fred Waring, musician, died. Frederick Osius worked on improving the electric blender, and went to Waring for financial backing. Waring backed its development, in part, so he could puree raw vegetables for the ulcer diet his doctors prescribed. The Waring Blender (originally called the Miracle Mixer) debuted in 1937 and sold for $29.75. By 1954 one million Waring Blendors had been sold.
1984 Sylvan N. Goldman died. Goldman ran a successful chain of grocery stores, and while a major owner of the Piggly-Wiggly supermarket chain he invented the shopping cart. He hired fake shoppers to wheel them around the store to encourage his customers to see how useful they could be.
1984 The world's worst industrial disaster occurred in Bhopal, India. Over 40 tons of poisonous gas leaked out of a Union carbide pesticide factory. About 3,800 were killed and over 300,000 people suffered acute respiratory problems, burning eyes and vomiting. An independent Investigation has shown a strong possibility of employee sabotage as a cause of the disaster, although this has not been proved.
1985 Coca Cola introduces its new formula - no one wants it.
1985 James Beard, culinary expert and cookbook author, died in New York at age 81.
1985 Perrier introduced Perrier with 'a twist of lemon' - its first new product in 125 years.
1985 Cherry Coke is introduced. Actually, soda fountains (remember them?) had been making them for decades.
1985 Clarence Nash died. The original voice of Donald Duck.
1985 Nathan Pritikin died. A nutritionist who believed that exercise and a low fat, high unrefined carbohydrate diet helped reverse his own heart disease. He founded the Pritikin Longevity Center in 1976.
1985 The Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood, California closed after 57 years. Robert Cobb, owner of the Brown Derby, created the Cobb Salad there in 1936.
1985 The four 'unicorns' of Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus were declared to be only goats with surgically implanted horns by federal inspectors. The circus was ordered to stop advertising them as unicorns.
1985 The first McDonald’s restaurant, in Des Plains, Illinois, became the first fast food museum.
1985 The largest salmon, a chinook salmon, caught with rod and reel weighed over 97 pounds and was caught in Alaska.
1985 Creme Fraiche won the Belmont Stakes, ridden by Jockey Eddie Maple.
1985 'Most Embarrassing Moment': Coca Cola announced it was bringing back the old formula Coke, to replace the New Coke nobody wanted.
1985 James A. Dewar, died. The creator of the Twinkie (1930)
1985 The honey bee was designated the official state insect of Missouri on July 3, 1985.
1985 'Raspberry Beret' by Prince & The Revolution hit #1 on the charts
1985 Dr. Harlan Stone announced he had developed zippers to use in place of stitches after operations on patients who might require a second operation.
1985 The wreckage of the British luxury liner 'Titanic' was located 73 years after it sank. This inspired a new interest in the menu and last meals that were served on the ship.
1985 William Cumming Rose died. An American biochemist, he researched amino acids, and established the importance of the 8 essential amino acids in human nutrition.
1985 Strawberry Fields, a 2 1/2 acre garden memorial in New York City's Central Park, was formally dedicated to John Lennon.
1985 The largest grouper caught with rod and reel weighed over 436 pounds. It was caught in Destin, Florida.
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