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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1971 to 1975 - Next
1971 The Quarter Pounder was introduced at McDonald's for 53 cents.
1971 The home food processor, Le Magi-Mix, was introduced in Paris by Pierre Verdon, also the inventor of the restaurant version, Robot-Coupe.
1971 Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.
1971 The first Starbucks opened in Seattle.
1971 The coldest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was recorded at Prospect Creek Camp on the Alaskan Pipeline in northern Alaska - minus 80 degrees F.
1971 Smoke-flavored SPAM was introduced.
1971 'One Bad Apple' by the Osmonds reached Number 1 on the charts.
1971 Don Maclean recorded 'American Pie'.
1971 'Brown Sugar' by the Rolling Stones hits number 1 on the charts.
1971 'Want Ads' by Honey Cone hit #1 on the charts
1971 Sir John Boyd Orr died. A Scottish scientist and nutrition expert, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to eliminate world hunger.
1971 The final episode of 'The Beverly Hillbillies' TV show is aired.
1971 Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey closed.
1971 Greenpeace founded.
1971 Coca Cola introduces the plastic bottle.
1971 Disney World opened at Orlando, Florida.
1971 French's Onion Bits were introduced.
1971 Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York legalized the year round sale of oysters. Previously their sale had been illegal from May to August.
1972 "American Pie" by Don McLean hit #1 on the charts.
1972 Andy MacElhone created the Blue Lagoon cocktail. He is the son of Harry of Harry's Bar in Paris.
1972 Hyman Golden and Leonard Marsh introduced Snapple Fruit Juices in New York.
1972 Leslie Revsin became chef at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. She was the first female chef to head a major hotel kitchen.
1972 The Culinary Institute of America moved to Hyde Park, N.Y. from New Haven, Connecticut.
1972 The first Ruby Tuesday restaurant was opened by Sandy Beall and 4 fraternity brothers near the Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee.
1972 'The Candy Man' by Sammy Davis Jr. hit #1 on the charts
1972 The EPA totally banned DDT in the USA. It's residue is still found in some foods grown in the U.S. in 2002.
1972 'Coconut' by Nilsson hit number 8 on the charts.
1972 Louis Leakey died. Anthropologist largely responsible for convincing scientists that Africa was the place to search for human origins, not Java or China. Together with his wife Mary, they made many significant fossil discoveries.
1972 'Everybody Plays The Fool' by Main Ingredient hit #1 on the charts
1973 American Carl Sontheimer refined the French made Robot-Coupe and came up with the Cuisinart.
1973 Nathaniel Weyth received patent for PET (polyethylene terephthalate) beverage bottles. This was the first safe plastic strong enough to hold carbonated beverages without bursting.
1973 The first metric distance road signs in the U.S., were erected between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio.
1973 UK: Wrexham Asda supermarket opened.
1973 William Motter Inge died. An American playwright, he was the author of 'Picnic' which was also filmed in 1956.
1973 J.R.R. Tolkien died. Author of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. Food and hospitality play important roles in both.
1973 Due to large Soviet purchases of wheat, corn & soybeans last year, food prices soar in the U.S. President Nixon freezes retail food prices & a temporary embargo on soybeans & cottonseeds. The rising grain and oil prices cause a world monetary crisis and the worst world economic recession since the 1930s.
1973 'Beard on Bread' by James Beard is published.
1973 'Promise' brand margarine was introduced.
1973 'Stove Top Dressing' was introduced by General Foods.
1973 'Cup o'Noodles' was introduced in the U.S. by Nissin Foods.
1973 Sales of Vodka beat out whiskey sales in the U.S. for the first time.
1973 Heinz cannot fill its orders of ketchup to McDonald's due to a tomato shortage.
1973 Coleman's Mustard celebrates its 150th anniversary.
1974 The stay-on tab for beverage cans was invented.
1974 Pop Rocks were unveiled by General Foods. Ever since 1956, when company research chemist William Mitchell found a way to put carbon dioxide into a solid, General Foods searched for a way to market the invention. The popping, crackling candy turns out to be worth the wait; in only five years the company will have sold 500 million packets of Pop Rocks.
1974 Jif brand Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter was introduced.
1974 The Super Tornado Outbreak. 148 tornadoes in 13 states in 26 hours. The world's largest tornado outbreak in recorded history. It included six F5 tornadoes and 30 F4 tornadoes. The first tornado hit at 1 p.m. and the final tornado hit at 2 a.m. the following morning.
1974 Adelle Davis died. Nutritionist, and author of 'Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit.' She promoted many theories that have been labeled as unfounded and dangerous by the medical community.
1974 The Clevend Indians were playing bad, and fewer and fewer fans came to watch them play. They had a ‘Ten Cent Beer Night’ to bring out the fans. Only 22,000 fans turned out in a stadium that could seat 60,000, but they made up for the low numbers by becoming so drunk and unruly, going on the field and disrupting the game, that the Indians had to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers.
1974 The first checkout scanner was installed in a supermarket.
1974 A package of Wrigley’s chewing gum with a bar code printed on it was the 1st product logged on the new Universal Product Code system (UPC).
1974 Mama Cass Elliot (The Mamas and the Papas) died today in London. The rumor that she choked to death on a ham sandwich is not true. She actually died of a heart attack.
1974 It is first reported that freon from aerosol cans is destroying the ozone layer above the earth.
1974 The TV show 'Alice' debuted. Most of the action took place in Mel's Diner.
1974 The first McDonald's restaurant opened in London.
1974 London's famous flower and vegetable market moves from Covent Garden.
1974 The discovery of the 'charmed quark', a subatomic particle, was announced.
1974 After more than 125 years, salmon returned to the River Thames in England.
1974 The BBC broadcast the last episode of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus.'
1974 French's Mustard squeeze package was introduced.
1975 Working with Canadian zoologist Freud Urquhart, amateur naturalist Kenneth C. Brugger discovered the winter home of the Monarch butterfly in the mountains of central Mexico. The refuge he found was only about 200 square meters and contained about 20 million butterflies.
1975 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist, died.
1975 'Lady Marmalade' by LaBelle hit #1 on the charts
1975 Percy L. Julian died. An African American chemist, he worked on synthesizing various compounds from soy beans. One of his creations was a foam fire extinguisher refined from soya protein.
1975 British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was born. Known as the 'Naked Chef,' on his BBC TV cooking shows (the name refers to simplicity, not nudity). He has had several TV shows, 'The Naked Chef,' 'Return of the Naked Chef,' 'Happy Days with the Naked Chef,' 'Jamie's Kitchen,' 'Return to Jamie's Kitchen,' and 'Oliver's Twist.' He has also written several cookbooks.
1975 The first episode of 'Fawlty Towers' premiered.
1975 On the 'Mary Tyler Moore Show,' Chuckles the Clown is killed by an Elephant while he is dressed in a peanut suit.
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