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MAY 14 - History of food and drink
Click here for a list of May Food Shows, Festivals, etc
National Buttermilk Biscuit Day
National Dance Like a Chicken Day
1686 Gabriel Fahrenheit was born. Fahrenheit was a German physicist who invented the Fahrenheit temperature scale thermometer. It was the first thermometer to use mercury instead of alcohol, which also extended the temperature range of thermometers.
1853 Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk.
1878 Vaseline petroleum jelly was trademarked by Robert August Chesebrough.
1919 Henry John Heinz died. Founder of the H.J. Heinz company and creator of its slogan '57 varieties.'
1943 Jack Bruce of the music group 'Cream' was born.
1985 The first McDonald’s restaurant, in Des Plains, Illinois, became the first fast food museum.
1991 World's largest burrito created, 1,126 pounds
1994 The FDA announced that the 'Flavr Savr' tomato, a biotech developed food, is safe.
2008 The Chicago City Council repealed its ban on the sale of Foie Gras.
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