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This is a miniseries on the History Channel. Heinz Ketchup, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, Post Grape Nuts, Coca-Cola, Hershey’s Chocolate, and Bird’s Eye are some of the foods they show the history of their founding. Scandal, corporate espionage, using federal regulations to fight competition, backstabbing deals, extreme risk taking, court room battles (company vs federal government and brother vs brother) and all of that was the first 1 1/2 episodes.
This is a miniseries on the History Channel. Heinz Ketchup, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, Post Grape Nuts, Coca-Cola, Hershey’s Chocolate, and Bird’s Eye are some of the foods they show the history of their founding. Scandal, corporate espionage, using federal regulations to fight competition, backstabbing deals, extreme risk taking, court room battles (company vs federal government and brother vs brother) and all of that was the first 1 1/2 episodes.
This should be called Foods that made America fattest country in history with most childhood diabetes, heart disease, etc etc.
This should be called Foods that made America fattest country in history with most childhood diabetes, heart disease, etc etc.
Really. When I saw the title of this thread, I thought, stupidly, that it would be a discussion of food history, such as wheat and corn crops that the colonists grew.
For example, Agriculture in Virgina 1607-1699 by Lyman Carrier, or the role of railways in transporting mid-western crops to east coast cities in the 1840s.
Instead, we get a steady diet of whiny politicking and pompous moralizing on this the "history" forum, like so much junk food.
This should be called Foods that made America fattest country in history with most childhood diabetes, heart disease, etc etc.
Frozen vegetables aren’t fattening. Grape Nuts and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes aren’t fattening. Each story had a link to the development of this country following the US Civil War. Some of these foods and companies helped this country through the Great Depression. Some of these companies and foods helped Europe survive following the end of the great wars. The revolutions of these companies is a big part of today’s American industry.
This should be called Foods that made America fattest country in history with most childhood diabetes, heart disease, etc etc.
No one forces a Hersheys chocolate bar into any consumers mouth. Actually, I found Milton Hershey's vision for a community and workplace that took care of his workers, even during the Depression, to be inspiring. Not one of his employees lost their jobs, a real difference from modern corporations where pensions can be eliminated, workers are "at will", etc.
No one forces a Hersheys chocolate bar into any consumers mouth. Actually, I found Milton Hershey's vision for a community and workplace that took care of his workers, even during the Depression, to be inspiring. Not one of his employees lost their jobs, a real difference from modern corporations where pensions can be eliminated, workers are "at will", etc.
Unfortunately, around 2008 Hershey closed plants, layed off workers, and moved a large portion of it's operation out of the USA and down to Mexico. Oh well.
Unfortunately, around 2008 Hershey closed plants, layed off workers, and moved a large portion of it's operation out of the USA and down to Mexico. Oh well.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw the part about him not wanting to lay-off workers during the depression. The union strike soured him on his employees.
I just started watching this show last night and recorded the next one. So far I have really enjoyed the content.
The show is similar to the show "The men who build America", which I also really enjoyed.
The men that built America was garbage.
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Actually, I found Milton Hershey's vision for a community and workplace that took care of his workers, even during the Depression, to be inspiring. Not one of his employees lost their jobs, a real difference from modern corporations where pensions can be eliminated, workers are "at will", etc.
