McDonald's Before McDonald's (from HISTORY This Week)
If you liked this episode, subscribe to HISTORY This Week wherever you listen to podcasts! May 15, 1940. It’s opening day. San Bernardino, C...
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America’s Restaurants Meet the Michelin Man (from HISTORY This Week)
Find HISTORY This Week wherever you listen to podcasts! February 23, 2005. New York City's culinary elite gather at Gotham Hall. Tuxedoed wa...
Nixon Does Whatever It Takes to Win in ’68 (from HISTORY This Week)
This is a brand-new episode from HISTORY This Week, available wherever you listen to podcasts! September 16, 1968. Richard Nixon isn't exact...
HISTORY This Week is returning this Monday, 9/16!
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Taco Bell
In the mid-50s, a San Bernardino man named Glen Bell is fixated on McDonald’s. His own burger stand is in shambles, and he’s trying to bounc...
Pop Stars
Popcorn may very well be the oldest snack food on the planet, but for much of its modern history it was something to be consumed in movie th...
Let Them Eat Snack Cake
Nowadays, grocery stores and gas stations are filled with Little Debbie products. In the 1950s, though, snack cakes were just gaining popula...
Cookie Fortunes
In the mid 1970s, a woman who wants to be more than just a housewife, is tired of living in her husband’s shadow. Armed with her phenomenal...
Chain Reaction
In the mid-60s, a single perfume salesman finds himself struggling to meet women to date. So, he goes to the bar to complain to the bartende...
A Dish Best Served Soft
In Illinois, a father and son working in the wholesale ice cream mixing business have an idea. Convinced that ice cream tastes better fresh...
Do or Donut
Post-World War Two, a food entrepreneur sees promise in a new business. In 1948, William Rosenberg notices two of his offerings selling bett...
A Cold One
150 years ago, German immigrants in the Midwest write the history of beer in America. A recently shipwrecked steamboat captain - Captain Fre...
Submarine Warfare
Sixty years ago, sandwiches were finger food, not a whole meal, and certainly not sold as fast food. But when three high school friends enco...
Once You Pop
In the 1950s, one of the biggest companies in the world - Procter and Gamble - decides to enter the chip business. A chemist for P&G designs...
Cookie Wars
Nabisco, the most popular cookie company, is born when an ill-fated partnership leads Adolphus Green to revolutionize packaging and create o...
A Game of Chicken
In the 1970's, Ray Kroc of McDonald’s is far ahead of the competition. But when a burger chain called Burger King poaches his third-highest...
Gum Slingers
William Wrigley, whose name will later adorn sports stadiums and buildings, first stumbles upon a new product that will kickstart a revoluti...
The Big Cheese
At the turn of the 20th century, James Kraft challenges thousands of years of cheese-making tradition and forever alters the dairy industry...
King of Burgers
In the 1950s, two Florida visionaries start Insta-Burger King, a burger stand that will become Ray Kroc and McDonald’s biggest rival, re-inv...
Announcing: The Food That Built America Season 2
The Food That Built America is back, and believe it when we say it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Season two will take you behind...