Category: Food Facts – Food History

Make A Root Beer Float Or A Black Cow: It’s National Root Beer Float Day

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[1] The classic Root Beer Float: root beer and vanilla ice cream (photo by ShagPhoto | iStock Photo). [2] A Black Cow is a root beer float with chocolate ice cream (photo © The Nibble). [3] How now, Brown Cow? Make one and find out: Substitute Coke for the root beer (photo © Smucker’s. [4]…
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PRODUCT: Pepperidge Farm Vanilla Grahams Goldfish For National Animal Crackers Day

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April 18th is National Animal Crackers Day.   THE HISTORY OF ANIMAL CRACKERS Animal crackers originated in England in the late 1800s, as animal biscuits. When, in 1889, P.T. Barnum decided to tour England with his circus, several manufacturers took advantage of a marketing opportunity and called the biscuits “Barnum’s.” The animal biscuits were exported…
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