Chef Boyardee. a pop icon. I love his food. his first product was spagetti sauce, people loved it when ever they ate at his restaurant. then he sold to a company and retired. and the rest is history.
Rest In Peace Chef Ettore Boiardi
thank you for making our world a better place.
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At the old Disney Hyperion Studio, the screening room where animators would show animated scenes to Walt for his approval was small, with no ventilation or AC. Not only was it hot, but the animators were nervously awaiting Walt's reaction to their work. Thus, the room became known as the Sweatbox. Even after the Studio moved to Burbank and elegant screening rooms were offered to the staff, the moniker remained.
Now SGT has a sweatbox of our own. This is the place to find and post all entertaining topics such as video links, jokes, games, and the like. A general rule of thumb is that if the thread is meant to be informative (interesting news stories for example), or a topic for discussion (like setting up a park meet) then it should go in the Break Room, but if the intent is to entertain the masses then it's home is The Sweatbox. I'm sure there will be grey areas at times, so if you have doubt as to where a new thread should go, just use your best judgement and the SGT Staff will be glad to move it later if you guessed wrong.
At the old Disney Hyperion Studio, the screening room where animators would show animated scenes to Walt for his approval was small, with no ventilation or AC. Not only was it hot, but the animators were nervously awaiting Walt's reaction to their work. Thus, the room became known as the Sweatbox. Even after the Studio moved to Burbank and elegant screening rooms were offered to the staff, the moniker remained.
Now SGT has a sweatbox of our own. This is the place to find and post all entertaining topics such as video links, jokes, games, and the like. A general rule of thumb is that if the thread is meant to be informative (interesting news stories for example), or a topic for discussion (like setting up a park meet) then it should go in the Break Room, but if the intent is to entertain the masses then it's home is The Sweatbox. I'm sure there will be grey areas at times, so if you have doubt as to where a new thread should go, just use your best judgement and the SGT Staff will be glad to move it later if you guessed wrong.
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Huh. I never knew there was a real person behind the brand -- although I always wondered about the brand name's origin.drcorey wrote:Chef Boyardee. a pop icon. I love his food. his first product was spagetti sauce, people loved it when ever they ate at his restaurant. then he sold to a company and retired. and the rest is history.
Rest In Peace Chef Ettore Boiardi
thank you for making our world a better place.
"This would be a great place if we could only get rid of all these people." - Walt Disney
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yes, he was real. put his name as Boyardee on the labels because no one could pronounce his name with the proper spelling.BRWombat wrote:Huh. I never knew there was a real person behind the brand -- although I always wondered about the brand name's origin.
hmm, I wish Betty Crocker was real.
here is some info about him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi
his last child died in 2007. and was his only son.
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She's not?!?!drcorey wrote:I wish Betty Crocker was real.
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There was a show about all these people on the food channel, and I remember the suprise on who was and wasn't real!
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Nope, Betty Crocker was originally like Dear Abby for cooks. When the company decided to put a face to the fictional name--Betty was popular then--they created a picture of what they felt a typical homemaker looked like. When I saw the pictures of the Bettys through the company's history, I thought the first Betty looked like she was ready to bite somebody's head off. Over the years, they've tried to incorporate features of ethnic types, so the current Betty looks a little bit Hispanic.
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and for 5 points, how many times has Betty's image been updated?felinefan wrote:Nope, Betty Crocker was originally like Dear Abby for cooks. When the company decided to put a face to the fictional name--Betty was popular then--they created a picture of what they felt a typical homemaker looked like. When I saw the pictures of the Bettys through the company's history, I thought the first Betty looked like she was ready to bite somebody's head off. Over the years, they've tried to incorporate features of ethnic types, so the current Betty looks a little bit Hispanic.
side note:
the company still gets love letters and marriage proposals to her to this day.
oh baby, show me your muffins... hmm, blueberry!
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Ah, yes... I fondly remember playing on the kitchen floor as a baby while my Aunt Jemimah made pancakes...GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:There was a show about all these people on the food channel, and I remember the suprise on who was and wasn't real!
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If you take the Betty Crocker walnut chocolate chip cookie mix and add Hershey's mint chocolate chips, you have a killer cookie. ;)
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There has to be a more efficient way to kill people than with cookies.turkeyham wrote:If you take the Betty Crocker walnut chocolate chip cookie mix and add Hershey's mint chocolate chips, you have a killer cookie. ;)
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