Bonus puzzles › #21
What's for Dinner — bonus #21 answers
Theme: What's for Dinner
Starting event: Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's franchise in Illinois (1955)
The full timeline
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1810Preserving
Nicolas Appert is rewarded for working out how to preserve food by canning it
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1847Sweets
Joseph Fry sells a bar of chocolate made for eating rather than drinking
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1853
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1864Science
Louis Pasteur works out how gentle heating keeps drinks from spoiling
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1869Dairy
Margarine is created to win a French prize for a cheap butter substitute
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1886
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1889Restaurants
A pizza is said to have been made in Naples for the visiting queen and named after her
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1894Cereal
Will Kellogg creates corn flakes for patients at a Michigan sanitarium
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1901Coffee
Luigi Bezzera patents improvements that make the espresso machine practical
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1908
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1913
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1916Shops
The first self-service grocery store opens, letting shoppers pick their own goods
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1924Frozen
Clarence Birdseye founds a company to sell food frozen by his quick-freezing method
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1928
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1947Appliances
Percy Spencer patents the microwave oven after a radar set melts his snack
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1952Fast Food
Colonel Sanders franchises Kentucky Fried Chicken for the first time
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1953
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1955Fast FoodStarting event
Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's franchise in Illinois
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1958
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1971Coffee
A coffee shop called Starbucks opens at Pike Place Market in Seattle
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1979