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From Orville Redenbacher to Marie Callender, from Wendy's to Mrs. Fields, there are plenty of food brands out there that took their names from a real-life person. Some were named after their ...
Schillerlocken – two quite distinct foods named after the curly hair of the German poet Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805). One is cream-filled puff pastry cornets; the other is long strips of smoked dogfish belly flaps. Ranhofer named a dessert of pancakes rolled up, sliced, and layered in a mold Schiller pudding.
It was named after a real guy named Count Stroganov. Heck, even the Kentucky Hot Brown, an open-faced sandwich, was named after J. Graham Brown, the owner of the hotel where it was invented.
In 1946, Earl Tupper introduced plastic storage ware with legendary airtight seals patterned after the inverted rim on a can of paint which prevented food from drying out, wilting or losing its ...
Lists of foods named after places have been compiled by writers, sometimes on travel websites or food-oriented websites, as well as in books. Since all of these names are words derived from place names, they are all toponyms. This article covers English language food toponyms which may have originated in English or other languages.
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Take a look through the slideshow above to see 17 famous things you might not have known are actually named after people. Related: Meet the monkey species named after a 'Star Wars' character: Show ...
So "Sara Lee" isn't a cake named after Sara Lee; it's a company named after Sara Lee. "Sachertorte", however, is a cake named after Franz Sacher. Similarly, "Jim Beam whiskey" isn't a particular kind of whiskey. It's just bourbon that happens to have been distilled by Jim Beam.