1925 | Food And Drink
Food And Drink
Yeast magnate Julius Fleischmann falls dead of heart attack at age 52 February 5 while playing in the fourth chukker of a match at Miami's Nautilus Polo Field.
U.S. refrigerator sales reach 75,000, up from 10,000 in 1920, as prices come down and consumer incomes rise (see 1929; GE, 1927).
Star Can Co. of San Francisco introduces the first new can opener since one patented by William Lyman in 1870. It has a serrated rotation wheel and will be the basis of the electric can opener.
Le Creuset enameled cast iron cookware is introduced by a factory at Fresnoy-le-Grand in northern France using sand molds for hand-cast molten iron pots and pans that are polished and sanded by hand before being sprayed with two separate coats of enamel and fired after each process at a temperature of 800° C.
Minnesota Valley Canning Co. begins canning a new, European pea variety and adopts as its advertising symbol a giant wearing a bearskin and carrying a club (see 1907; Jolly Green Giant, 1935).