{"id":12,"date":"2006-06-02T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T19:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/12-frozen-food-facts"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:42:07","slug":"frozen-food-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/12-frozen-food-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Food Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Frozen Food\" alt=\"Frozen Food\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/frozenfood.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Today, we can barely live without packaged frozen food, but this ubiquitous food staple, as we know it, is only seventy-five years old.\u00a0 See how many of these frozen food facts you know.<\/p>\n<p>1. Clarence Birdseye is generally acknowledged as the father of frozen food.\u00a0 His &#8220;Birdseye&#8221; line first appeared in March of 1930.\u00a0 The company stills sells frozen fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>2. Mr. Birdseye learned about preserving food by freezing it from Canada&#8217;s Inuit people.<\/p>\n<p>3. Frozen food was rather slow to catch on.\u00a0 Consumers didn&#8217;t think to look in the ice cream cooler for dinner.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n4. The optimistic, postwar-World War II years of the 1950s, saw an explosion in frozen food consumption as well as the varieties offered, but still only 64 percent of grocery stores had a frozen food department.<\/p>\n<p>5. Swanson introduced the first TV dinner in the mid-1950s and a whole industry was born.<\/p>\n<p>6. March is National Frozen Food Month in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>7. The Chinese preserved food with ice cellars, an early method of freezing, as early as 1000 B.C.<\/p>\n<p>8. Restrictions on tin during World War II favored the fledgling frozen food industry, which used paper and cardboard, rather than tin cans, to package their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we can barely live without packaged frozen food, but this ubiquitous food staple, as we know it, is only seventy-five years old.\u00a0 See how many of these frozen food facts you know. 1. Clarence Birdseye is generally acknowledged as the father of frozen food.\u00a0 His &#8220;Birdseye&#8221; line first appeared in March of 1930.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}