Their attempts proved pungent to the point of being nearly inedible, and the sauce was abandoned in their shop basement until they stumbled across it a few years later.
HJ Heinz Company, founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is best known for baked beans and tomato ketchup, but founder Henry Heinz started his condiment and canned-food empire by making horseradish in 1869.
When John and Will Kellogg launched Corn Flakes in 1895, the golden, crispy flakes were originally intended to be bland and encourage Americans to live a pure life.
Today it’s one of the world’s leading convenient foods brands, known for instant noodles, bouillon cubes, sauces, stocks and seasonings.
The Dr. Oetker logo might be most familiar to some emblazoned on a pizza box, but the brand began with baking powder.
Carnation’s Condensed Milk – made with milk that has been evaporated to thicken it, then sweetened – has always proved handy in the kitchen, as this 1952 advert demonstrates.
A familiar sight in cupboards, on restaurant tables and as a bloody mary ingredient, Tabasco has been spicing up mealtimes since 1868.
This finely drawn advert was originally published in 1886 yet cocoa for breakfast still sounds pretty good to us.
We have to assume that the rosy cheeks of the (slightly sinister) figure in this 1930s ad are a result of the warming bowls of Knorr soup he’s inhaling.