RadishRose
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Ever met the real Chef Boyardee?
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StarSong
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The original restaurant owner-chef (named Boiardi) was reportedly an excellent cook. I bet his original recipes bore little resemblance to the canned gunk on the grocery store shelves.
Aunt Bea
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The house that canned ravioli built.
Judycat
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When I was a kid I used to love his canned meat ravioli. It was one of the few things I would eat without a fuss back then.
Judycat
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Plus. Chef Boiardi looked a lot like my dad.
Omaha, Nebraska: Bronze Statue of Chef Boyardee
Life-size bronze of Chef Boyardee, hero of Beefaroni packaging, stands at ground level for pose-with-the-Chef shots.
Hector Boiardi
"The task of bringing Chef Boyardee to life fell to Omaha sculptor John Lajba. Chef Boyardee isn't a cartoon or a corporate creation, Lajba said. “He was a human being.” Parents and grandparents might remember when the man himself appeared in most of the brand's television commercials. Hector Boiardi — he went by “Boy-ar-dee” because it was easier for Americans to pronounce — was a hotel chef and restaurateur before he opened a packaged Italian foods company in the 1920s. Boiardi died in 1985 at 87. ConAgra Foods acquired the company in 2000. Lajba used many photos of Boiardi for reference. “He was a man who had a lot of class and a lot of charm.”
Life-size bronze of Chef Boyardee, hero of Beefaroni packaging, stands at ground level for pose-with-the-Chef shots.
Hector Boiardi
"The task of bringing Chef Boyardee to life fell to Omaha sculptor John Lajba. Chef Boyardee isn't a cartoon or a corporate creation, Lajba said. “He was a human being.” Parents and grandparents might remember when the man himself appeared in most of the brand's television commercials. Hector Boiardi — he went by “Boy-ar-dee” because it was easier for Americans to pronounce — was a hotel chef and restaurateur before he opened a packaged Italian foods company in the 1920s. Boiardi died in 1985 at 87. ConAgra Foods acquired the company in 2000. Lajba used many photos of Boiardi for reference. “He was a man who had a lot of class and a lot of charm.”
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"Il Giardino d’Italia, “The Garden of Italy” in English, soon became one of Cleveland’s top eateries with customers regularly lining up to wait for tables and dine on Boiardi’s signature cooked-to-order spaghetti with its savoury sauce and tangy cheese. The dish was so popular that patrons wanted to make it for themselves at home, so Boiardi began to assemble take-out meal kits that included dried pasta, cheese and cleaned milk bottles filled with marinara sauce along with instructions on how to cook, heat and assemble the meal."
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