National Junk Food Day 🍪🍩🍫

[GAlady]

 

[Meanderer]

..... and I thought it was EVERY day.

 

[Meanderer]

Exactly where did junk food come from in the first place?

"Unsurprisingly, its origins trace themselves back to our own country, where two brothers selling a delicious concoction of popcorn, peanuts, and molasses at the Chicago World Fair might well have invented the genre".

Cracker Jack: 1893

"It all began in 1893, when two vendors – brothers Frederick and Louis Rueckheim – at the World’s Fair in Chicago made a concoction of popcorn, peanuts, and molasses that was wildly popular. A few years later, in 1896, their sweet invention went on to become sold commercially as Cracker Jack. Twenty years after it was created, Cracker Jack became the best–selling sweet in the world".

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[Aunt Bea]

 

[debodun]

I celebrated by having wheat thin crackers with peanut butter and tater tots for lunch.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[PamfromTx]

 

[horseless carriage]

And there was me thinking that Junk food was: "Sweet & Sour,
served on board ship on the river Yangtze.