Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweden, King Alfonso had greatly (perhaps politely) praised a thin, hard, and nearly tasteless rye bread or biscuit, famed in Sweden as knaeckebroed. Shrewdly a Swedish baker approached the admiral of the Principe Alfonso. "Might not His Majesty like a box of knaeckebroed to take home with him?" The Admiral thought he might...
Smorbroed-the famed Scandinavian hors d'oeuvre-consists of pieces of buttered bread, on which are laid a bit of fish, a piece of cheese, a slice of egg, or almost any handy edibles, either separately or in combination...
...soon as the newspapers came out, the populace learned that Mr. Hoover had called their country "the world's bread basket." The phrase sounded new and original in Buenos Aires and it "took" tremendously. There were headlines about it, as well as about the various newborn babies who were to be christened "Herbert" or "Hoover," and leading editorials complaining politely about the exclusive U.S. tariff...
...would be difficult to trace National Biscuit Co. back to a saucer of wheat, though its' original baking companies presumably started with a loaf of bread. The company was formed in 1898, from a merger of three already large baking companies...
...counters last week announced that there were 23,000,000 milk cows in the U. S. Roy C. Potts, of the Department of Agriculture, said each U. S. inhabitant drinks an average of 1½ lbs. of milk per day; consumes another 1½ lbs. in butter, cheese and bread...