Word: frood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restaurant in London's Olympia exhibition hall last week, British government officials sat down to a meal of "Frood," a new British product hailed as a likely dollar-getter in the export trade. But Frood turned out to be nothing more than precooked frozen food. With the U.S. frozen-food market already oversold, it looked as if Britons could not have picked a worse time to try to invade it. The only thing to give U.S. businessmen pause was that Frood's maker, J. Lyons & Co., Ltd., was not likely to back a bad bet. By consistently backing...
...Chicken Supreme & Mousse. No one man now dominates the empire. Under Chairman Harry Salmon, 65, son of the original Barnett, the 18 directors are each responsible for one part of the business. Kitchens and cooking, for example, are in charge of 41-year-old Leonard Gluckstein. He accidentally developed Frood in 1941 when he tried to can a chicken chasseur and, failing, put it in a refrigerator. When he tasted it weeks later, he knew he had something. He quietly tested Frood in Lyons restaurants and U.S. Army messhalls during...
...business that the Americans haven't got." At least he had variety, 189 items from tomato soup to chicken supreme and mousse. And with new tea and coffee plants opening up in South Africa and Canada, Lyons could well be confident-on the strength of food, if not Frood-of becoming greater than ever...
...THORNDYKE'S CRIME FILE-R. Austin Freeman - Dodd, Mead ($2 50) Reprints of The Eye of Osiris, The Mystery of Angelina Frood, Mr. Pottermack's Oversight, full-length and always good. Also included is an excellent essay on the art of the detective story...