Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tomato to Wonton. In tribute to the ease of "heat and serve,'' hungry Americans last year ate more than $500 million worth of frozen prepared dishes, mostly in convenient, built-in containers that went from oven to table to trash can. The number of frozen-food packers has grown from 750 in 1949 to 1,100; the dollar value of frozen foods has jumped more than 2,700% to $2.7 billion. Almost one in every three cups of coffee is now made with instant coffee. Postwar sales of prepared baby foods have grown some 230% to a quarter...
...frozen potatoes whipped, French fried, crinkle cut, hashed, creamed, diced, stuffed baked, escalloped, puffed, pattied, rissoléd-and home fried. She can pick up scores of different frozen complete meals, buy dozens of frozen vegetables from peas (the favorite) to chives, soups that run from tomato to wonton...
...food is fine, and they specialize in take-outs. More than half their vittles, indeed, are consumed else-where. So if you know a nice dark place to take your girl to, and have any time for tomato pizza, you can have both your atmosphere and your tomato...
...study of undergraduate eating habits begun yesterday concluded that "most people eat the tomato off the lettuce and throw away the rest...
...combination drug, dime and appliance stores as well as grocery merchants. Nearly 80% of all supermarkets sell air conditioners, and 76% have music departments. But the stores are having second thoughts about their standardized and monotonous displays, efficient atmosphere. "We've probably done ourselves a disservice by packaging tomatoes," says Kroger President Joseph B. Hall. "I think a housewife would still like to be able to pinch a tomato before she buys, and maybe we should let her. It might spoil a few tomatoes, but we'd probably sell more in the long...