Food timeline 1872-1939

1872, Blackjack chewing gum
1876, Premium soda crackers
(later Saltines)
1881, Pillsbury flour
1886, Coca-Cola
1887, Ball-Mason jars
1888, Log Cabin syrup
1889, Aunt Jemima pancake mix
1889, Calumet Baking Powder
1889, McCormick Spices
1889, Pabst Brewing Company
1890, Knox gelatine
1890, Libby introduces keys
to canned meat
1890, Lipton tea
1891, Del Monte
1891, Fig Newton
1891, Quaker Oats Company
1893, Cream of Wheat
1893, Good & Plenty
1893, Juicy Fruit gum
1894, chili powder
1895, shredded coconut
1895, Triscuits
1896, Cracker Jack
1896, Michelob beer
1896, S&W canned foods
1896, Tootsie Roll
1897, Campbell's condensed soup
1897, Campbell's tomato soup
1897, Grape Nuts
1897, Jell-O
1898, Nabisco graham crackers
1898, shredded wheat cereal
1899, Wesson oil

1900, Chiclets gum
1900, cotton candy
1900, Hershey's chocolate bar
1901, instant coffee
1902, Barnum's Animal Crackers
1902, Karo corn syrup
1902, Pepsi
1903, Best Foods
1903, canned tuna
1903, Sanka
1903, Sunshine Biscuit Company
1904, banana split
1904, Campbell's Kids introduced
1904, Campbell's Pork and Beans
1904, Canada Dry ginger ale
1904, Dr. Pepper
1904, peanut butter
1904, popcorn
1905, Epsicle (later Popsicle)
1905, Holly Sugar
1905, Royal Crown cola
1906, A-1 Sauce
1906, bouillon cube
1906, Kellogg's Corn Flakes
1907, Hershey's kiss
1908, Dixie cup
1908, electric toaster
1908, monosodium glutamate isolated
1909, Lipton tea
1909, Melitta drip coffeemaker
1909, puffed wheat and rice
(Quaker)
1909, Tillamook cheese

1910, tea bag
1911, Crisco
1911, Mazola corn oil
1912, Cracker Jack puts in a prize
1912, hamburger buns
1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise
1912, Life Savers
1912, Lorna Doone cookies
1912, Morton table salt
1912, Ocean Spray cranberry sauce
1912, Vitamins
1912, Whitman's Sampler
1913, Campbell's cream of celery
1913, Oreo cookie
1913, Peppermint Life Savers
1914, Doublemint gum
1914, fruit cocktail
1914, Morton Salt girl
1915, processed cheese
1915, Pyrex bakeware
1916, fortune cookie
1916, Kellogg's All-Bran cereal
1916, Mr. Peanut
1916, Orange Crush
1917, Clark Bar
1917, Moon Pie
1918, Campbell's vegetable beef
1918, Contadina tomato sauce
1918, French dip sandwich
1918, Welch's first jam, Grapelade
1919, Fridgidaire
1919, Konabar, Peter Paul
1919, Malt-O-Meal
1919, Sunkist oranges

1920, Baby Ruth
1920, boysenberry
1920, Good Humor bar
1920, La Choy Food Products
1920, Wonder Bread
1921, Betty Crocker
1921, Eskimo Pie
1921, Hershey kisses get
blue & white streamer
1921, hybrid corn
1921, iodized salt
1921, Land O' Lakes butter
1921, Mounds bar
1921, Oh Henry!
1921, Sioux Bee Honey
1921, White Castle hamburger chain
1921, Wonderbread
1921, Wrigley's gum
1922, A&W Root Beer
1922, Charleston Chew candy
1922, Almond Rocha
1923, Milky Way bar
1923, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
1923, Welch's grape jelly
1924, Bit-O-Honey candy
1924, Caesar salad
1924, Dum Dum sucker
1924, fruit-flavored Life Savers
1924, packaged sliced bacon
(Oscar Mayer)
1924, Wheaties
1925, Green Giant canned peas
1925, Mr. Goodbar
1925, Wesson oil
1926, Cobb Salad
1926, Hormel canned ham
1926, Milk Duds
1926, Orange Julius
1927, Gerber baby food
1927, homogenized milk
1927, Kool-Aid
1927, Lenders bagels
1927, Mike & Ike
1927, Wonder Bread
1927, Welch-ade
1928, broccoli introduced to U.S.
1928, Butterfinger
1928, Peter Pan peanut butter
1928, Nabisco shredded wheat
1928, Progresso Foods
1928, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
1928, Rice Krispies
1928, Velveeta cheese
1929, Colombo yogurt
1929, Karmelkorn
1929, Klondike bar
1929, Libby canned pumpkin
1929, Lithiated Lemon (later 7-Up)
1929, Niblets corn
1929, Oscar Mayer weiner
1929, Po' Boy sandwich
1929, Popeye the Sailor
1929, Ruby grapefruit

1930, Birds Eye Frosted Foods
1930, Bisquick
1930, Jiffy Biscuit Mix
1930, Lime Jell-O
1930, Mott's Apple Sauce
1930, Snickers
1930, Toll House cookies
1930, Twinkies
1930, sliced Wonder Bread
1931, Alka-Seltzer
1931, Beech-Nut baby food
1931, Cryst-O-Mint Life Savers
1931, dehydrated onion
1931, The Joy of Cooking,
Irma S. Rombauer
1931, Reed's Butterscotch candy
1931, Tootsie Pop
1932, 3 Musketeers bar
1932, bagel
1932, corn chips
1932, Heath bar
1932, Jell-O chocolate pudding
1932, Skippy peanut butter
1933, Budweiser Clydesdales
1933, canned pineapple juice
1933, Lithiated Lemon renamed
7-Up
1933, Prohibition ends
1933, Sunsweet prune juice
1933, V8 Juice
1933, Waldorf salad
1934, Campbell's chicken noodle
1934, Campbell's cream of mushroom

1934, Ritz crackers
1934, Sugar Daddy
1935, 5 flavors Life Savers
1935, Adolph's Meat Tenderizer
1935, Friendly Ice Cream restaurant
1935, Realemon lemon juice
1935, Royal Crown cola
1935, Sugar Babies
1936, Dom Pérignon champagne
1936, Elsie the Cow (Borden)
1936, 5th Avenue bar
1936, Girl Scout cookies
1936, Mars Bar
1936, Waring blender
1937, A & P Supermarket
1937, Good 'n Plenty
1937, Kit Kat bar
1937, Kix cereal
1937, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner

1937, Pepperidge Farm Bread
1937, Ragu Spaghetti Sauce
1937, Rolo candy
1937, shopping cart
1937, Smarties
1937, Spam
1938, Bumble Bee tuna
1938, Hershey Krackel bar
1938, Lawry's Seasoned Salt
1938, Mott's apple juice
1938, Nescafé, first instant coffee
1938, Nestlé Crunch bar
1938, Teflon
1939, food stamps
1939, Lay's potato chips
1939, Nestlé chocolate chip
1939, pressure cooker
1939, Sara Lee cheese cake