100 things younger than Roscoe Bartlett
What would Market Street be without a single bar? Hard to imagine, isn't it? But that is what Frederick was like when Roscoe Bartlett was born. In fact, the whole country was like that, because Roscoe was born during Prohibition. In 1920, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was passed, and it prohibited the sale of alcohol for consumption. Of course, that didn't stop organized crime from selling the stuff, and eventually cooler heads prevailed. In 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment.
Clarence Birdseye first invented a way of flash freezing food that didn't turn it into mush. In 1927, he applied his method to meats, poultry, fruit and, of course, vegetables. Two years later he sold his patents to a company that eventually became General Foods. Bird Eye Foods is now an independent company headquartered in Rochester, NY. Birdseye himself died of a heart attack 52 years ago.
The phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread" was actually part of an advertising campaign for Wonder Bread, the first mass-marketed sliced bread in 1930. That was not, however, the first sliced bread. The first company to sell sliced bread was the Chillicothe Baking Company who sold their first sliced loaves in Missouri in 1928. Little Roscoe Bartlett was a toddler at the time.Buy Me a Cup o' Coffee
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