Food Timeline>Real people or brand names? Many of the foods we enjoy today are named for people. Some of these folks are real (usually a company's founder or one of his family members); others are clever marketing inventions. Which is which? Click on the product name to find out!

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Ann Page Aunt Jemima Aunt Nellie Baby Ruth Bazooka Joe Ben & Jerry Betty Crocker Cap'n Crunch Celeste Charlie the Tuna Chef Boyardee Clarence Birdseye Clark Colonel Sanders Count Chocula Cracker Jack

Dairy Queen Dinty Moore Dr. Pepper Doublemint Twins Duncan Hines Elsie the Cow Ethel M Famous Amos Fannie Farmer Francesco Rinaldi Gerber Baby Granny Smith Howard Johnson Hungry Jack Jane Parker Jimmy Dean Johnny Appleseed

Juan Valdez King Kullen Libby Little Caesar Little Debbie Lorna Doone Louis Kemp Marie Callender Marky Mapo Mary Jane McDonalds Mike & Ike Miss Chiquita Mr. Coffee Mr. Peanut Mr. Potato Head Mrs. Butterworth Mrs. Cubbison Mrs. Dash

Mrs. Fields Mrs. Paul Mrs. Smith Monterey Jack Morton's salt girl Orange Julius Orville Redenbacher Oscar Mayer Potato Pete Ronald McDonald Ronzoni Russell Stover Sally Lunn Sara Lee Sylvia Tootsie Tropic-Ana

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