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by Janet Spencer On January 24, 1922, Christian Nelson was issued a patent for the world’s first Eskimo Pie. Come along with Tidbits as we consider the impact the Eskimo Pie has had on society! A NEW TREAT • Christian Nelson operated a candy store and ice cream shop in Iowa. One day a boy couldn’t decide whether to buy a candy bar or ice cream. That made Christian wonder why you couldn’t combine both. • Experimenting, he found that cocoa butter would glue chocolate covering to a disk of ice cream. He called it the ‘I-Scream Bar.’ • In 1922 he went to a man named Russell who managed the Graham Ice Cream Company, who paid half the cost of a patent for half the profits. Russell’s wife suggested the name Eskimo Pie for the product. Each Eskimo Pie was wrapped in tin foil. • When the product hit the market, it caused a frenzy, selling a million a day. The company became the biggest consumer of tin foil in the nation. To meet demand, they licensed dairies to make the product in exchange for a royalty, but some dairies failed to pay royalties while others infringed on the patent. (cont’d next page)
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ESKIMO PIE cont’d • In 1929 a judge ruled that it was not something that could be patented anyway. A demoralized Russell sold his part of the company and used the money to start his own candy company. Christian Nelson sold his part of the company to the tin foil firm that made the wrappers, but continued to work for them. He died a wealthy man in 1992 at the age of 99. Meanwhile… RUSSELL’S CHOCOLATE • After Christian Nelson’s partner Russell sold his share of the Eskimo Pie company for $25,000, Russell moved with his wife Clara to Denver, Colorado. • In the basement of their home, they set up a candy-making shop, determined to produce the highest-quality chocolates they could. They hand-dipped their chocolates, resisting the move to automatic machine-dipping because hand-dipping resulted in a thicker layer of chocolate. • On their first day of business in December of 1923, they sold 120 lbs (54 kg) of chocolate, netting $90 profit. A year later, they had five stores throughout Denver and employed 30 people in the basement of their home. Their candy company became particularly well-known for selling chocolates in heart-shaped boxes for Valentine’s Day. • When Russell died in 1954, Clara kept the company running. In 1960 she sold the business to her good friend Louis Ward, who supplied her with their heart-shaped boxes. He developed the business until it was the third largest American chocolate manufacturer, behind Hershey and Mars. Eventually over 60% of boxed chocolates came from this company, which still carries the name of the company founder. What’s it called? Answer at top of next page.
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Answer: Russell Stover. A NEW FOIL • Richard Samuel was the nephew of Richard Joshua. Uncle Richard Joshua was a tobacco baron, and nephew Richard Samuel worked for him. At the time, cigarettes were wrapped in foil made from a mixture of tin and lead. As the demand for cigarettes increased, so did demand for tin foil, and it was constantly in short supply. • In 1919 nephew Richard Samuel borrowed $100,000 from his uncle, then left his uncle’s tobacco firm in order to start up a tin foil company. Other tin foil firms tried to run him out of business by lowering their prices, but then the price of aluminum dropped, and Richard Samuel discovered that making foil from aluminum was far less expensive – and far more sensible – than making it out of tin and lead. • Aluminum foil was lighter and thinner than tin foil so more of it could be rolled from a single pound of metal; it was non-corrosive; and it was shinier. He invented a way to print on it, so he could make custom wrappers for specific foods. Demand for his foil skyrocketed with the invention of the Eskimo Pie because each one was wrapped in foil. • In 1924 Richard Samuel’s firm bought out the Eskimo Pie company, which was its single biggest customer. The company expanded to produce aluminum siding, aluminum cans, aluminum bumpers, and more. Eventually the firm became the world’s third largest aluminum and packaging company. It’s best known for aluminum foil, which carries the last name shared by Uncle Richard Joshua and nephew Richard Samuel. What was their last name? Answer: Reynolds, as in Reynolds Wrap, and R.J. Reynolds tobacco. ICE CREAM ON A STICK • Harry Burt owned a candy store and ice cream shop in Ohio. Christian Nelson had recently invented the Eskimo Pie, but Harry claimed to have invented the chocolate-covered ice cream bar before Nelson invented the Eskimo Pie. • Harry’s invention had one critical difference, however. After he’d given an experimental sample to his grown daughter to eat, he asked her opinion. She said she liked it, but it was too messy and left her fingers sticky. Because he manufactured lollipops, he inserted a stick to make it easier to eat. • He designed machinery to mass-produce the product, and named his company after his belief that anyone eating it would be in a good mood. Then he designed a unique way to sell his product. Instead of selling it to stores, he outfitted the world’s first ice cream trucks and hired drivers to drive slowly up and down suburban streets, ringing the bell on the truck and selling his ice cream bars directly to children. • In 1929 the company got a huge boost in Chicago when mobsters demanded $5,000 for “protection” – or else. The company refused the ultimatum, and doubled the insurance on the trucks. The next week eight trucks were blown up. The insurance payoff was handsome and the free national publicity put the company on the map. • At its peak in the 1950s, the company had 2,000 ice cream trucks on the road. Now owned by Breyers, the trucks have been retired but the company still produces a wide variety of ice cream novelties. What was the ice cream company called? (Answer below) Answer: Good Humor.
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THE ICE CREAM SCOOP • Alfred Cralle was born in Virginia in 1866, just after the Civil War ended. He was black, so his options were limited but he never let that stop him. • He learned carpentry from his father, attended local schools, and became interested in mechanics. Because he excelled at school, his father sent him to Washington, D.C. to attend Wayland Seminary. This was one of several schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to educate African-Americans after the Civil War. • Later he settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He got a job working as a porter in the Markell Brothers drug store and St. Charles Hotel. While working at the drug store, he noticed how popular ice cream had become, and he also noticed how difficult it was to serve. It consistently stuck to the spoon or ladle that was being used to scoop it, and required either two hands or two people to get it into the dish. He was determined to solve the problem. • Being mechanically inclined, he set to work on the problem. The first prototype he showed to the Markell Brothers was a simple stick with a coneshaped object mounted on the end. The Markell Brothers didn’t think it would work, until Cralle took a container of ice cream and demonstrated it for them, easily plopping a perfectly-shaped mound of ice cream into a dish. • On February 2, 1897, Cralle was granted a patent for what he called an “ice cream mold and disher” now known as the ice cream scoop. It was designed to keep ice cream as well as other foods from sticking to the utensil, and it was easy to operate with one hand. • Cralle’s design was strong, durable, effective, and inexpensive. It could be constructed in a variety of shapes depending on whether a cone or a mound was desired. It could be constructed out of a variety of materials. There were no delicate parts that could malfunction. This simple device allowed ice cream to be served faster, with less effort and more hygienically. • Cralle never received much in the way of financial success from his invention, nor did he receive any wide-spread acclaim. However, when the Afro-American Financial, Accumulating, Merchandise and Business Association was organized in Pittsburgh, he was named Assistant Manager. • Cralle was 30 years old when he was granted his patent, married with two daughters and a son. His wife and one daughter died in 1918, possibly due to the flu epidemic. His son died of disease in 1918, and Cralle himself was killed in an automobile accident in 1920. But his daughter Anna lived to the age of 98 and died in 2009. By then her father’s invention had become standard issue in households around the world. • Next time you bend your spoon in half for lack of an ice cream scoop, think of Alfred Cralle, and say a word of thanks. • When choosing an ice cream scoop, pick one with a good grip on the handle so it won’t slip if your hands are wet. Be sure it has sharp edges so it will cut easily into the ice cream. Get one with a big wide scoop to provide maximum ice cream retrieval. Dunk the scoop in hot water for a few minutes to facilitate scooping. Drag the scoop in an S-shape across the surface of the ice cream. If you are scooping multiple dishes, keep the hot water handy and dip the scoop in between.
DEAR GERRY: There are recipe books available that will enable you to make food and treats for your dogs at home. I can’t say that the food you make for your dogs will cost less than store-bought food. But you’ll know exactly what your dogs are eating, because you selected and prepared the ingredients yourself. Prepping food and treats for your dog from a recipe book developed just for dogs can be very helpful for owners who aren’t sure what dogs can and can’t safely eat. For example, feeding a dog table scraps can be problematic if the food is higher in fat than they’re used to, or contains large amounts of onion or garlic, which can cause serious problems for a dog. There are several books to choose from these days, which is a vast improvement over several years ago. A quick search on Amazon will bring up hundreds of results. It’s good to see that one of the first dog-treat books to cross my desk, the “You Bake ‘Em Dog Biscuits Cookbook” by Janine Adams, still ranks high on the list. If the time involved in preparing your dogs’ food becomes daunting, there are increasingly other sources for pet food and treat cropping up. In particular, organic dog treats can be found at health-food stores, in farmers’ markets, at veterinarians’ offices or can be ordered online. Send your questions or tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
FRANCHISE STORIES: QUIZ #1 • Roy Allen had a habit of buying run-down restaurants, rehabilitating them, and selling them at a profit. In 1919 he met a pharmacist who had a great recipe for a home-brewed root beer. Roy bought the recipe from him and opened a root beer stand in Lodi, California. • Sales were good, so he opened a second stand in Sacramento, and hired Frank Wright to help him manage it. Frank was a great employee, and in 1922 he and Roy became partners, naming the business for their initials. Roy bought a carnival wagon previously used to sell popcorn, and turned it into a driveup root beer stand, which gave birth to the idea of a drive-up restaurant. • The idea was a hit. Roy Allen bought out Frank Wright in 1924, but retained the company’s name. He weathered the Great Depression by adding hot dogs and hamburgers. By the end of the Depression, he had 200 franchises, and by the time he sold out due to failing health there were about 450. In the 1960s there were more than 2,000 stores operating nationwide. Today the company is the largest vendor of root beer in the nation, selling a soft drink that has changed little since it was first invented. What’s the name of the company? (Answer at top of last page) FRANCHISE STORIES: QUIZ #2 • John McCullough served ice cream from his store in Illinois in 1927. Making large amounts of ice cream involved mixing butterfat with sweeteners and stabilizers, then whipping in air and flavoring, then freezing it until it reached 23°F (-5C). At this temperature the ice cream was soft enough to flow through a spigot into tubs. The tubs were frozen to -10°F (-23C) which made them easy to ship and store.
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FRANCHISE STORIES: #2 (cont’d) • John knew ice cream that came out of the spigot at 23°F tasted better than the stuff sold to the customer at -10°. Ice cream numbs the taste buds at about 0°F (-17C), which interferes with the sense of taste. • What the world really needed, he decided, was ice cream that could be served at 18°F (-8C). He experimented, finding that less butterfat made a softer ice cream that could be handled easily at that temperature, while still retaining its shape. By 1938 he had the recipe down pat. • He sold his first franchise in 1940. Today there are about 5,700 outlets selling this soft-serve ice cream. What’s the franchise called? (Answer at bottom of page) FRANCHISE STORIES: #3 • Reuben Mattus sold lemon-ice from a horse-drawn wagon in New York City in the 1920s. He branched out into selling ice cream just when modern refrigeration methods made long-term storage of ice cream at home possible. In 1959 Reuben decided to found a new ice cream company that would be dedicated to providing the best possible ice cream made from the highest quality ingredients: more butterfat, less air. He needed a name for the product. He had always been fond of Denmark, so he decided a Danish name would be best. The name he chose means nothing in the Danish language, but Rueben wanted people to look at the name and think, ‘Is this imported?’ A map of Scandinavia appeared on the label for good measure. The business grew steadily and in 1983 he sold out to Pillsbury for $70 million. Today this luxury ice cream is sold all over the world. Name it. Answer #2: Dairy Queen. Answer #3: Häagen-Dazs.
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INCLUDES: Oil (up to 5qts), Lube, Filter, Courtesy Inspection & Top Off Fluids where necessary
10% off
Any recommended maintenance at the time of service. Good only at Fremont Motor Ford Sheridan. Cannot be used with any other special or coupons. Shop supplies and tax extra. Oil change excludes diesel engines. Expires Jan. 30, 2015.
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1658 Coffeen Avenue Sheridan, WY Hours: Monday - Friday: 8AM - 5PM FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE WE ARE ALSO OPEN ON
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