Friday, 3 February 2017

14 Popular Foods America Would Not Have Without Immigrants

Other than, you know, basically everything.

Kraft cheeses

Kraft cheeses

The delicious, orange cornerstone of many people's childhoods (and adulthoods) was invented by Canadian immigrant James L. Kraft. He and his brothers created a patented, spoil-resistant processed cheese in 1916 after arriving in Chicago.

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Budweiser beer

Budweiser beer

America's top selling beer brand would not have existed without German immigrant Adolphus Busch who came to St. Louis in 1857. Busch practically built Anheuser-Busch from the ground up because, you know, he knew his shit when it came to making beer.

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Häagen-Dazs ice creams

Häagen-Dazs ice creams

Sure, the name is entirely MADE UP just to sound ~fancy~ and ~foreign~, but the creators were very real Polish immigrants named Rose and Reuben Mattus. They came up with the name while just hangin' out at home in Bronx around 1960.

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Sriracha hot sauce

Sriracha hot sauce

The most popular sauce of choice in America right now (specifically the Huy Fong Foods brand – the word "Sriracha" is actually a generic name for a town in Thailand) would not exist without Vietnamese immigrant David Tran.

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