Chapter 45: Birds Eye Frozen Fish, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7


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Chapter 45: Birds Eye Frozen Fish


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1. Clarence Birdseye went fur trapping to Labrador in northeast Canada.
2. The Inuit fishermen taught Birdseye to ice-fish.
3. Birdseye moved back to America in 1917.
4. Birdseye developed his “quick freezing” method in 1924.
5. Birdseye’s company was called General Seafood Corporation.
6. Birdseye started his company in 1925.
7. Birdseye opened his company in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
8. Marjorie Merriweather Post tried Birdseye’s frozen fish in 1929.
9. Birdseye sold his company and patent to Postum Cereal Company.
10. Birdseye sold his company for $22 million.
11. The General Seafood Corporation changed its name to General Food Company.
12. “Fish Sticks” are known in Britain as “fish finger.”