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20th century
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The invention of the modern hamburger.
A hamburger, or simply a burger, is a dish consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll. The patties are often served with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, bacon or chilis with condiments such as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, relish or a "special sauce", often a variation of Thousand Island dressing and are frequently placed on sesame seed buns. -
Otto Rohwedder invents the bread-slicing machine.
Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. -
The first domesticated blueberries reach the market.
Blueberry is a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plants with blue or purple berries. -
The McDonald's brothers opened their first McDonald's restaurant on May 15 in San Bernardino, California
McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States -
The invention of the potato water gun knife facilitates the mass production of French fries by fast food restaurants
In the US it started in 1950 A grower called F. Gilbert 'Gib' Lamb opens a food processing company called Lamb Weston, in Weston, Oregon (US). He invents the water gun knife. This revolutionary invention is the world's first cutting machine designed to cut fries under high water pressure. -
Canada lifts the ban on margarine.
is a spread used for flavoring, baking, and cooking. It is most often used as a substitute for butter. -
The first conveyor belt sushi restaurant, Mawaru Genroku Sushi, opens in Higashiosaka.
Plates serving the sushi are placed on a rotating conveyor belt that winds through the restaurant and moves past every table, counter and seat. -
The iconic Australian biscuit Tim Tam enters the market.
Tim Tam is a brand of chocolate biscuit introduced by the Australian biscuit company Arnott's in 1964. It consists of two malted biscuits separated by a light hard chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate. -
Stamen Grigorov discovered Lactobacillus bulgaricus, the lactic acid-producing bacteria, which is the true cause for the existence of natural yogurt
is the main bacterium used for the production of yogurt. It also plays a crucial role in the ripening of some cheeses,as well as in other processes involving naturally fermented products.