As an American of Italian ancestry, I guess I should be offended by Chef Boy-Ar-Dee ravoli in a tin can.
I want compensation! Fifty dollars bills and Benjamins will do.
You do know, don’t you, that Chef Boy Ar Dee was an actual person of Italian birth as well as an accomplished chef who worked at the Plaza Hotel in NYC and the Hotel Winton in Cleveland as well as catering the wedding of President Woodrow Wilson to his second wife.
Ettore “Hector” Boiardi was born in Italy and came to the US at age 16 to work at the Plaza where his brother was Head Waiter. Within a year Boiardi was Head Chef. No small feat.
He opened his own restaurant, Il Giardino d’ Italia (“The Garden of Italy”) in Cleveland in 1924. His customers loved his food so much he started selling take home kits with pasta, sauce, olive oil, cheese and instructions.
Two of his regular customers were grocers who convinced him to go into the prepared meal business full time.
Boiardi realized that salesmen and customers had problems pronouncing his name so he changed the labels to the phonetic Boy-Ar-Dee.
That guy did more to spread Italian food across the country than anyone else.
Oh, I spent your compensation and reparations on plenty of the good Chef’s food back in the day. ;-)