Posted on 03/23/2021 6:14:28 AM PDT by mylife
Here’s a delicious Dayton connection: the Cheez-It was born here 100 years ago.
The cracker — square in shape and orange in color — was invented by the Green & Green Company in 1921, but its origin goes back even further.
In 1847 Dr. William Wolf of Dayton determined his patients with dietary restrictions needed a different kind of food, Steve Lucht, a curator at Dayton History, said.
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According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the first Cheez-It Cheese Crackers were sold by The Green & Green Company of Dayton in May 1921. The company, which had started business in 1896, was better known for their Edgemont crackers and for its nutty-flavored Dayton cracker, which was stamped with the name Dayton . To fill the need, Dr. Wolf created his own food, a hard butter cracker that became known as the Dayton Cracker.
Dr. Wolf’s cracker became so popular it kicked off the growth of the cracker-baking industry in the city, according to Dayton History’s research.
“Making crackers was always a thing people did,” Lucht said. “As long as you keep them nice and sealed, they stayed fresh for a long time.”
Weston Green and his father, John, purchased Dr. Wolf’s company, The Wolf Cracker Bakery, and renamed it Green & Green. The company would become known for making hardtack, a cracker-like bread, for American military during WW I.
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I just happen to have a box Cheez-It.
Uncertain about the Bloody Mary’s; but broken up or whole, damn tasty in Cream of Tomato Soup! or Cream of Potato Soup-
not Vichyssoise, but HOT Potato Soup.
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