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TIL that California company, Postum Foods, bought East-Coast brand, Hellman’s Mayonnaise, in 1927. As a result of the merger, to present day, both brands were preserved in their respective territories, with Hellman’s being sold East of the Rockies and Postum (now Best Foods) sold in the West.
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TIL a California woman filed a class-action lawsuit against Ferrero (maker of Nutella) after she was shocked to discover it wasn’t healthy and that the chocolate spread she was feeding her 4 year-old daughter was full of sugar and fat. Ferrero lost and paid $3M over false nutritional claims
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TIL that adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in 1920. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger while working as a fry cook at his father’s Pasadena, California sandwich shop and “experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.
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TIL Sublime’s debut album “40oz. to Freedom” was recorded in secrecy at the studios in California State University. The lead singer, Bradley Nowell, recalled how they would sneak in after closing time, stay there till 5:00 AM, hide from security, and managed to get $30k of studio time for free.
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