Everybody eats, everybody loves it.

It's such an important part of who we are as a culture.

For more than a century, American food has been dominated by some iconic brands.

For many years in this country, if you wanted something cold to drink, you asked for a

coke.

If you want ketchup, you wanted high-ends ketchup.

It didn't matter that there were tons of other brands out there.

When people think of American chocolate, they think of her.

When people think of American burgers and fries, they're going to think of McDonald's.

Coca-Cola, Heinz, Hershey, McDonald's, Kellogg's.

You know the names, the logos, and the jingles.

I remember my father-meer as to be singing KE-Double L, O-Double G Kellogg's Best To You.

But do you know the stories behind them?

The federal government claimed with some justification that Coca-Cola was mislabeled because, ironically,

it no longer had cocaine in it.

So you can't call it Coca-Cola.

Cornflakes was an accident.

And you stop and you think, what if they didn't leave?

What if they just disposed of?

What had gotten moldy?

And behind the remarkable individuals who brought them to life.

There were lots of stories about Ray Crock walking into a franchisey of the location, looking

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