Canned fruit cocktail — it’s just a bunch of mushy, syrupy fruit with a few kid-friendly cherries thrown in, right? Not so fast. Fruit cocktail is actually a triumph of turn-of-the-century marketing and food technology — a perfectly packaged paean to the industrialization of our country’s food system. Here’s how it went from cookbook to can.
First There Was Fruit Salad
Fruit salad as we know it didn’t hit American tables until the mid-19th century; ambrosia, that fluffy…
Who Invented Canned Fruit Cocktail? — Food History
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