The Record Revisited
Welcome to The Record Revisited, a little trail off the main timeline.
While researching history for Chronoodle, I uncover things that sometimes don't quite line up.
It turns out, history isn’t always written by the first, but often the loudest. Or the best-funded. Or the one with a halfway decent PR team.
This section is for the stuff that made me stop and go, “Hold on a sec...” Sometimes it’s a tiny correction. Sometimes it’s a big gotcha. And sometimes it’s just a “wait, what?!” moment.
Let's give these quieter truths a chance to be heard. The Record Revisited is dedicated to uncovering historical corrections.
Spray Cheese Origins: Betty Lou... Who?
Most credit Nabisco for inventing spray cheese in 1965. But Betty Lou Foods likely beat them to it, with ads and newspaper mentions from 1963. Turns out, the cheese wars of the spray variety were already underway before Easy Cheese hit shelves.
Nathan's Hot Dog Contest: A Made-Up Legend
The hot dog contest may be iconic, but its origin story? Cooked up in a PR office. 🌭📜
