Time-travel with us to last century, when Coke still had cocaine in it and ladies weren't allowed to lunch alone!
1912 was a good year for things that are bad for you.
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This was the year Richard Hellmann, a German deli owner, started mass marketing his wife’s mayonnaise. It was also the year Life Savers and the Whitman's chocolate sampler were introduced.
Most important new junk food: The “Trio," three different kinds of cookies from the National Biscuit Company, since renamed Nabisco. Two Trio members — the Mother Goose biscuit and the Veronese biscuit — have since gone to cookie heaven. But then there was...the Oreo. They were sold by weight and cost 30 cents (!) a pound.
You could finally wander the aisles of the grocery store yourself, searching unsuccessfully for beans.
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At least in California. The first self-serve grocery stores opened up on the West coast that year, though they were far from widespread. Before that, if you were rich, you sent your servant with a list and had the shopkeeper deliver the goods to your mansion. If you were poor you went yourself and lugged the groceries back to your tenement.