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In recent years, the Milka cow has become so interwoven into the popular culture that when German school children are asked to draw a farm scene, they often color the cows lilac. More>>

Mr. Peanut was the brainchild of a 14-year-old boy who entered a Planters-sponsored trademark contest in 1916. More>>

Oscar Mayer hires recent college graduates to hold the coveted position of "Hotdogger" and travel the country driving the Wienermobile and promoting Oscar Mayer products. More>>

Kool-Aid Man, continually ranked by kids as one of the most-loved brand mascots, has been honored with a footprint ceremony at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. More>>

www.comidakraft.com was one of the first-ever bilingual food Web sites. More>>

In 1976, Maxwell House introduced the first coffee specially ground, blended and roasted for use in automatic drip coffee makers. More>>

Made of wheat and malted barley, Grape-Nuts was so named because its inventor, Charles William Post, said that grape sugar was formed during the baking process and described the cereal as having a nutty flavor. More>>

Jacobs Kaffee now enjoys a 30 percent share of the European coffee market and the Jacobs brand is the largest-selling dry grocery product in Germany. More>>

Named by merging the family name, Tobler, with Italian specialty nougat candy Torrone, Toblerone was introduced to the world in 1908, and a year later became the first patented milk chocolate candy that contained a unique combination of almonds and honey. More>>

Oreo cookies were among the first "interactive" foods - offering people myriad ways to enjoy them, including dunking them in milk, twisting the cookies apart. More>>

The innovation of Minute Rice cut rice cooking time from one hour to less than 10 minutes, and single-handedly spawned the quick-cooking rice market segment. More>>

Within one year of its national introduction in 1950, Kraft Deluxe process cheese slices became the most successful product introduction in the company's then nearly 50-year history. More>>

By soaking coffee beans in brine, Dr. Ludwig Roselius developed a technique that removed 97 percent of the caffeine from coffee without removing the flavor. More>>

J. L. Kraft revolutionized the production of cheese when he discovered that if he heated and continuously stirred cheese, then placed it in a sterile container, when the cheese cooled, it would regain its solid state. More>>

Oscar Mayer was among the first meat packers to put its name on meat products, a marketing tool that helped differentiate its products from its competitors. More>>

National Biscuit Company (later renamed Nabisco, Inc.) took a major step forward in 1898 by packaging Uneeda biscuits in a revolutionary, patented "in-er-seal" package, an ingenious system of inter-folded layers of wax paper and cardboard. More>>

Each year, Nabisco uses nearly 3,000 miles of string to harness the Barnum's Animals crackers packages. More>>

To differentiate Kraft cheese spreads from the competition in the early 1930s, Kraft sold its spreads in brightly decorated five-ounce glass jars called Swankyswigs that could be reused as drinking glasses. More>>

Oscar Mayer established a research division in 1941, solely dedicated to developing new and improved packaging concepts, including the "slice pak," the first vacuum-package designed for sliced cold cuts, and the "chub" package, vacuum-sealed tubes containing liver sausage, pork sausage and sandwich spreads. More>>

In 2001, Maxwell House introduced a new "EZ Open lid," which completely eliminated the need for a can opener on its coffee cans. More>>