Questions to study

Two-thirds of the food served to the soldiers in the Second World War was canned food. And then they came home and dispersed and the result was that they had a real _____________________ in canned food. In the postwar era, food in a can became _______________________________________, and propelled the industry forward.

Confidence; Staple in every home

Containers are designed to hold up to 20 tons of goods. And they can be carried by three different modes of transportation. Without this ___________________ system capability, international commerce as we know it would be almost impossible.

Intermodal

No matter where corn grow, adaptation, versaltitly have made it for some, the 21st centurys gold that partly because ___________. Theres a huge number of uses. and what a lot of people dont understand is in terns of starch, theres more starch used in consumer goods, what we call__________, than there is in food

Its not just for food ; Bio based products

The production process from planting a seed of corn to making PLA or bio plastic, is a much ____________ than oil-based plastics

Smaller environmental footprint

We think of plastic as a petroleum-based product, but corn will do the job, too. [i.e. you can make plastic products out of corn] True or False?

True

[True or False] Bioplastic cost the same to produce as petroleum based plastics, but bioplastics decompose much faster

True

In 1902, Orator Woodward [the owner of Jell-O] rolled out the first national _____________ __________________________.

ad campaign

It [canned food] became something that allowed civilization to do things other than forage for food. So, the preservation of food in a safe manner allowed them to begin to do other things, and that was really the beginning of industrialization. In the decades that followed, _____________________________ caused the tin can to flourish.

automation

It was, in fact, the invention of what advertisers call _____________________, getting customers to connect a product with quality or reassurance so they'll keep buying.

branding

The bowl of corn flakes utterly changed the American marketplace, and all because Americans just wanted to ______________________________.

eat right

By 1920, __________________________________ was the biggest business in America; bigger than cars and bigger than steel. And cereal lead the way.

food processing

With ____________________________________ demonstrating the revolutionary seal at Tupperware parties, sales skyrocketed.

housewives

In 1926, America's first radio ________________ ever was written and broadcast for Wheaties. Seven years later, Wheaties informed the public it was now the "Breakfast of Champions" and invented the ______________________ ________________________.

jingle

The 2nd World War spurred a giant surge in research into nutrition, preservation and ______________________________ of food.

mass production

But the combination of freezer and ______________________ put frozen food on the table once again.

microwave

Tupperware and other container manufacturers needed to develop new technology in the late 1970s when the ________________________________________ entered the kitchen.

microwave oven

Both SPAM and Jell-O are American originals and were created by risk-taking gamblers and basement experimenters, and they're still around today because they share the same beloved American flavor: ________________________.

nostalgia

The container's journey from source to store is a long one. Typically the goods are stuffed in a distribution center somewhere in China - in this case we'll say the Guangdong province. Then from Guangdong to the port of Hong Kong, for example, that transport is done by one of three ways: Select all that apply

over the road via truck via rail via smaller vessels through a river

Extravagant promises were commonplace. If they couldn't get you to buy with promises, they brought presents for your kids. In 1911, Kellogg offered the very first ____________ inside a box of corn flakes.

premium

Milton Hershey's whole caramel business was based on selling a lot of a product at a small ____________________________________. So you have to sell a lot of it.

profit margin

Even though Twinkies are among the most popular items to put into time capsules, Twinkies do not have an infinite __________________________. They have to sell within two weeks, or out they go.

shelf life

In the 1980s, frozen food fell out of fashion, condemned as flavorless and unappealing, after giant leaps in the _________________________________________ introduced a huge new range of fresh food to American markets.

shipping business

Today's corrugated boxes are _________________________ and use less paper than cardboard boxes.

stronger

The name SPAM came about as the result of a drinking game. TRUE or FALSE?

true