TIL that the founder of the modern frozen food industry, Clarence Birdseye, was inspired when ice fishing in Labrador, Canada, in -40°C weather. He discovered that the fish he caught froze almost instantly and tasted fresh afterwards unlike the slowly frozen seafood sold in New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Birdseye



Submitted April 16, 2015 at 08:00AM by piponwa http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32rdll/til_that_the_founder_of_the_modern_frozen_food/