The 1955 collecting expedition to East Africa was financed by local businessmen Gordon and Vernon Stouffer of Stouffer's Corporation and Frederick Crawford of Thompson Products. The Stouffer brothers also used the Safari as a means to test out a new idea; three one-pound packages of frozen cooked food was packed in dry ice and shipped to East Africa. The first meal of the excursion included Lobster Newberg, spinach loaf, Swiss steak, and French fried shrimp. This dinner was promoted by the Stouffers in the Cleveland Plain Dealer as the "beginning of a new era in food industry," where "frozen cooked foods can be made available to people in any part of the world." | Source: Image courtesy of Cleveland Public Library Photograph CollectionDownload Original File
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