Incredible foods that were discovered by accident | E-Neighborhood Advisor

 

It’s often said necessity is the mother of invention, but when you look at how some of our favorite foods came into being – cheese puffs, Nashville hot chicken, chimichangas – we would vouch that curiosity, clumsiness, and error is the most guaranteed formula. Here are the products and dishes that nearly didn’t happen per MSN Food reporter Miriam Carey. Buffalo wings Can’t imagine a world without buffalo wings? You only have to look back 60 years, as the accidental invention of deep-fried spicy wings served with celery and blue cheese dip can be almost indisputably traced to The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, in 1964. Teresa Bellissimo had meant to order chicken necks, but instead received a shipment of wings and so thought up a new dish to avoid wasting them. Chocolate brownies There are a few claims on the invention of the crispy-on-the-outside, gooey-on-the-inside creation that is the chocolate brownie. But the story favored by many and cited in Betty Crocker's Baking Classics is that home economist Mildred Brown Schrumpf in Bangor, Maine was baking a chocolate cake and it deflated. TV dinners Despite earlier attempts to crack the ready-meal market, it wasn’t until Swanson Foods made a royal business blunder that left it with 520,000 lbs (2,356 tons) of excess turkey after Thanksgiving in 1953, that TV dinners successfully made it into American homes. Annoyed bosses requested staff think up a way to avoid wasting it. A ready meal that looked like a TV was the answer.

Popsicle Did you know, the inventor of the Popsicle, the much-loved summertime treat, was an 11-year-old child? In 1905, Frank Epperson left a cup of soda with its stirring stick in it on the porch overnight and when he went outside the next morning it had frozen. Frank called his invention the ‘Epsicle’, because it was like an icicle, and later made it for his own kids who called it ‘Pop’s ‘sicle’. The catchy name was patented in 1923. Ice cream cones It was a moment of thinking-on-your-feet that led to the invention of the ice cream cone, which some might go as far as saying ice cream is incomplete without. It was at the St. Louis World’s Fair, in Missouri, in 1904, when Syrian concessionaire Ernest Hamwi decided to roll up some zalabia, which are crisp, waffle-like pastries, to help out a neighboring ice cream vendor who ran out of bowls. Chocolate chip cookies In Massachusetts, in the 1930s, restaurant-owner Mrs. Wakefield is said to have been baking cookies, and discovered she'd ran out of an ingredient so substituted in Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate. The cookies were thought to be so delicious, Nestlé provided Ruth with a lifetime supply of chocolate in exchange for being able to print the recipe on its packet. Chimichangas Tex-Mex favorite the chimichanga was reportedly invented by Monica Flin at her Tucson restaurant, El Charro Café, Arizona, in 1922. She accidentally dropped a burrito into the frying pan and when hot oil splashed up, she was about to swear, but stopping herself because her young nieces and nephews were around, yelled "chimichanga!" instead.

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