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The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant was the third one built, opening in 1953. It's located at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California.

This is arguably the best form of "Fast food." Worldwide, vendors travel the streets selling freshly cooked food for low prices. This is what lead to the interest in full-sized restaurants with comprehensive menus that provided food for low prices on…

White Castle Building No. 8 at West 33rd Street and Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The restaurant is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an example of a prefabricated porcelain-coated steel structure once built by…

The logo itself is blue, red, and yellow, and is a few large dots surrounding the actual brand "WONDER". This style of bread is a white, enriched, loaf that is sold pre-sliced and ready to eat. It is also very cheap and not very nutritional, which…

This picture shows a recipe for how to make bread in ancient times and the process that it entails. This recipe is incredibly simple and easy to replicate, with the biggest hurdle being finding the ingredients necessary. This process starts with…

The importation of maize into international diets began with the first encounters with the native inhabitants of the Pre-Columbian Americas by European settlers and explorers starting as early as the 15th century.
Maize can trace its origins to…

This article dives deep into the similarities between brewing and baking, with similarities being cereal grains and fermentation and differences being the end product and the exact details of the bread/beer making process. In fact, bread was commonly…

The origin of the tamale is contested between historians as many have different ideas as to where it was first conceived in the Americas. Commonly thought, the tamale came from Mexican migrants to the United States in the early 20th century,…

Automat food vendors like these were much more common in Europe and still are. This one, from New York, featured low-price, ready-made items for affordable prices. Image getting off the train, headed to your job at the type-writer company, and…

The Big Mac. The grandaddy of it all. McDonald's most famous sandwich helped launch the brand to the top of the fast-food industry. The only sandwich more famous than the Big Mac perhaps is the McRib, but only due to it's fleeting nature.