Placeholder Image

字幕表 動画を再生する

  • - [Narrator] You remember this can.

  • The sweet sauce, the soft noodle.

  • This was childhood.

  • - [Child] Mmmm!

  • - [Narrator] But did you know that

  • Chef Boyardee was an actual chef?

  • He was, his name was Hector, and he made a mean pasta sauce.

  • But it wasn't Hector's sauce that made Chef Boyardee

  • the household name that it is today.

  • You can thank the U.S. Military for that.

  • In the 1930s, Hector Boiardi opened up an Italian

  • restaurant in Ohio and everyone was like,

  • - [Man] Oh my god, I love your sauce.

  • - [Narrator] So he started selling it,

  • and he sold a lot of it.

  • A lot, a lot.

  • By 1938, he had opened up his own factory

  • selling his sauce and pasta can.

  • - [Man] Ask for Chef Boyardee's spaghetti dinner,

  • only about 15 cents a serving.

  • - [Narrator] Then, World War II happened

  • and a phone call was made.

  • The U.S. Military called Hector and said something like.

  • - [Man] Help make food for the troops.

  • - [Narrator] He already had the canning

  • infrastructure so Hector said, yeah, alright.

  • His company shifted from a civilian

  • consumer base to a military one.

  • Chef Boyardee became the largest supplier

  • of rations to U.S. and allied forces.

  • Production was happening 24/7.

  • By the end of the war, the factory was too large

  • and the military demand no longer existed.

  • Hector didn't know what to do,

  • so he sold it to this large company called American Home Products

  • who were all like,

  • - [Man] We got this.

  • - [Narrator] They quickly rebranded and distributed

  • the can as easy to make at-home meals

  • and filled supermarket shelves across the United States.

  • So today when we buy Chef Boyardee,

  • we're actually eating rebranded World War II field rations.

  • Yup.

- [Narrator] You remember this can.

字幕と単語

ワンタップで英和辞典検索 単語をクリックすると、意味が表示されます

B1 中級

シェフ・ボヤルディが戦争へ (Chef Boyardee Goes to War)

  • 50 1
    許大善 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
動画の中の単語