Date of Award

12-1953

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

R.A. Hamilton

Abstract

Recently a well known French connoisseur of fine foods visited this country and made a remark to the effect that any way one looks at it the American sense of taste is a formidable divinity. British novelists have long thought so and the symbol of the American on their playful pages is no longer the cigar and the spittoon of Dickens' era but the familiar drugstore ice-cream counter and the paper spoon. Truth, however, is stranger than even British fiction. The American sense of taste stocked, in the year 1866, 880,010 in totals of 1,000 pounds of sugar, or approximately 24.4 pounds per capita. By 1880 this had increased to 2,201,307 in totals of 1,000, or approximately 43.3 pounds per capita. In 1900 the amount of consumption was 5,585,230 in totals of 1,000 pounds or an approximate per capita consumption of 72.6 pounds per person. By 1929 the per capita consumption reached to 108 pounds per person, and, caused many and many an American woman to eat more than her own weight in solid sweets.

Comments

A Research Paper for the Course in Growth of Big Business Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Accepted for partial fulfillment of master's degree B. plan.

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