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Favorite Food Museums-Part 2

© Judith Stock

Everyone has favorite foods. Food is part of our daily routine. Food is comfort, soul satisfying, and nurturing. Although reason tells us that food can't fill the hole in our hearts or soothe the hurts, often when the going gets tough the tough reach out for food. Chances are high your favorite foods probably all ready have a museum and extensive collections dedicated to their honor.

The Jell-O Museum
http://www.jellomuseum.com
"There's always room for Jell-O," is the slogan known by every kid from six to sixty. The simple gelatin dessert was originally created in four flavors that included lemon, orange, strawberry, and raspberry. In 1845, Pearle B. Wait inventor the gelatin dessert and his wife named it Jell-O. In 1899, he sold his formula to the Genesee Pure Food Company for the small sum of $450.

Some little know Jell-O Trivia: On March 17, 1993, technicians at St. Jerome hospital in Batavia test a bowl of lime Jell-O with an EEG machine and confirm the earlier testing by Dr. Adrian Upton that a bowl of wiggly Jell-O has brain waves identical to those of adult men and women.

The Jell-O Museum and the 100-year-old building in historic LeRoy that houses the museum have become a grand visitor attraction in this small town, one hour east of Niagara Falls, in western New York State.

International Vinegar Museum
http://www.vinegarman.com
Located in the most impressive building in town, the former town hall of Roslyn, South Dakota, the International Vinegar Museum founded by Lawrence J. Diggs, known as Vinegar Man.

The museum features a vinegar tasting bar where vinegar lovers can sample over 120 different varieties of vinegar. The history of vinegar is told on storyboards throughout the museum and visitors can shop at the gift store that sells what else, vinegar and something I've never heard of before, vinegar candy. Who knew? If you love vinegar, sign up at the site for Vinegar Man's newsletter and learn to make your own vinegar.

Burger Museum
http://www.burgerweb.com
A German immigrant, Harry Sperl, was so fixated on hamburgers that he collected over a thousand hamburger-related items that included a waterbed and a most unusual burger motorcycle. Eat your heart out Harley-Davidson.

Sperl explained that his hamburger memorabilia collection took shape because he felt that the burger is exclusively an American icon. Some of memorabilia includes a Big Boy doll holding a hamburger from the Big Boy Restaurant chain, along with posters, toys, clocks, hats, trays, badges, magnets, music boxes, salt and pepper shakers, and pencils.

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