The Real Willy Wonka | The Food Scientist Behind Your Favorite Junk Food 

When a childhood slaving away in the fields makes you hate real food so much, you dedicate your life to making artificial food.

We need a general history of soda. I was thinking just root beer but I think soda has a weird origin in general. I think it would make a great episode.

Another suggestion. Holiday food. Foods that you eat mostly during Xmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween.

Cool Whip is one of my favorites. It’s made pumpkin pie better, and I enjoy it with a nice chocolate pudding

they need to bring back Tang to how it used to taste. one of the best juice powders ever but it has not been the same the last 20yrs.

For those of us who have tried low-carb diets, sugar-free Jell-O with Cool Whip is a godsend

I actually knew all of this. He was one of the guys I wrote to when my class did their letters to NASA. I got his autograph filed away somewhere in my attic

these are always interesting because not only do they give a bit of insight into American food culture but, they give some context to how foods may have spread around the world as well. being an Australian we get some weird levels of what comes into our country and what doesn't. for instance while we get Oreo's we don't get Twinkies. seeing the history of these things explains a lot.

This channel has made me feel more appreciated for the food that we have now!

Ugh love these videos, and I'm so excited for the food channel now! We just finished watching The Food That Built America and it was so good and I love the videos have similarities!

I bought Oreos with popping candy last July. I was expecting something like Pop Rocks, they weren't but Granddaughter loved them.

I would love to know the origins of the British beans on toast. I feel like the answer “war time food shortages” isn’t good enough

Coming straight from Weird History and Mobsters… Let’s see what’s in store for us today. 🙂

You should do an episode on when sodas stopped using real sugar and started using high fructose corn syrup and aspartame

I loved Cool Whip as a kid. I bought a whole tub of it once and got 3/4s of the way through it before I realized it like drinking cloyingly sugary oil. I haven’t had any since that fateful day.

Familiar with Pop Rocks from the film Urban Legend and the Simpsons. I've had Cool Whip with pie. Another junk food topic covered by Weird History Food.

You guys make my Sundays worth waking up for

Suggestion: Pillsbury products. Biscuits.. Cinnamon rolls. Slice and bake cookies. It seems that only Pillsbury makes and sells slice and bake cookie dough.

i'd always wanted to try eating these foods in a zero-gravity environment

I hope he was well compensated for those inventions. Can totally imagine him getting screwed financially.

And never forget when Homer mixed Pop Rocks with Buzz Cola to make a bomb and escape from the candy convention.

First time I tried Pop Rocks: "What sorcery is this?! Yummy!" --- Yea they were fun.

I was a Cosmic Candy aficionado as a kid. The orange flavor was awesome. It was really hard to find so when my dad saw it he would buy a lot of it. He put it in the highest cabinet so I wouldn’t blow through it. He was always concerned about me giving it to my baby brother and would tell me not to every time. As if I was going to share with a dumb stinky baby! 😆 (Coincidentally that baby brother is my very best friend now ❤️) It’s strange how some small things stick in your mind! Now orange Tang is another issue, never liked the stuff!

I find Pop Rocks at 5 Below and the Dollar Tree all the time 🤗.

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I always wondered what the bubbles in bubble tea were! 😀

"pop rocks didn't kill Mikey, aren't spider eggs" what a headline

Food genius! Growing up in the '70s, I remember my Grandma giving me Tang every morning with breakfast and all of the other products as well. As for Pop Rocks, I actually went on a date in the '90s that featured Pop Rocks after a long walk out onto the Santa Barbara pier. Mitchell has given us all a lot of really fun memories.

This episode is an en memoriam for my childhood kitchen. I still keep a tub of Cool Whip in my freezer, usually for replicating one of my mom's old desserts, usually from a recipe from one of the stack of women's magazines she read every month. Sometimes you just wanna taste some memories.

I remember my mother warning me not to eat Pop Rocks because she was worried about the safety of them. My aunt bought them for me on the sly & snuck them to me when I spent the night at their house, and I absolutely loved them!!! I kept it a total secret from my mother because I knew that she would lose her mind if she found out that I had gotten ahold of them. And I knew that my aunt & I would be separated and kept apart, and she was one of my favorite people on the planet. So I never told a soul. She still has no idea about this. 😂🤣😂

I had Pop Rocks up here in the Canadian prairies during the 90's.

He was a food wizard. Cool Whip is of my favorites.

History of the pizza Lunchable :) Great content.

If I was being nasty I'd call him a food criminal. But the guy is a genius and invented products that millions of people love. The fact that I don't like them doesn't take anything away from his accomplishments.

I guess Mitchell's ideas just POPS out of his mind

I love Tang and pop rocks, now I know who to thank for their creation!

Wow seeing all these commercials bring me back to my childhood. And yes Pop Rocks was the BOMB!! And I remember believing the Mikey rumors too.

In Israel, theyu sell chocolate that has pop rocks inside. 10/10 best chocolate.

I can attest that pop rocks are still very much a real thing here in canada with the same packaging as always. Some times during the year you can pick up a "lick a maid/fun dip esk" variant with a sucker that you can dip into the pop rocks.

My dad was Mr. Mitchells paperboy back in the 60's in Lincoln Park, NJ! He lived across the street from him and said he gave out quarters every Halloween.

Amazing, I had no idea pop rocks had such a long and sordid history!

I remember one of the early episodes of Mythbusters busting Pop Rocks & cola

A+ video! Food Wizard! It's incredible how influential his creations have been, fantastic video!

I always figured it was moisture that activated Pop Rocks. I would’ve never guessed that it was temperature.

I don't know how many times I can say this is one of my fave channels. My absolute fave narrator. If love to see something about Aussie and Kiwi snacks and another one on the dessert war of words such as pavlova

Can you do a video Cereal history?

I would like to know more about Camping foods!

I’m always able to find pop rocks at my local Dollar Tree.

Cayenne "Pop Rocks" is not a thing I would have ever imagined, but now that I know about it, very much want.

I can't believe you had to discuss Cool Whip without referencing Stewie. Damn you copyright!

Oliver Chase should be mentioned, as a pioneer candy man, creating Necco Wafers in the early nineteenth century.

A true food hero

To know that he settled in Stockton… blows my MIND. 😂

Weird food history guy, your the best, these bids are spot on!! Thx! 😉

Back in the 90s we also had the pop rocks down in mexico, and boy we have more than 90 degrees down here havent heard anything related from the video no explosions no heat burst only massive fun sizzle in our mouths lol. We have another similar candy. The interior has baking soda and its lemon flavor. Oh boy when your reach the center lol these are so nice

Love the channel keep up the great work!

At my brother's house my Mom left some stuff for him a while back and one of the Tang Pitchers is there, still has the orange lid on it and everything, pretty cool

Thank you for the content!

Get your Pop Rocks and Coke fix at your local Dollar Tree! I was a manager at a store that sold both everyday!!😄😄

I want to know about Taco Bell. How it came to be, how it has changed, it’s popularity over time. Taco Bell please!!!!

I love these videos! Great work guys!

God I love this channel! Awesome work man!

I still eat them from time to time. My daughter loves them. It is such a unique candy. I have not tried them with soda ever due to the scare.

Always super interesting content sir..great narration and well created videos..so yeah you deserve some major credit for the work you put into your channels..

Hard working man from the beginning..loved this info..Thank you..

This was extremely interesting and very well done. Thanks

Awesome video

I've never heard of Tang, but he invented Pop Rocks which is awesome.

We still have poprocks in Canada?

I would love to see an episode on Cajun food, not the overpriced stuff sold in New Orleans, nope, more along the lines of the cuisine regular everyday people in Southern Louisiana partake in . Now a little off subject that this episode helped me remember: When I was a kid, in the mid 70's my dad was stationed at Peterson Air Field just outside Colorado Springs Colorado, I forgot what the event was, but Buzz Aldrin was the main attraction, and somehow, someway, a Stars and Stripes photographer took a picture and that picture was the cover of their next edition, and it was me a towhead 7 year old kid shaking hands with Mr Aldrin. I always thought that was pretty cool, because unlike today, kids never get to do Meet and Greets with men like that

Thanks for this! ☁

Let us all give thanks to William Mitchell for the invention of Cool Whip 🙏

If William A. Mitchell invented Tang, then he should also receive some credit for so many of the hilarious unintentional double-entredres spoken by the completely oblivious that have kept those of us with immature senses of humor laughing throughout the years...

Another great video! I'd love to see a video on Ron Popeil and his Ronco company. I have one of his rotisserie ovens and I use weekly ❤

damn, this channel is awesome. its filling that empty spot Tasted left since they shut down

Best one yet!

Your channel reminds me of this food show that tells us about the snacks history.

WHeres the Cool WHip? WHo took my Cool WHip?

I am drinking Tang grape flavored juice while watching this video. I just noticed it.

Maybe during October you guys can do a video on the monster cereals.

I did not know about that Taco Bell cayenne pepper rocks. Whoa! I’m cautiously curious.

They are definitely still around. I love them

As a child I loved Jello-1-2-3. I thought it was such a fancy dessert.

I currently have a packet of pop rocks on my desk. Mmm so good; tastes like childhood!

Mr. Mitchell is a legend!

Pop Rocks was a great kitty litter enhancer.

Pop rocks weren't pulled everywhere. They were one of my favorite candy's in the 80s

Nice to see a biography on an industry scientist, thanks

this dude is my personal hero.

I grew up in the 1960’s and drank Tang for breakfast every day. I hated orange juice because of the “bits”in it (pulp).

Unrelated but I'd love to see a weird history x internet historian crossover one day!

Here is an instant Dessert recipe for you all. One regular container of cool whip, One package of instant vanilla pudding, one small can of crushed pineapple. Stir pudding mix and pineapple together in a bowl until the pudding dissolves, mix in cool whip until full incorporated , cover and let chill in the frig for at the least 2 hours. This can also be used as a cake frosting, in fact it is a cake frosting but it's just as good as a stand alone dessert. It's used on a mandarin orange cake, make a regular yellow cake with a can of mandarin oranges as a substitute for water. You will want to drain the liquid into a measuring cup and add in what ever water my be left and mix cake normally, fold in the oranges gently so they don't tear apart. Bake as instructed on the box. Once baked let cool completely, you want an ice cold cake, otherwise your frosting will melt and your cake will slide off if you are making more than one layer. I hope you enjoy my Mom's Mandarin Orange cake, it was a favorite in our house and I wanted to share it with the world.

Sorry astronauts, but I have loved Tang since I was a child in the 60s & still enjoy it today.

If all that is true. We live in a crazy world.

Really interesting!

I'd love to see the REAL "Willy Wonka" aka William A. Mitchell's, candy factory. And see the science and creativity behind it all.

Had no idea he went to college in Lincoln, Nebraska, I lived there on and off for ten years!

Zero bar.. In Madeira Beach and Reddington Beach, FL there is a place called, Candy Kitchen. You can order specialized boxes of candy from each decade. Whenever anyone visits it's on the list of, places to visit.

The first time I bought it was in my elementary school years late 70’s I loved the popping sensation in my mouth my favorite candy of all times 😂

No way! there’s a weird history FOOD channel! I thought the narrators voice sounded familiar! This is very exciting