Eating History

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In the United States, food advertising has molded the way americans eat, lived and dined as a family and as consumers for years and has molded the in the wake of changing businesses and their demands, of the media, communication technologies, and cultural american history. Advertising, print media as well as television has been made to intrigue the minds throughout amaerican history and cause people to try new foods, to help spread the various types of cuisine throught the United States.
Starting in the early to middle of the nineteenth century food advertisements demonstrated a strong sense of food appeals to americans as a way to get them to resturants, fast food establishments or even to the grocery stores and supermarkets. Although there wasnt that many companies who could mass produce and sell their products to Americans. The large department stores in rapidly-growing cities started to become more of a resiliant source of food productiona and areas for food advertising since there was an steady migration to the new industrialized areas in the United States. Since the 1920s, American food advertising has grown emnssly, and the current advertising costs are eighty times more valuable than they were then. Branded consumer products gave way and this the national advertising of branded goods began in this time period in response to the major and noticeable changes in the distribution of food and resturants in america along with this some manufacturers. Other businesses also turned to advertising as a form of getting people to their products. Advertising refrences such as the Newspapers, Magazines and Television when it was firsted came into exsistance and started broadasting becames major components in the advertising era and al...

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Over the next few years the overall improved construction and industrilialization of transportation allowed for the growth of the extension of the regional as well as the national trade networks from rural areas as well as in the industrialized cities. But as the production and manufacturing of goods were steadly increasing food advertisement had to be more efficiently and effectively distributed and marketed to americans from all walks of life across the nation. For as the more of the early advertising was contained in print media, this spead the need for literacy and education in the United States and with this. This became so important that it has become the central and vital to the production of general communications and to provide the an economic standing that breeds food advertising to exist and to thrive.

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