They spell the name phonetically to keep American tongues from twisting on the Italian pronunciation. So, using milk bottles, he packaged up the sauce and sent them off. Among his products was a cheesecake named after his young daughter, Sara Lee Lubin. Before Tim and Nina Zagat, there was Duncan Hines, a traveling . From Italian immigrant to selling his company for millions, Boiardi's story is the very embodiment of the American dream. When it comes to food brands and their human "mascots," you really can't believe everything you see. When I see cans of Chef Boyardee Lasagna, I think of ads using Weird Al Yankovics Lasagna as background music. In the 1970s, friends suggested that Amos make cookies his full-time business. The Milton factory started operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week in 1942, according to the company website. [6] American Home Foods turned its food division into International Home Foods in 1996. Soon after, he was offered a job he couldn't turn down - to be head of the kitchen at Cleveland's famed and very popular Hotel Winton. Dean was already a well-known country singer, actor, and TV personality when he and his brother Don founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company in 1969. and "Hilltop" for Coca-Cola. With his brothers Mario and Paul, Chef Hector starts the Chef Boyardee Company. In some cases, the name simply sounds good. Ettore Boiardi was an Italian Italian immigrant who came to the United States at the age of 16 and took the name "Hector Boiardi" while passing through Ellis Island. they serve chef at the olive garden so dont tell me its not real italian food. As of 2021, the following products are no longer in production. In terms of famous people from Ohio, Chef Boyardee might just top them all! [1][2], After leaving his position as head chef at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Ettore Boiardi opened a restaurant called Il Giardino d'Italia in 1924[3] at East 9th Street and Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.