Favorite Food Brands that Came Out of the Great Depression

Sometimes the hardest times bring out the best in people! For the Great Depression, lack of money for many people meant they had to get creative with how to earn some. Entrepreneurship has always been a wonderful American value and pillar of our economy. But during the Great Depression, it was at an all time high!

With very few jobs available, people learned to create their own jobs. By sharing a skill or knowledge that they had, they filled the needs of people that they saw around them. Many new business grew out of this trying time in our country. And not a few of them were food related! Almost a hundred years later, we are still enjoying many of them today!

Here are just a few of the food companies that started in the Great Depression.