Old-School Frozen Foods No One Really Eats Anymore

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Old-School Frozen Foods No One Really Eats Anymore By Jon Gutierrez Aug. 27, 2025 2:40 pm EST

Frozen food has become such a staple of modern life that it's easy to forget that it's only a little over a hundred years old. And while people have been freezing food to preserve it for thousands of years, it wasn't until 1924, when Clarence Birdseye founded his company, Birdseye Seafoods, that frozen food became commercially available. Birdseye's flash-freezing process changed the way consumers ate and stored their groceries, preserving easily spoiled fruits and vegetables, and ensuring that once-seasonal items were available year-round. But, as you can imagine, everyone's tastes and eating habits have changed a lot in the last hundred years, which means that many once-popula