PhonoFood
Food
and Chocolate connections with the Phonograph
Chocolate
Advertising calendar for
Chocolat de l’Hermitage. The Father's voice is heard by playing the
record on a Pathé Le Gaulois crystal horn phonograph. The calendar
sheet displayed is December 1903. (Source:
ww.phonorama.fr)
1903 Stollwerck Gramophone
These two very rare tin phonographs
pictured were made in late 1903 and were designed to play foiled
wrapped disk records made of chocolate! (1)
"Made by the Stollwerck Chocolate
company in Germany, the phonographs were powered by a tiny clock
motor...Stollwerck's French partner, Kratz-Boussac, sold the identical
machine in France under the brand name "Eureka," without the Stollwerck
markings, as pictured on the left." (Text and photograph
courtesy of Rene Rondeau and Edisontinfoil.com.)
The discs were wrapped in foil and
it was on the "foil that the ridges were stamped to enable
the music to be played through the phonograph (rather than the
needle touching the chocolate directly." For more information
about "Stollwerck Talking Chocolate" visit a Great
Taste in Music.
 
Inventor's Series card, Thomas Edison,
Inventor of the Phonograph, Number 9, Series IV, Virgin of Carmen
Chocolate Makers (1930s)
1955 Milky Way chocolate
bar magazine ad
Trader Joe's Belgian
Milk Chocolate Bar with Gramophone on box - 6.3 oz for Christmas
Gift, 2014
Chocolate Phonograph
Record made by Li-Lac Chocolates in 2017
Nestle AERO Chocolate
Bar — WATCH
HERE.
"How they get the
bubbles in the chocolate." Nestle
2023
Food
Display of Gramophone
made of apples
RPPC 1913 Gravenstein
Sebastopol Apple Show, Courtesy Western
Sonoma County Historical Society
Edison
Phonograph Exhibit at the 1913 Sebastopol Apple Fair
- The Edison Phonograph Monthly, October 1913
1940's Post Cereals
The Crew Cuts singing
on a record - 1957 Kraft Chocolate fudgies newspaper ad
Del Monte Tuna T-Shirt,
c. 1970's
Oreo Music Box -
2018 collectible packaged in a holiday tin that plays a tune when
an Oreo cookie is placed on the turntable and the tone arm is moved
as if to play a record. Unlike the 1903 Stollwerck chocolate record
there are no grooves on the cookie as it is not really a record. This
"music box" phonograph plays assorted tunes each time anything
is put on the turntable.
Kellogg's created what's
being called the world's first record made of breakfast cereal out
of its Chocolate Frosted Flakes and the music of Simon Cowell-mentored
boy band PrettyMuch.
Here's how the record was
made according to ADAM CAMPBELL-SCHMITT in his April 19, 2018 FOOD
& WINE on-line article:
First, a mold of the record
was 3-D printed with the grooves of the record in relief. Then, layers
of dark and milk chocolate were poured in to create the flat surface
necessary for a phonograph needle to read, along with a core of Chocolate
Frosted Flakes cereal in between. The center of the record is cut
out to reveal the cereal in the shape of Frosted Flakes mascot Tony
the Tiger's head. After a little time in the freezer to harden, the
resulting cereal and chocolate record is unmolded and ready to play
on any turntable or, if you choose, devoured.
Here's the link for listening
to their song "Hello" and Step 2 of the recipe, creating
the 3-D Mold.
Apple pie and milk
- Edison's favorite foods. Movie still from the 1940 MGM film "Edison
the Man" with Spencer Tracy and Rita Johnson (in Edison's laboratory).
Huntley & Palmers Biscuits
Advertising Record c. 1930 - This gramophone record was made to advertise
a visit to the Huntley & Palmer biscuit manufacturing company. The
front of the record states "for every meal time there's a biscuit."
The reverse advertises Huntley & Palmers of Reading and London Biscuit
Manufacturers.
Cadbury's Cocoa -
Instead of Nipper, there is a white cat listening to the Gramophone.
Album Chocolats
- Trade card, c. 1900 Lithographed Trade card with Thomas Alva Edison
and his phonograph advertising Album Chocolats.
This card is courtesy "Antique
Phonograph, Accessories & Contraptions by Fabrizio & Paul. Their text
reads: "These delightful lithographed cards were among the various
subjects used as premiums for turn of the twentieth century European
products such as Liebig meat extract. The public was encouraged to
collect entire series ("famous inventors", etc ..) by frequent patronage
of the product ..." Note that the phonograph is a disc machine, something
Edison never made with an open horn. Size : about 2 x 1.5 inch.
Liebig Meat Extract
- Trade card for French meat extract product, 1 1/2" x 4" - Edison
listening to battery powered Class M Phonograph
Liebig Meat Extract
- Trade card for French meat extract product, 1 1/2" x 4"
An Edison Home Phonograph
is pictured as "Le Phonographe." The card depicts a cylinder recording
scene using battery powered Phonographs.
1909 Drug Store with at
least two phonographs in back section - entertainment and retail sales?
(PM-2122)
Soda fountain in Drug
Store with Edison Phonographs for sale, circa 1911
Front End Brunsvold Bros.
Bakery with Phonograph for entertainment , Ray, North Dakota
ca. 1910
1954 Newspaper ad
Vinyl Lunch Box c. 1959,
Aladdin Industries (said to be the first vinyl lunch box made by Aladdin)
Stouffer's 'broken record."
1964
Kellogg's Rice Krispies
Cereal ad, 1965
Campbell's Soup advertisement
postcard, 1915
Campbell's Soup offer
for Record Album - M'm! M'm! Good!
Eurodisc LP Album Cover,
1982
1982 Life Savers Record
Player, Model SP15 made by DeJay Corporation
Electric Banana Stereo
Phonograph 1973
Ice-cream cool sound
Phonograph - 1976 Catalogue
Harry and David's Christmas
1986 Catalogue
Sara Lee Snacks promotional
ad, 1989
Hershey's Symphony Mail-in
Offer, 1991
Kentucky Fried Chicken
TV advertisement - Hot and Spicey on Fire, January 17, 2016
KFC Nashville Hot and Spicy chicken
is placed on the phonograph turntable, the turntable rotates and the
chicken 'flames" showing how hot it is. "But not that hot"
says the Colonel. Note the phonograph turntable settings are "Smoky",
"Crispy" and "Spicy".
To watch this commercial Click
HERE.
The State of Kentucky Fried Chicken Address
Kentucky Fried Chicken
TV ad - The Colonel's Address May 2015
This record player and
a Colonel Sanders record album are in the opening image of the KFC
television ad featuring yet another version of a Colonel Sanders who
announces that he has been gone for awhile and "boy howdy, have
things changed since the Colonel’s been gone!
To watch this commercial
Click
HERE.
Lundberg ad with rice
cake playing on Victor IV Talking Machine, ad circa 2000
Thanksgiving Playlist
for Google Play Music circa
2015
Lady Gaga Oreos, 2021
The specially-themed packages
of the cookies are based on Lady Gaga's latest album, "Chromatica."
The cookies, which come in six-cookie or full packs, are "pink-colored
Golden Oreo cookies with green colored creme" and feature designs
inspired by the album on the wafer.
"Just sing from
the heart, and make someone's day a little brighter."
The "Sing it with
Oreo" Lady Gaga Promotion, 2021- Create an Oreogram as
a musical message to a friend.
Playing the 'record'
backwards. Pizza Hut, 2021
DJ: "What'd you
say, record?"
Record: "Three Toppings
Just eleven ninety-nine."
DJ: "Amazing."
WATCH
Original Stuffed Crust Pizza Hut Commercial
September 1, 2018 - Celebrating
the Phonograph in HuskerNation with a Phonograph cookie. A day to
be remembered for the debut of Scott Frost as the new Head Coach and
for the first Nebraska football game in 128 seasons cancelled because
of weather.
Special delivery for
Friends of the Phonograph, September 1, 2018
Phonograph Birthday
Parties and Food
Friends of the Phonograph
have been annually celebrating the Birthday of the Phonograph since
1977 and food inspired by the phonograph has been an important part
of that event.
2009 Phonograph Birthday
cakes
2007 Phonograph Birthday
Party
2006 Phonograph Birthday
Cake
2004 Phonograph Birthday
Party
1997 Phonograph Birthday
Cookie
1993 Phonograph Birthday
1992 Phonograph Birthday
cake
1990 Brenda's Brownie
Birthday Record (with LP Record for the serving bowl)
1990 Phonograph Birthday
Party - It's all about discs with holes in the middle (or has Gertrude
Stein wrote "The World is Round")
1990 Phonograph Birthday
Party desert
1989 Phonograph Birthday
Party (with LP record serving bowls)
1989 Phonograph Birthday
Party
1988 Phonograph Birthday
Party cake
1987 Phonograph Birthday
Party
Restaurants
and PhonoFood
Pizzeria in Malinska,
Croatia - "Hear the Difference" 2018
Cafe Gramophone, Palam
Vihar, Gurgaon
Cafe Gramophone, Tehran
Calibro 35, LP Album
cover, 2020 (Italy)
Other
Phonograph Cakes Celebrating Personal Birthdays
80th Birthday
Happy 33 1/3 Birthday
Phonographia
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