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If your like most moms everybody always want something different then you decide to make for dinner. I have done menu’s for the week.  Ask them what they would like on certain nights, but nothing seems to work.

Then I ran across this sign and decide it needs to go up in my kitchen as soon as it comes to the home. Maybe my guys will get the hint that what I fix for dinner is it.

This authentic reproduction tin sign makes a great gift for any mom.

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Counting Calories In Vegetables - Food Calories

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When dieting, counting calories can render awesome results on your weight scales. Vegetables are tops for dieters because most all are ultra-low in calories and contain zero-minimal fat. Oh my, there is a pretty picture developing here - and that picture is YOU! 

And vegetables make a healthy choice for anyone - dieting or not! Steaming your vegetables or enjoying them raw without added sauces/oils is the absolute healthiest means of preparation, though because they are so low in calories, a bit of sauce/glaze will certainly keep vegetables well within ‘diet calorie range’. 

Be sure to wash all vegetables well  before use to remove harmful bacteria and insecticides. No calorie butter spray can be used generously, so squeeze that bottle and in turn, squeeze those unwanted pounds away by enjoying something healthy and diet smart!

This vintage tin sign will make a great Christmas gift.

If you live in a major metropolitan area, you’ve probably noticed the reemergence of diners on the restaurant scene. Part of this trend can be attributed to the tough national economy, but it’s not too much of a stretch to suggest that the reasons run a bit deeper. Upscale restaurants have their own charm, but all too often they lack the sense of relaxation and camaraderie that a diner has in spades.

Diners are quaint, familiar places where you can find a meal without any fuss. Only the simplest, freshest ingredients are used, and the floor plan is instantly recognizable as well. You’ll have a few tables, a metal counter with backless stools and a jukebox in the corner. Unique bistro road signs line the walls of the joint, and the proprietor is happy to discuss the news of the day; if you’re lucky, he might even offer a few pearls of wisdom gleaned from a long career in the food industry.

The kitchen is one of the most-used rooms in any house, and it should be a fun, relaxing space. After all, eating a meal gives you a break from your day, allows you to rest your feet and fills your belly with good food. Warm colors, like golden yellow, work great in kitchens, and you can add other decor to achieve that soothing, down-home feel. Choose a theme for your kitchen, like vegetables, grapes and wine, or picnic food, and look for accent pieces and accessories to sprinkle around your kitchen to tie the room together.

One charming look for any kitchen is vintage 30s and 40s decor. You can decorate your kitchen like an old-time diner or simply an idyllic family kitchen. A great way to achieve this look is to decorate your kitchen with food tin signs that display family favorites like hot dogs, ice cream, eggs, Hostess cupcakes and more. Retro tin signs are fun and stylish, and can even be humorous if you choose. Add some character to your kitchen with tin signs today!

The Great American Chocolate Bar!
Milton S. Hershey’s “food of the future” by the box - What more could you ask for? HERSHEY’S milk chocolate bar is the standard for all chocolate lovers. Simple, pure and dependable. Production of the HERSHEY’S milk chocolate bar began in 1899 and is known by over 93% of consumers of all ages.

During the winter of 1999-2000, the HERSHEY’S milk chocolate bar celebrated its 100th birthday.

Foil wrapped candy bars have been discontinued by the manufacturer. All Hershey candy bars are now made with sealed plastic wrappers to maintain freshness.

For everyone that is a Hershey’s lover know you can have you very own Hershey’s Candy bar tin sign to display proudly.

At about the same time that Colgate & Co. introduced a perfumed soap called Cashmere Bouquet, William Procter and James Gamble decided to begin business together in Cincinnati. These two men began their fortune by selling candles and soap from a wheelbarrow. It did not too long before Procter and Gamble was delivering large quantities to major cities such as Memphis, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Ivory soap was introduced to the marketplace in 1879.

Did you every wonder why Ivory Soap floats? In the development stages, James N. Gamble called it ‘White Soap’. James Gamble and his associates finally perfected the formula for the “White Soap” in 1878. At first, the name of this soap was going to be called P&G White Soap, but Harley Procter decided to give the soap a name that people could remember. Procter attempted numerous times to find an appropriate name for the soap.

This Ivory soap tin sign would look great in any room or given as a great gift.

Men in search of quick fortunes began drifting into Death Valley after the Civil War, hoping to find a lucky strike of gold or silver.  In 1881, one such prospector, Aaron Winters, was living with his wife, Rosie, at Ash Meadows, a desolate place near the Funeral Mountain, on the east side of Death Valley.

According to one visitor, the Winters lived in a hovel, “close against a hill, one side half-hewn out of rock, with a thatched roof. The earth served as a floor.”

That visitor was Harry Spiller, who had come riding down from Nevada, looking for a mineral that men were cashing in on big there.  “It lays in dry lake bottoms,” he told Winters, “white crystals like cottonball turned into mineral.  They call it borax.  Big demand for it.”

Spiller indicated that a fortune could be made by anyone lucky enough to find borax beds in Death Valley.  Winters questioned the visitor.  He learned that when sulphuric acid and alcohol are poured over borax and ignited, the mixture burns with a green flame.

After Spiller left, Winters obtained the chemicals he needed to make the test.  He was certain he had seen deposits in Death Valley resembling Spiller’s description of borax.  Making camp at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, Winters and his wife went to a nearby marsh and gathered up some deposits.

They then waited for nightfall to make the test.  As darkness closed in, Winters placed some of the deposits in a saucer, poured sulphuric acid and alcohol over them and struck a match.  It was an anxious moment.  For years, the couple had lived like desert Indians, eating mesquite beans and lizards when they had no flour and bacon.  Rosie had suffered keenly from the desperation of their situation.  Now, in a moment, the color of a flame would tell them whether they could look forward to better things, or only more of the same dreary existence.

With trembling hand, Winters held the match to the mixture.  “She burns green, Rosie!” he bellowed.  “By God, we’re rich!”

Winters sent samples of the material to the William T. Coleman Company in San Francisco.  He then quietly filed claims to the water rights at Furnace Creek.  A canny fellow, Winters knew that a borax plant couldn’t operate without water.

A Coleman representative soon arrived at Furnace Creek.  Winters haggled until he had secured the promise of a check for $20,000 for discovery rights, to be paid immediately after he had shown the Coleman representative where the deposit was located.

The representative may not have been entirely happy when he found out that the borax was located in the middle of nowhere; nevertheless, he handed over a check and began staking claims.  Then he discovered that Winters owned the water rights.  The Coleman representative had no choice but to reluctantly hand over another check, for $2,500, to secure those rights as well.

With his newfound wealth, Winters treated Rosie to a shopping spree in San Francisco, before settling down with her on a desert ranch outside Pahrump, Nevada, which he had purchased for $20,000.

Rosie bought new dresses and other comforts, but she did not have long to enjoy her newfound luxuries.  In 1887, Aaron Winters, owing back taxes, lost all but a small part of the ranch.  However, he remained a part of the Death Valley borax story.

This Swift’s Borax soap tin sign makes a great gift for someone or even get one for your self.

Baby Ruth is a candy bar that is made of chocolate-covered peanuts, caramel, and nougat, though the nougat found in it is more like fudge than is found in many other American candy bars. The bar was a staple of Chicago-based Curtiss Candy Company for some seven decades. Curtiss was later purchased by Nabisco, and after a series of mergers and acquisitions, the candy bar is currently produced by Nestlé. In 1921 the Curtiss Candy Company refashioned its Kandy Kake into the Baby Ruth.

Although the name of the candy bar sounds nearly identical to the name of the famous baseball player Babe Ruth, the Curtiss Candy Company has traditionally claimed that it was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth Cleveland. Nonetheless, the bar first appeared in 1921, as Babe Ruth’s fame was on the rise and long after Cleveland had left the White House and 15 years after his daughter had died. Moreover, the company had failed to negotiate an endorsement deal with Ruth, and many saw the company’s story about the origin of the name of the bar as merely a way to avoid having to pay the baseball player any royalties. Ironically, Curtiss successfully shut down a rival bar that was approved by, and named for, Ruth, on the grounds that the names were too similar in the case of George H. Ruth Candy Co. v. Curtiss Candy Co, 49 F.2d 1033 (1931).

In the edition called What Are Hyenas Laughing At, Anyway? (1995), p.84, he reports the standard story about the bar being named for Grover Cleveland’s daughter, with interesting additional information that ties it to the President: “The trademark was patterned exactly after the engraved lettering of the name used on a medallion struck for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, and picturing the President, his wife, and daughter Baby Ruth.”

The next edition, How Do Astronauts Scratch an Itch? (1996), p. 288-289, brings out a new and potentially more plausible (and prosaic) explanation. The author was tipped off by a letter writer, referring to another trivia collection, More Misinformation, by Tom Burnam: “Burnam concluded that the candy bar was named… after the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Williamson, candy makers who developed the original formula and sold it to Curtiss.” (Williamson had also sold the “Oh Henry!” formula to Curtiss around that time.) The writeup goes on to note that marketing the product as being named for a company executive’s granddaughter would likely have been less successful, hence their “official” story.

However, in “Do Elephants Jump?” (2004), p. 264-265, David Mikkelson of Snopes.com denies the claim that the Williamsons invented the recipe, as Mr. George Williamson was head of the Williamson Candy Company, producers of the Oh Henry! bar. He continues to say that “the Baby Ruth bar came about when Otto Schnering, founder of the Curtiss Candy Company, made some alterations to his company’s first candy offering, a confection known as ‘Kandy Kake.’”

As if to tweak their own official denial of the name’s origin, after Babe Ruth’s Called Shot at Wrigley Field in the 1932 World Series, the Chicago-based Curtiss company installed an illuminated advertising sign for Baby Ruth on the roof of one of the flats across Sheffield Avenue, near where Ruth’s home run ball had landed in center field. The sign stood for some four decades before finally being removed.

Company founder Otto Schnering chartered a plane in 1923 to drop thousands of Baby Ruth bars over the city of Pittsburgh — each with its own mini parachute.

In 1995, a company representing the Ruth estate licensed his name and likeness for use in a Baby Ruth marketing campaign.

On p.34 of the spring, 2007, edition of the Chicago Cubs game program, there is a full-page ad showing a partially-unwrapped Baby Ruth in front of the Wrigley ivy, with the caption, “The official candy bar of major league baseball, and proud sponsor of the Chicago Cubs.”

Continuing the baseball-oriented theme, during the summer and post-season of the 2007 season, a TV ad for the candy bar showed an entire stadium (played by Dodger Stadium) filled with people munching Baby Ruths, and thus having to “hum” rather than singing along with “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch.

This is the story behind the Baby Ruth candy bar know you can have your very own tin sign to remember days gone by.

The image of Miss Sunbeam® was created by a well known children’s book illustrator named Ellen Segner during the early 1940’s. Miss Sunbeam® was drawn from life by Ellen Segner in Washington Square Park in New York City and was based upon her observation over several days of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed little girl playing in the park. From these drawings, she developed the original oil painting of Miss Sunbeam®, which hangs today in the offices of Quality Bakers of America. Ellen Segner produced over 30 original oil paintings of Miss Sunbeam® that were used for print and outdoor advertising in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s across the USA.

Sunbeam® White Bread was first marketed in the Philadelphia, PA area in 1942, where it was an immediate success. After the Second World War ended, many bakers across the United States began to bake the Miss Sunbeam® Brand as members of the Quality Bakers of America Cooperative. Today approximately 40 bakeries covering the US from coast to coast bake and distribute Miss Sunbeam® breads and rolls.

You can have this tin sign to hang up on the wall in your kitchen or any room you choice and will fit in with any decor.

The business of food will always be profitable when it’s approached the right way. Fresh ingredients and friendly service are often enough to set a successful diner apart from the run of the mill. Of course, no traditional diner would be complete without some classic décor. Antique bar stools, a steel counter and a chalk board for listing the day’s specials are basic diner essentials.

Bare walls would never do in a cozy restaurant, and that’s where diner signs become indispensable. Some old-fashioned signs advertise products from a bygone age. Others simply provide a gentle reminder about the wholesome food that awaits eager patrons. Either way, retro signs add an extra element of ambiance to the classic diner experience.