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Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history
In which a pasta-filled rabbit hole leads to an unexpected place
When revolutionaries get together, they talk about the technical aspects of food: how to ripen a tomato, for example, and whether the extra volume provided by beating eggs with a wire whisk justifies not using the more convenient electric beater. A different profile from the same year credited her with coming up the idea of selling olive oil and red wine vinegar in paired bottles, “for immediate table use.” If you’ve seen any of those products in the USA, and you probably have, there’s a good chance you can thank Betty Ossola. Goerke made the more famous single product, no argument there, but beyond the sales figures Ossola may well have had a broader cultural impact by popularizing Italian foods (the real deal) in the first place.
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