The Food That Built America Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
Episode 2 - The Chocolate RushIn 1919, Milton Hershey is king of the chocolate business. But everything changes when in a Post WW1 sugar price drop, a rush of competitors spring up, including his former employee HB Reese, who will go on to create the best-selling candy on the planet. |
Episode 3 - The Kings of BurgersIn the 1950s, Ray Kroc franchises McDonald's nationwide, but right behind Kroc a wave of other entrepreneurs try to cash in on the fast food restaurant craze. |
Episode 4 - American CheeseAt the turn of the 20th century, James Kraft challenges thousands of years of cheese-making tradition and forever alters the dairy industry with his new cheese innovation. |
Episode 5 - Cola WarsIn the 1970s, one major cola brand launches a blind taste test marketing plan that takes direct aim at their biggest competitor. |
Episode 6 - Chip DynastiesHerman Lay takes regional and small-time chips business to a national scale with his cutting-edge sales techniques and world-changing packaging technology, while a rival innovator invents a new kind of snack chip that will challenge Lay's crown. |
Episode 7 - Cookie WarsAdolphus Green creates one of the most iconic cookie companies in history, and revolutionize packaging. But when his former partners strike back with their signature invention, Green retaliates with the help of Milton Hershey. |
Episode 8 - Soup of the CenturyWhen a chemist begins working at the Joseph A. Campbell preserve company, he invents a condensed soup that brings this rare luxury to the nation for the first time. |
Episode 9 - Godfathers of Fast FoodA short order chef invents the hamburger bun and engineers a new way of making a burger faster than ever before. Meanwhile, Nathan Handwerker invests his life savings into a hot dog stand at Coney Island. |
Episode 10 - The TV DinnerGilbert Swanson inherits his father's frozen turkey company and partners with a food chemist to innovate a revolutionary dinner that Americans can heat up at home. |
Episode 11 - Ice Cream EmpiresA young boy accidentally discovers a frozen treat on a stick, and grows up to bring an endearing classic to the world. Plus, a candy store owner radically re-invents ice cream and launches the first ever ice cream truck. |
Episode 12 - A Game of ChickenIn the 1970's, Ray Kroc is far ahead of the competition. But when a burger chain claiming to be king poaches his third-highest ranking executive, Don Smith, it's war. |
Episode 13 - When the Chips are DownAs C.E. Doolin and Herman Lay are out to prove the potential of the chips business in the 1950's, their success inspires one of the biggest companies in the world to enter the chip business. |
Episode 14 - The Rise of a RivalWhen candy company president Charles Guth gets shafted by a Cola salesman, he decides to buy a bankrupt rival company and go to war with the supplier who wronged him and its new CEO. |
Episode 15 - Gum SlingersWilliam Wrigley stumbles upon a new product that will kickstart a revolution across industries, but not before sparking a life-long rivalry. |
Episode 16 - Breakfast BaronsDr. John Kellogg and his brother start a revolution in breakfast, while rival C.W. Post takes direct aim at an empire of his own. And the creation of an iconic food comes at a cost. |
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