# Who stole your food creations?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-stole-your-food-creations/164748>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 28, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-stole-your-food-creations/164748 "2003-03-28T09:07:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![WhetherMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@WhetherMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhetherMan)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-stole-your-food-creations/164748/1 "2003-03-28T09:07:46Z")

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What food creations did you invent before you later saw them on the shelves created by some conglomerate? My mom created vinegar/Bay Seasoning Potato Chips long before they came on the market. Who stole your idea?

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**Author:** ![brainfizz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@brainfizz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainfizz)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-stole-your-food-creations/164748/2 "2003-03-28T12:26:54Z")

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Someone stole my idea for pre-sliced bread! Darn it!  
That was the best idea since… umm… since…  
(at least nobody’s tried my Malibu and Milk combo yet…)

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-stole-your-food-creations/164748/3 "2003-03-28T12:48:47Z")

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I was mixing honey and brown mustard for years before it started appearing everywhere.

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**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-stole-your-food-creations/164748/4 "2003-03-28T15:44:52Z")

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I was making my own version of comfort food (pasta with butter, parmesan cheese and herbs) and thought, “I wish there was some kind of ‘pasta shake’ seasoning in a jar you could just shake over buttered noodles.” A couple years later, Kraft marketed a couple versions of this. THEIR version was crap, of course, being composed of powdered cheese and tasteless seasonings and WAY too much salt. But it was MY idea.