The real Chef Boyardee

Chef Boyardee was a real man whose name was Ettore (Hector) Boiardi. He was an immigrant to the US from Italy. He was head chef at the New York Plaza Hotel and catered a presidential wedding reception. His main claim to fame was his pasta sauce which was in such high demand at his restaurant that he set up a factory to make it. He marketed it under the name Chef Boy-Ar-Dee.

He eventually sold out to American Home Foods for tidy sum.

And to think that all this time I thought that Chef Boyardee was as fictitious as Aunt Jemima. I still won't eat that stuff though. I bet he's turn in his grave to see what it's become.