Corn oil is one of the most frequently used vegetable oils for frying, baking and general food processing. As this 1928 ad for Mazola corn oil attests, French fries were an occasional home cooked item and not the ubiquitous fat-filled fast food of today. (HFHA Coll.)

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Many people, especially children, seem to crave sweets. Here an African-American child from the 1930's chews on a raw sugarcane stem. Many of the world's children still get their sweets from the source, since refined sugar candies are expensive and frequently unavailable. Children in the arid lands of the date palm eat dates as their daily sweet. Children in parts of Africa may have wild honey from time to time. (HFHA Coll.)