I'm thinking that it would be fun to do another food-related list, or rather, a couple of them:
- Several people have suggested the inventors of foods in categories that I didn't have in mind when I used the terms "goodie maker", because to me, a "goodie" is something sweet, like a candy, cookie/biscuit, pastry, cake, etc. Nevertheless, people who invented other foods are also part of our lives, in a sense, and in any case, everybody matters on WikiTree, so I'm all in favour of a non-sweet list, although I think I'd call it "food inventors" or something along those lines.
- There are also lots more inventors of famous sweets, so I think we could easily do another "goodie maker" list (or perhaps even several).
I'm thinking primarily of people who invented something, and that thing got so popular that they went on to found a company which became a household name. (Think of Campbell's, Christie, Nutter Butter, Oreos, Swanson, etc. If you can discover the inventor(s) of Tim-Tams, you will automatically gain a place in the Genealogical Hall of Awesomeitude, just as soon as it's started.) But if you can discover the inventor of something which caught on, even if they didn't manage to build a company out of it, then that should count, too. (Think candied apples, chocolate chip cookies, ginger snaps, Nanaimo bars, snickerdoodles, whoopie pies, etc.)
For either list, I'd want between 12 and 20 profiles. (Fewer than 12 makes a challenge less interesting, I think, and also gives people fewer choices of profiles to work on. More than 20 means that I start to run into the message size limit once I've built a table with links and start to add people as they connect profiles.)
I'd also like to have some variety in countries. Part of my goal in doing these lists is to help increase WikiTree's coverage of countries other than the United States and the United Kingdom. I'm happy to include people from those countries, of course, but I'd like to have at least some people from other countries as well.
Going forward, I'm going to have lot less time to spend on WikiTree, so I'm going to need some help building these lists. So if you have a favourite food (sweet or savoury), and can find out who invented it, and then create a WikiTree profile for them (or if you find one already on WikiTree), please send me a private message with the WikiTree ID for that person, and I'll add it to my spreadsheet, and once I get at least a dozen in one category or the other, I'll post another challenge. (Please don't just post it here, because then somebody might connect them!)