In 1916, Clarence Birdseye perfected the flash-freezing process (and Birds Eye potato puffs).

FORBES: 12 Rules For Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

Roughly 20 years later, Clarence Birdseye revolutionized the distribution process by inventing a technique to make produce largely distributable via the railroad.

FORBES: A New Era -- the Era of the Customer

Clarence Birdseye, who, in the 1920s, developed techniques for flash freezing food.

ECONOMIST: Low temperatures

One who did was a young man named Clarence Birdseye, who spent four years on a fur-trading expedition that began a century ago in 1912.

FORBES: Weak Signals, Strong Ideas

If America hadn't gone to war, a man named Birdseye wouldn't have figured out he could preserve food for our troops by flash freezing it in cold water.

NPR: Linda Ellerbee, Taking 'Big Bites'

The 810 is compatible with optional detailed street or TOPO maps including BirdsEye Satellite Imagery, so it can guide cyclists for touring, commuting or extended activities where they might need onboard maps and navigation.

ENGADGET: Edge 510 and 810 cycling computers appear on Garmin's web store (update: hands-on photos)

Around our house, when not infected by the Birdseye plague, real food often meant chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, sugar peas, field peas, black-eyed peas, lima beans, green beans, all greens, ambrosia, okra, corn, tomato aspic, squash casseroles, pot roast, fried fish, chicken and dumplings, hot rolls, biscuits, cornbread, cakes, pies, fudge, divinity and Mama's homemade vegetable soup, which was world famous in our family.

NPR: Linda Ellerbee, Taking 'Big Bites'