Was Chef Boyardee a real italian chef or was he made up?

Question

His food tastes nothing like the italian food I eat

Answer 1

He was real and according to my husband, his mother knew him and lived on his street.

Answer 2

Yes he was a real chef, his last name is spelled Boiarde or something like that, not boyardee, his time was in the early 1900's if I'm thinking right, might be wrong on the time period but not the guy being an italian chef

Answer 3

Chef Boyardee is a authentic chef, no longer Italian. American. His very last call change into boyardee, his dad immigrated from Europe. the discovery channel and the nutrition community has had some shows about him

Answer 4

He was a real chef.... At least that's what they said on the History Channel. As for being Italian, I don't know. As for the food tasting like Italian, well, hardly anything in this country taste like the country it's suppose to come from--including pizza.

Answer 5

I have been eating Chef Boyardee since I was a kid.
It is aweful at best. There was a time when convenience took priority over taste. Moms and Dads fed this to kids for its simplicity.
Taste was not important because parents didn't eat it.

Answer 6

Hector Boiardi (October 22, 1897 - June 21, 1985), better known as "Chef Boyardee," was an Italian-born chef who became famous for his eponymous franchise of food products. He was a short order cook in Cleveland, Ohio where he first canned his spaghetti.

Answer 7

Was Aunt Jemima a real mammy or a Hollywood stunt? Her pancakes don't taste anything like what my mammy cooked. She looks like Betty Crocker now days. Chef Boyardee sucks. Always did. If he was a real Chef he should have been executed.

Answer 8

He is a real guy, Boyardee is the way his name sounded. In fact, the real Mr. Boiardie was awarded the Confression Medal of Freedom after WW2. He was awarded to thank him for the conrtibution he made to the troops of quality food that was easy to carry and safe to eat. And I am serious.

Answer 9

That was a real person although he changed the spelling of his name to make it easier for people to pronounce. I saw on the History Channel how he had a restaurant and people would ask for spaghetti and sauce to take home and cokk themselves so he started packaging spaghetti kits. A lot of the canned crap they sell now was developed by the company later.

Answer 10

He was indeed a real person, born Hector Boiardi in northern Italy in 1898. Young Hector was a culinary savant who reportedly worked in restaurant kitchens at the tender age of eleven before immigrating to America and joining his brother in New York at age seventeen. His brother's employment as a waiter at the prestigious Plaza Hotel helped gain young Hector entrée to the Plaza's kitchen, and over the next several years Boiardi whipped up his creations for renowned hotel kitchens New York, West Virginia, and finally Cleveland, where he opened his own restaurant, Il Giardino d’Italia.

Boiardi's spaghetti sauce soon became famous throughout Cleveland, and his restaurant patrons began asking him for extra portions of sauce to take home with them, which he doled out in milk bottles. Demand for his spaghetti sauce grew so large that he started producing it in an adjacent loft and selling it with dry pasta and packets of his special cheese. Hector Boiardi later plunged into full-time pasta making, adopted the (for Americans) easier-to-spell "Boyardee" version of his name, and moved his operations to Pennsylvania before eventually merging with American Home Foods (now International Home Foods), with whom he worked until his death in 1985.

Answer 11

Of course not. He's one of the Frances people

Boyardee sounds ITALIAN to you!