Fame and food in the Inland Empire

Cleveland has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fort Lauderdale is the headquarters for the International Swimming Hall of Fame. And Las Vegas claims the Pinball Hall of Fame. Not to be outdone, San Bernardino has entered the hall-of-fame wars with (drum roll, please): The Food Industry Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.

The FIEHP, which will be housed in a hallway at Cal State Bernardino, was created to honor Inland Empire residents who "helped shaped the nation's eating habits," reports the Riverside Press-Enterprise. Apparently, the IE has been a hotbed of food industry entrepreneurship, with chains from McDonald's to Del Taco having roots in the area.      

On Friday, the new hall of fame honored its first inductee, Jack Brown, chief executive and chairman of the Stater Bros., the San Bernardino-based supermarket chain.

"Other than pizza, the fast food industry started here," Brown said.

Maybe it's time for Riverside to consider an Indigestion Relief Hall of Fame.

-- Jesus Sanchez

Photo: Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times

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"Maybe it's time for Riverside to consider an Indigestion Relief Hall of Fame."
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LAME atteampt at humor. Nice to see the same apathy and ignorance towards the Inland Empire often displayed in the newspaper is making its way into the blogs. And the LA Times wonders why it has trouble selling newspapers in the IE.

The irony is that on the same day of this posting, an article (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tacotruck14apr14,0,4600263.story) on the Times's website says Los Angeles is looking at further restrictions on catering trucks -- aka, "roach coaches."

Thus, maybe your "Indigestion Relief Hall of Fame" actually belongs in Los Angeles (or better yet -- "Roach Coach Hall of Fame")...?