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Franco-American is a brand name of the Campbell Soup Company.
The original Franco-American Food Company was founded by Alphonse Biardot, who immigrated to the United States from France in 1880. In 1886, he and his two sons opened a commercial kitchen in Jersey City, New Jersey, featuring the foods of his native country. The company proved a success, particularly with its line of canned soup and pasta, and it was acquired by Campbell's in 1915. The Franco-American name was phased out over the next two decades for soup products and in the late 1990s for pasta products. However their product line was still sufficient to continue advertising well into the 1970s, with Barry Manilow performing their jingle "Who Can? Franco Ameri-Can". On November 18, 2004, Campbell's announced it was discontinuing the name for pasta products in favor of its own, "to boost sales of what had been Franco-American's canned SpaghettiOs, RavioliOs and regular spaghetti, along with beef, chicken and turkey gravy varieties sold in cans and jars."
As of 2008, the Campbell Soup Company continues to sell gravy under the Franco-American name, along with a small line of condensed soups that appear to be similar to soups sold under the Campbell's brand. As of December 2008, it appears that the soup line has been discontinued, but that the gravy line remains.
As of October 2009, it appears that the Franco-American brand included at least one pasta-based product—a “Spaghetti & Meatballs” product, at least for the Canadian market.
Franco-American may refer to:
- Franco-American (also called French American), American people of French or French Canadian descent
- Franco-American (brand), a brand name of the Campbell Soup Company
Usage examples of "franco-american".
Ethnic Survival in a New England Mill Town: The Franco-Americans of Biddeford, Maine by Michael Guignard.
The Remillards are members of that New England ethnic group, descended from French-Canadians, who are variously called Franco-American, Canado-AmIricaine, or more simply Canuck.
It is of French origin, and the Remillards are a sizable family who originally were colonists in Quebec and later migrated to the northeastern United States, where there was a large but unobtrusive Franco-American population.
It is indeed from that group, especially the northeastern Franco-Americans, that we expect the largest numbers of natural operants to be born during this critical pre-Intervention phase of proctorship.