CULTURETECHLENSBanana pudding
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Combined Graph record U-01115 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0715. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Banana pudding is the layered dessert of vanilla wafers, bananas, and pudding/custard: Boston Magazine's timeline (drawing on Southern Living barbecue editor Robert Moss) documents Nabisco's vanilla wafers (1901), the banana pudding recipe printed on Vanilla Wafer boxes in the 1940s, and the dessert being viewed as a Southern delicacy by 1959, with over 80% of printed references from Southern newspapers by the 1980s. Stored key ingredients (bananas, vanilla wafers, custard) established.
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Banana pudding is the layered dessert of vanilla wafers, bananas, and pudding/custard: Boston Magazine's timeline (drawing on Southern Living barbecue editor Robert Moss) documents Nabisco's vanilla wafers (1901), the banana pudding recipe printed on Vanilla Wafer boxes in the 1940s, and the dessert being viewed as a Southern delicacy by 1959, with over 80% of printed references from Southern newspapers by the 1980s. Stored key ingredients (bananas, vanilla wafers, custard) established.
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- Work type: dish
- Category: desserts
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- https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2016/08/07/banana-pudding-barbecue-timeline/ (verification source · master store)
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Banana pudding is the layered dessert of vanilla wafers, bananas, and pudding/custard: Boston Magazine's timeline (drawing on Southern Living barbecue editor Robert Moss) documents Nabisco's vanilla wafers (1901), the banana pudding recipe printed on Vanilla Wafer boxes in the 1940s, and the dessert being viewed as a Southern delicacy by 1959, with over 80% of printed references from Southern newspapers by the 1980s. Stored key ingredients (bananas, vanilla wafers, custard) established.
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