Bugs Bunny at 7. 5: Watch the First- Ever 'What's Up, Doc?' Moment. Watch The Circle Online Idigitaltimes. The usual gestation period for a rabbit is a month. But Bugs Bunny, the iconic cartoon character who turns 7. Monday, took a lot longer to come to life. Scroll down to read that story–but not before watching a clip from his first official appearance, in the 1.

Tex Avery cartoon A Wild Hare. The Oscar- nominated cartoon has all the classic Bugs favorites: outwitting Elmer Fudd, the signature ears and tail, the "What's up, Doc?"(Looney Tunes characters, names, and all related indicia are TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. You can watch the whole thing here.)Here's how the world's favorite cartoon rabbit came to be.

Animator Chuck Jones gave credit to Tex Avery for the character, but Warner Bros. There were cutesy rabbits and wacky rabbits, but those rabbits aren't Bugs. One distinction, Jones explained, was that Bugs' craziness always serves a purpose–in contrast to the unhinged Daffy Duck.)The Wild Hare bunny is uncredited, though that changed before the year was up.

Bugs was an instant star. By 1. 95. 4, TIME noted that he was more popular than Mickey Mouse. Mel Blanc, who voiced the character, later claimed that the name was his idea, saying that they were going to call the character Happy Rabbit, but that Blanc suggested naming him after animator Ben "Bugs" Hardaway. Alternatively, the name is sometimes traced to a sketch that designer Charles Thorson did on Hardaways' request, with the caption "Bugs' bunny"—as in, it was the bunny that Bugs had asked him to draw.)Though Virgil Ross was the animator on A Wild Hare, Chuck Jones became one of the more famous hands behind the Bugs Bunny magic.

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In 1. 97. 9, when The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie came out, TIME critic Richard Schickel noted that "it is possible that some day Animator Chuck Jones may come to be regarded as the American Bunuel" for the fact that Jones and the groundbreaking surrealist filmmaker so well understood the psychological underpinnings of comedy. As these images from the late artist's archives show, Bugs Bunny may have taken a long time to be born—but he sure has aged well. Read TIME's take on Warner cartoons' 5. TIME Vault: For Heaven's Sake! Grown Men! Slice of apple pie with ice cream, circa 1. H. Armstrong Roberts—Retrofile/Getty Images.

Pie. The "pye"—as it used to be spelled—is a venerable dish, which can be traced all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome. But those pastry- based dishes weren't the desserts we tend to think of today. Instead, they were overwhelmingly savory dishes. And for good reason: the crusts could help the contents of the pie (meat, typically) last a little longer than they would otherwise.

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Even apple pies didn't used to look the way they do now: There are few things as American as apple pie, as the saying goes, but like much of America’s pie tradition, the original apple pie recipes came from England. These pre- Revolutionary prototypes were made with unsweetened apples and encased in an inedible shell. Watch Somebody Help Me 2 Mediafire. Yet the apple pie did develop a following, and was first referenced in the year 1. Menaphon by poet R.

Greene: “Thy breath is like the steeme of apple pies.”Read the full story here: A Brief History of Pie. Eggnog. L. Mueller—MCT via Getty Images. Eggnog. Eggnog is centuries old, it turns out: While culinary historians debate its exact lineage, most agree eggnog originated from the early medieval Britain “posset,” a hot, milky, ale- like drink. By the 1. 3th century, monks were known to drink a posset with eggs and figs. Milk, eggs, and sherry were foods of the wealthy, so eggnog was often used in toasts to prosperity and good health. But it wasn't always associated with the end- of- year holiday season. That happened when the drink came to the Americas; even George Washington had his own signature recipe for eggnog, which by his time had begun to be made with rum.

Read the full story here: A Brief History of Eggnog. A plate of buttered waffles made in an Easywork waffle iron, in 1. Chaloner Woods—Getty Images.

The usual gestation period for a rabbit is a month. But Bugs Bunny, the iconic cartoon character who turns 75 on Monday, took a lot longer to come to life.

Waffles. This peculiarly patterned breakfast staple has a surprisingly long and illustrious history. The ancient Greeks used a tool kind of like a waffle iron to make cakes, and the treat came to the New World with some of its earliest European settlers: Waffles arrived in the U. S. with the Pilgrims, who sampled them in Holland en route to Massachusetts. Thomas Jefferson reportedly brought a waffle iron home from France around 1.

States. But it wasn't until the 1. California family combined instant waffle mix, electricity and ingenuity to come up with a way to mass- produce waffles. The eventual result, if you haven't already guessed, was Eggos. Read the full story here: A Brief History of Waffles. A 1. 93. 0s peanut butter jar label. Buyenlarge / ; Getty Images.

Peanut Butter. Peanut butter's origins are a bit mysterious. Contrary to the popular myth that George Washington Carter came up with the idea, there's evidence that some version of peanut butter was being made at least a couple decades before he published his 1.

How to Grow the Peanut and 1. Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption: Peanut butter’s true inventor is unknown, but Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has as good a claim to the title as anyone. In 1. 89. 5, the cereal pioneer patented a process for turning raw peanuts into a butter- like vegetarian health food that he fed to clients at his Battle Creek, Mich., sanatorium. The taste caught on, and in a few years, the spread had gone mainstream.

Read the full story here: A Brief History of Peanut Butter. Buffalo wings await contestants during Wing Bowl 1. Wachovia Center Feb. Philadelphia. William Thomas Cain—Getty Images.

Buffalo Wings. Unlike peanut butter, Buffalo wings have a an easily identified origin: Buffalo, N. Y. But what exactly happened to spark its birth is a little blurrier: There are at least two different versions of the Buffalo wing’s origin, although they contain the same basic facts. The first plate of wings was served in 1. Buffalo called the Anchor Bar.

The wings were the brainchild of Teressa Bellissimo, who covered them in her own special sauce and served them with a side of blue cheese and celery because that’s what she had available. Except for the occasional naysayer who claims to be the true inventor, these facts are reasonably undisputed. The rest of the story is anybody’s guess. In one version of the story, the dish was invented merely to get rid of a surplus of chicken wings; in another version, Bellissimo's son specifically asked for wings. Read the full story here: A Brief History of Buffalo Wings.

Children from the Scarborough School tapping syrup from a maple tree on financier Frank Vanderlip's estate. Scarborough, N. Y., March 1. Underwood Archives / Getty. Maple Syrup. The American maple- syrup industry can be traced back to the 1. Watch Paid In Full Online Hollywoodreporter on this page.

Early settlers in the U. S. Northeast and Canada learned about sugar maples from Native Americans. Various legends exist to explain the initial discovery.

One is that the chief of a tribe threw a tomahawk at a tree, sap ran out and his wife boiled venison in the liquid. Another version holds that Native Americans stumbled on sap running from a broken maple branch. The old system of making maple syrup—leaving buckets under taps, collecting sap, hauling the buckets to the sugar house to be heated—was eventually widely replaced by a method that used tubes and vacuums rather than buckets and gravity. Read the full story here: A Brief History of Maple Syrup. A waiter fills numerous salt and pepper shakers, 1.

Vintage Images / Getty Images. Salt. Salt isn't technically a food in itself, but it makes so many foods taste so much better that we couldn't leave it off the list.

Plus, its history is one of the longest, most interesting food stories out there, dating all the way back to the days when, as TIME put it in 1.