Donut, Meat and Fruity: 20 Strange Beauty Pageant Queens of Food Industry From the Mid-20th Century

Queen for a year! Guess this is what we call #foodporn nowadays.

Take a gander at a whole contingent of vintage beauty pageant queens– healthy young ladies who snapped up long coveted titles. Gosh, where are these pageants today?

1. Miss Lemon, 1920

2. Orange Queen, c.1930s

3. Miss Idaho Potato, 1935

4. Donut Week Queen, 1948

5. Donut Queen, 1948

6. Donut Queen, 1951

7. Donut Queen, c.1950s

8. Miss Food Industry Bettie Page, c.1951

9. Frankfurter Queen, 1952

10. Citrus Queen, 1955

11. Blueberry Queen, 1955

12. Sausage Queen, 1955

13. Sausage Queen, 1956

14. Donut Queen, 1957

15. Donut Queen, c.1957

16. Natural Pork Queen, 1961-62

17. Queen of Candy, 1964

18. Queen of Cuisine, 1964

19. Wine Queen, 1965

20. Nebraska Beef Queen, 1968