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Trix (cereal)

Trix is a General Mills fruit-flavored sweetened corn puff cereal introduced in 1954, the first fruit-flavored cereal, known for the Trix Rabbit mascot and the catchphrase "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!"

Troll doll

The troll doll, also known as the Good Luck Troll, is a plastic doll with wild up-combed hair created by Danish sculptor Thomas Dam in the 1950s.

Tropical Smoothie Cafe

Tropical Smoothie Cafe: American fast-casual smoothie and food franchise chain founded in Destin, Florida, in 1997 (first franchise Tallahassee, 1998), about 1,800 U.S. units in 44 states, ~$1M average unit volume, owned by Blackstone since 2024, CEO Max Wetzel.

Tropicana Products

Tropicana Products, also known as Tropicana Brands, is an American fruit-juice company founded by Anthony T. Rossi in Florida in 1947, best known for its chilled not-from-concentrate Pure Premium orange juice.

Trousers

Trousers, or pants, are garments covering each leg separately from waist to ankles. Oldest known pair, from Yanghai, China, is about 3,300 years old, made for horse riding; adopted by men generally after the French Revolution and by women widely only in the 20th century.

Truffle oil

Truffle oil is a flavored finishing oil, usually olive oil with synthetic 2,4-dithiapentane rather than real truffles; studies flag mislabeling, marker compounds DMSO and dimethyl sulfone, and heat-sensitive aroma.

Trump Steaks

Trump Steaks was a branded line of steaks, hamburgers, and sausage licensed by Donald Trump and sold through The Sharper Image and QVC, launched in May 2007.

Trump Winery

Trump Winery, near Charlottesville, Virginia, is the former Kluge Estate Winery bought at foreclosure auction in 2011 for $6.2 million; owned by Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, it is Virginia's largest vineyard with 227 acres of vinifera.

Trützschler

Trützschler (Trützschler Group SE) is a German family-owned manufacturer of textile machinery for spinning preparation, nonwovens, card clothing, and man-made fibers, founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mönchengladbach.

Trypillian culture pottery

Trypillian culture pottery is the hand-made ceramic ware of the Cucuteni–Trypillia communities of Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania, from about 5400 to 2700 BC, known for painted spirals.

Tsingtao Brewery (青岛啤酒)

Tsingtao Brewery (青岛啤酒) is a Chinese brewery founded in Qingdao in 1903 by German and British merchants, described as the world's fifth-largest beer producer and exported to over 100 countries.

Tsipouro

Tsipouro (τσίπουρο), also called tsikoudia in Crete, is a Greek grape pomace spirit, 36-45% ABV, made plain or with anise, protected as an EU geographical indication and drunk with meze.

Tsuen Tea (通圓)

Tsuen Tea (通圓, Tsuen-chaya), founded 1160 at Uji Bridge's east end in Uji, Kyoto, is Japan's oldest tea house, run by the 24th-generation Tsuen family, originally bridge guardians serving tea to travelers.

Tsujigahana

Tsujigahana is a Japanese textile dyeing technique from the 15th to early 17th centuries, based on tie-dye and combined with painting, embroidery, and gold-leaf imprinting.

Tteokbokki (떡볶이)

Tteokbokki (떡볶이), also romanized topokki or ddukbokki, is Korea's signature street food: garae-tteok rice cake sticks simmered in spicy-sweet gochujang sauce, descended from a soy-sauce royal court dish, born modern in Sindang-dong.

Tuareg Surf Shop

Tuareg Surf Shop is a surf equipment and apparel sport shop in Taghazout, Morocco, run by Jamal; it rents decent surf gear and sells custom shirts with local sayings, distinguishing it from other Taghazout surf shops.

Tuborg Brewery

Tuborg (Tuborgs Fabrikker), Danish brewery founded in Hellerup on 13 May 1873 by Philip W. Heyman; first beer 1875; merged with Carlsberg in 1970. Now Carlsberg's largest brand by volume, a bottom-fermented pilsner sold in about 50 countries.

Tula samovar

The Tula samovar (тульский самовар) is a charcoal-fueled water-heating vessel for tea made in Tula, Russia, which by 1850 had some 28 factories producing about 120,000 samovars a year.

Tullamore Dew

Tullamore Dew, also written Tullamore D.E.W., is a blended Irish whiskey first distilled in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1829 and named for the town.

Tunic

Tunic: a simple slip-on garment, sleeved or sleeveless, usually knee-length or longer and often belted. From Latin tunica; primary male garment in ancient Peru (uncu) and the basic garment of Rome, Egypt, and Byzantium.

Tunic (military)

The military tunic is a thigh-length uniform coat that replaced the waist-length coatee in most armies from the mid-19th century; introduced in the British Army in 1855 during the Crimean War, in scarlet, khaki, and olive drab patterns.

Tunisian crochet

Tunisian crochet, also called Afghan crochet or tricot-crochet, is a hook technique where a forward pass picks loops onto a long hook and a return pass works them off, making dense, low-stretch fabric; documented in Europe from the 1850s, origin uncertain.

Tunupa

Tunupa, also spelled Thunupa, is an Andean deity and civilizing hero of the southern highlands, associated with thunder, lightning, volcanoes, fire, and water and tied to Aymara communities.

Tupilak

In Greenlandic Inuit belief, a tupilak was a malevolent spirit secretly created to harm an enemy, later carved in bone, tooth, or stone as a major Greenlandic art form.

Tupperware

Tupperware: airtight polyethylene food containers invented by Earl S. Tupper in the 1940s and made famous by Brownie Wise's home-party direct selling; sold to Rexall in 1958, later Tupperware Brands, which filed Chapter 11 in 2024.

Turban

Turban: a long strip of cloth wrapped around the head, also called dastar, pagri, or ʿamāma. Worn for over 4,000 years from Mesopotamia (2350 BC sculpture) across Asia and Africa; central to Sikh identity since Guru Gobind Singh's Khalsa, once universal Muslim male headgear, later banned in Turkey (1925) and Iran.

Turducken

Turducken: a deboned chicken stuffed inside a deboned duck inside a deboned turkey, also called a three-bird roast; associated with Louisiana Cajun cooking, Paul Prudhomme, Hebert's Specialty Meats, John Madden, and USDA 165 °F cooking guidance.

Turkish coffee

Turkish coffee (Türk kahvesi) is a brewing method, not a bean: finely ground coffee boiled unfiltered in a cezve, served with foam and settled grounds. UNESCO-inscribed 2013; distinctive phytochemical profile; studied for cardiovascular effects.

Turkish cuisine

Turkish cuisine (Türk mutfağı) is Turkey's culinary tradition, formed from Central Asian meat-and-dairy roots, Anatolian grains, and Mediterranean produce, refined in Seljuk and Ottoman kitchens, with regional variety, sofra table culture, and UNESCO-listed keşkek and Turkish coffee.

Turkish delight

Turkish delight (lokum, from rahat-ül hulküm) is a starch-and-sugar jelly confection from Ottoman cuisine, codified in Turkey with moisture ≤16% and sugar ≥80%, made famous by Hacı Bekir and exported to Europe as Turkish delight.