Roasted Onions in Tin Foil

The first use of aluminum foil in the U.S. was for identification leg bands for racing pigeons, sometime around 1913 - 1914. No predictions of future volume sales for foil have been found in marketing histories of the time

Cheesy Potato Packet

Aluminum foil is produced by rolling sheet ingots cast from molten aluminum, then re-rolling on sheet and foil rolling mills to the desired thickness, or by continuously casting and cold rolling.