chirasul: Today in 1998, a Taco Bell employee named Edwin Grater, after a long and frustrating shift manually preparing cheese for nachos, went home and invented a prototype of the tool we now know as a cheese grater. Named after its inventor, it globally replaced a blocky wooden tool called a "cheese worser"

Today in 1998, a Taco Bell employee named Edwin Grater, after a long and frustrating shift manually preparing cheese for nachos, went home and invented a prototype of the tool we now know as a cheese grater. Named after its inventor, it globally replaced a blocky wooden tool called a "cheese worser"