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Post by starfire on Feb 23, 2006 0:28:06 GMT -5
Yes, there really was a Duncan Hines, a traveling salesman who self-published a restaurant guide as a Christmas present for his friends in 1935.
The positive response led Hines to expend the guide and publish it as a general-market paperback.
Eventually, his “Adventures In Good Eating” became so popular that, in 1948, Procter & Gamble asked him to lend his name to a line of convenience cake mixes.
The rest is history
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Post by dlangland on Feb 23, 2006 10:01:19 GMT -5
That is interesting, Starfire. Deb  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2006 11:19:58 GMT -5
I always thought (don't know why, but I did) that it was the last name of two people, like Hewlett Packard or something. *rubs hands together* I can't wait for this to come up on Jeopardy! DH and I love to watch and shout out the answers. Unfortunately we're both usually wrong AND we never hear the right answer because we're both talking over each other. It's good fun, though.  /VM |
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Post by painteddaisy on Feb 23, 2006 20:48:46 GMT -5
Geesh I'm usually smokin' at Jeapordy except, when I am, nobody's around  I totally smoked the whole board once in "Wicca and the dark arts" !~ THE WHOLE BOARD ! I would have been rich... Okay enough thread hijacking for me.... I heard that Aunt Jemima wasn't actually a real person ~ is that true I wonder? |
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Post by starfire on Feb 23, 2006 23:46:26 GMT -5
AUNT JEMIMA
Chris Rutt and Charles Underwood purchased the Pearl Milling Company in 1889, and came up with the novel idea of creating a ready-mixed pancake flour.* Rutt named it for a catchy tune called 'Aunt Jemima' which he had recently heard in a vaudeville show. Rutt and Underwood went broke in 1890, and sold the formula for Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix to the R.T. Davis Milling Company. Davis looked for a woman to represent the product, and hired an African American woman named Nancy Green from Chicago, Illinois.
At the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago, Davis made an all-out effort to promote the new pancake mix, and built the world's largest flour barrel. 'Aunt Jemima' (Nancy Green) demonstrated how to use the new mix, and the exhibit was so popular, police had to control the crowds at the Aunt Jemima booth. Nancy Green was awarded a medal and proclaimed 'Pancake Queen' by the Fair officials. Soon signed to a lifetime contract by Davis, Green was a hit all across the country, as she toured demonstrating the new Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix, and by 1910 it was available nationally. She played the part of Aunt Jemima until her death on September 24, 1923 (she died in a car accident).
Aunt Jemima Mills were purchased in 1925 by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago.
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Post by painteddaisy on Feb 24, 2006 9:05:35 GMT -5
That's facinating! ;D Thanks Starfire! |
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Post by dlangland on Feb 24, 2006 19:23:56 GMT -5
I always thought Betty Crocker was a real lady, but I believe I read that is just a made up name??? Deb |
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Post by Kathy on Feb 24, 2006 19:36:54 GMT -5
Q: Who was Betty Crocker?
A: One of the best-known women of the interwar years—Betty Crocker—never existed.
The Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis, one of the six big milling companies that merged into General Mills in 1928, received thousands of requests each year in the late 1910s and early 1920s for answers to baking questions. In 1921, managers decided that it would be more intimate to sign the responses personally; they combined the last name of a retired company executive, William Crocker, with the first name “Betty,” which was thought of as “warm and friendly.” The signature came from a secretary, who won a contest among female employees. (The same signature still appears on Betty Crocker products.)
In 1924, Betty Crocker acquired a voice with the radio debut of the nation’s first cooking show, which featured thirteen different actresses working from radio stations across the country. Later it became a national broadcast, The Betty Crocker School of the Air, which ran for twenty-four years.
Finally, in 1936 Betty Crocker got a face. Artist Neysa McMein brought together all the women in the company’s Home Service Department and “blended their features into an official likeness.” The widely circulated portrait reinforced the popular belief that Betty Crocker was a real woman. One public opinion poll rated her as the second most famous woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt.
Over the next seventy-five years, her face has changed seven times: she became younger in 1955; she became a “professional” woman in 1980; and in 1996 she became multicultural, acquiring a slightly darker and more “ethnic” look.
P.S. Sara Lee is a real person!
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Post by dlangland on Feb 24, 2006 20:04:17 GMT -5
Woah, you are good Kathy. I think I am unintentionally turning this into a Game-Show type thing  , but Mrs. Butterworth popped in my head, also. Deb |
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Post by auntieemu on Feb 24, 2006 21:25:58 GMT -5
Mrs. Butterworth - Not a real person either. The grandma-shaped bottle with its label doubling as an apron that holds the golden goodness of Mrs. Butterworth's pancake syrup. The TV commercials portray Mrs. Butterworth as a lovely elderly woman who is as sweet as the syrup inside her bottle.
The voice of Mrs. Butterworth in the TV commercials was provided by Mary Kay Bergman, an actress and Los Angeles native who sadly, took her own life at age 39 on Thursday November 11th, 1999.
The stop-motion animation sequences (for example, the scenes of Mrs. Butterworth winking her eye) were supplied by David Allen who later died from cancer on Monday August 16th, 1999 at age 54. His professional work included animation for television series and commercials such as GUMBY, DAVEY AND GOLIATH, the Pillsbury Doughboy, and The Planter's Peanuts mascot.
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