Aunt Jemima
The advertising image of Aunt Jemima was born at the 1893 World Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, Illinois, with ex-slave Nancy Green's promotion of inventor Charles Rutt's pancake mix. Mor...
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In the late 1880's in Missouri two men named Chris L. Rutt and Charles G. Underwood created a revolutionary instant pancake flour mix. They created the trademark after visiting a theater and seeing wo...
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Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., the privately held owner of Duncan Hines baking mixes, Hungry Man and Swanson frozen dinners and Vlasic pickles, has agreed to be acquired by a group led by the buyout sp...
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Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., the privately held owner of Duncan Hines baking mixes, Hungry Man and Swanson frozen dinners and Vlasic pickles, has agreed to be acquired by a group led by the buyout sp...
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Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel...
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Two dozen Ku Klux Klan members held a downtown rally Saturday in this usually quiet dairy community to show support for college students who threw a party that was criticized for being racist.Three...
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The talking grandmother-shaped syrup bottle is back on television ads for Mrs. Butterworth's. The bespectacled Vlasic stork is hawking pickles again, too.Boxes of Swanson TV dinners this year went ...
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It looks like a work by Salvador Dalí: A thick piece of shiny orange satin cloth is neatly folded onto one end of a long white plate. It’s sprinkled with dark crumbs and large, transluce...
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There is no canned spaghetti in the Tribeca kitchen where Anna Boiardi entertains her guests. The granddaughter of Mario Boiardi—who together with his brother Hector founded the now-iconic pr...
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Aunt Jemima
Aunt Jemima's Advertising Campaign from the Late 19th to the Late 20th Century
Pinnacle Foods agrees to buyout
