Michel Aubrecht at Blog, or Die reminded me of Washington Crisps, a breakfast cereal sold a century ago in the midst of the Colonial Revival.Some Washington Crisps advertisements, such as the one Aubrecht highlighted from 1912, explicitly linked the cereal to George Washington’s character—and of course the character of the nation and its breakfast-eating children.
Other ads used the first President in other ways, as in a 1911 entry from the Washington (D.C.) Herald:
Washington is the biggest man in the history of this country.And some ads didn’t mention the cereal’s namesake at all.
WASHINGTON CRISPS
(Best Quality Corn Flakes Toasted)
is the biggest 10c. package in the history of the food business. And it’s “D-E-E-E-LICIOUS!”
...or did the Washington Crisps KNOCK your teeth out, like George's ? I'd heard that GW had lost most of his teeth at an early age (even by the standards of the 18th century) by cracking walnuts with his teeth. JL - do you know if this is a fact? (Here we go with Washington's teeth again!).
ReplyDeleteIn all that I've read about Washington's teeth, which were really bad, I never heard that the problem was walnuts. He had so many problems for so long it seems likely there was some systemic problem, like genetics or disease, rather than an injury of any sort.
ReplyDeleteThe revolution will not only be televised, it will have commercials...
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