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Results: Baking With Duncan Hines And Betty Crocker -- Only One Of Them Actually Existed

Published on 02/13/2017
By: Harriet56
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We all grew up knowing these famous brand namesakes. Some of them are still around to this day. And some of them were actually based on real people. The others were made up although some people did not realize that. Here are some that actually were real people. How many of these did you know actually existed?
We all grew up knowing these famous brand namesakes. Some of them are still around to this day. And some of them were actually based on real people. The others were made up although some people did not realize that. Here are some that actually were real people. How many of these did you know actually existed?
Dr. Scholl -- William Mathias Scholl, a Chicago podiatrist, invented an arch support in 1904 and formed Dr. Scholl's two years later. He continued to practice medicine while running the company until 1946, then focused on his role as chief executive until his death in 1968.. Over the years, Scholl developed more than 1,000 foot-care products
38%
694 votes
Colonel Sanders -- Harlan Sanders began serving steaks, country ham and later fried chicken at a Shell station that he ran in Kentucky during the Great Depression. He received the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel in 1950, and the first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opened in 1952.
61%
1126 votes
Duncan Hines -- In 1935 Hines published Adventures in Good Eating, a paperback in which he recommended restaurants that he and his wife had visited while traveling around the country. In 1952 he started selling bread under the Duncan Hines name. Cake mixes were introduced soon afterward.
27%
498 votes
Sara Lee --A baker named Charles Lubin named a cheesecake after his eight-year-old daughter, Sara Lee, who eventually became a prominent philanthropist. She never took up baking.
35%
636 votes
Estée Lauder -- Born Josephine Esther Mentzer in New York City to a Hungarian beauty and a Czech businessman, Esty was trained early in the art of face creams by her chemist uncle—some of her earliest memories were of her mother's grooming rituals. She married her first beau, Joseph Lauter, and wore lipstick for the first time at her wedding.
39%
722 votes
Did not know they were real
26%
470 votes
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Here are a few more famous brand namesakes that were real people. How many did you know were real?
Here are a few more famous brand namesakes that were real people. How many did you know were real?
Chef Boyardee -- An Italian immigrant, Chef Ettore Boiardi had a restaurant in Cleveland. When he began selling jars and cans of his tomato sauce, he chose to do so under a name that Americans could pronounce more easily: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee (later changed to Chef Boyardee)
39%
708 votes
Captain Morgan -- Sir Henry Morgan was a Welsh sailor who raided Spanish ships and towns in the Caribbean during the 17th century. He was later appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.
31%
563 votes
Oscar Mayer -- The 24-year-old German immigrant opened a butcher and sausage-making shop in Chicago in 1883 with his brother Gottfried. The Mayer family owned the Oscar Mayer company for nearly a century before finally selling it to General Foods in 1981.
32%
586 votes
Famous Amos -- As a talent agent at William Morris, Wally Amos used to send clients packages of his homemade chocolate chip cookies. He opened the first Famous Amos cookie shop in Los Angeles in 1975. Just seven years later the cookie brand's revenues had reached $2 billion.
31%
571 votes
Jimmy Dean -- The country singer (Big Bad John) and TV personality (The Jimmy Dean Show) started the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company in 1969 with his brother Don. They sold the company to Sara Lee in 1984 for $80 million, and Jimmy bought a 107-foot yacht (called Big Bad John).
48%
873 votes
Did not know they were real
30%
543 votes
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Here are a few more brand namesakes that are based on real people. How many did you know about?
Here are a few more brand namesakes that are based on real people. How many did you know about?
Wendy's pig-tailed girl mascot -- The mascot for the restaurant chain is based on Melinda Thomas, the daughter of Wendy's founder R. David Thomas.
61%
1121 votes
The Sun-Maid Woman -- She was based off the image of a woman named Lorraine Collett Petersen, a 17-year-old girl from Missouri who was working as a seeder, packer, and promoter for a subsidiary of the Sun-Maid company in Fresno. In 1910, she was stopped in the middle of drying her hair and was asked to hold a basket tray of grapes for a watercolor portrait.
15%
274 votes
Little Debby -- The girl on the popular brand of chocolate snacks was based on a real girl named Debbie, daughter of O.D. McKee. McKee Foods still owns Little Debbie today.
27%
493 votes
Ronald McDonald -- He's based on a clown character played by the still-living Willard Scott.
28%
504 votes
Uncle Ben's -- Uncle Ben was a black Texan rice farmer whose crop continuously won awards for its outstanding quality. In 1932, German and British chemists Erich Huzenlaub and Francis Heron Rogers refined a process to make more nutritious parboiled rice and started the Converted Rice Company. They took Ben's name, leveraged his reputation, and named their product after him. The two based the mascot's likeness on a Chicago maitre d' named Frank Brown.
27%
502 votes
Did not know any of these were real
25%
465 votes
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