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A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured him asking viewers, "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." While he recommended Grape Nuts over pine trees (including the oft-repeated quote that Grape Nuts' taste reminded him "of wild hickory nuts"), the commercials gained attention and fueled Gibbons's celebrity status.
He also starred in a series of Grape-Nuts cereal commercials that ran on television for 5 years. [7] His film roles include Eddie Macon's Run, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings and the cult horror film The Children. [3] [7]
Grape-Nuts is a brand of breakfast cereal made from flour, salt and dried yeast, developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Post's original product was baked as a rigid sheet, then broken into pieces and run through a coffee grinder.
The history of Grape Nuts cereal reads like an unusually droll Orwell novel. A suicidal cereal genius creates a food that's barely tasty and so bizarrely crunchy it's rumored to break consumers ...
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Post Grape-Nuts Original. Barbara’s Multigrain Spoonfuls Original. Oatmeal: This hot cereal is a cardiologist favorite. It contains fiber, vitamins and minerals, and studies associate it with ...
General Foods switched the Benny program from Jell-O to Grape-Nuts from 1942 to 1944, and it was The Grape Nuts Program Starring Jack Benny. Benny's longest-running sponsor, was the American Tobacco Company's Lucky Strike cigarettes, from 1944 to 1955, when the show was usually announced as The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny.
The brand is reimbursing Grape-Nuts fans who paid a premium for the cereal during the shortage. The Grape-Nuts shortage is over — and the company wants to pay back its biggest fans Skip to main ...