General Mills: "The Big G"

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  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 62

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 7 месяцев назад +2

    Adelaide Hawley appeared as "Betty Crocker" in their commercials and TV shows from 1949 through the early 1960's.

  • @bonde1958
    @bonde1958 8 лет назад +4

    Thank you for a great trip into the historical archives, truly a great company.

  • @sidv192
    @sidv192 3 года назад +4

    Awesome company from the heartland of America, responsible for Mom's apple pie since 1866

  • @Jupe367
    @Jupe367 5 лет назад +20

    If only SEARS could follow their business concept -- Adapt to change

    • @gerrynightingale9045
      @gerrynightingale9045 5 лет назад +3

      **Eddie Lampert and his cohorts have systematically 'robbed/raped/pillaged/and
      burned 'Sears' since day-one of his 'Chairmanship'...the Sears business model was trusted and proven for 126-years but could not survive deliberate cancer
      from inside.

    • @Jupe367
      @Jupe367 5 лет назад +1

      I hope Sears can rebound back but now it is a miracle if that ever happens.

  • @gman3000
    @gman3000 2 года назад +4

    Little known fact: General Mills partnered with DiC to syndicate the Dennis the Menace animated series and the original Sailor Moon english dub.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 7 месяцев назад +1

      Their advertising agency, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, syndicated those series through "DFS Program Exchange" {which also syndicated repeats of "ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS", "THE BULLWINKLE SHOW", "TENNESSEE TUXEDO AND HIS TALES", "THE UNDERDOG SHOW", et. al.}...and featured two minutes of General Mills advertisng (mostly their cereals) per episode. And those series were distributed to local stations FREE, on a barter basis [they scheduled the shows and commercials, and got the other four minutes per episode to sell to their own advertisers, keeping the profits].

  • @doloreshuntoon7698
    @doloreshuntoon7698 7 лет назад +2

    Thanks again and congratulations once again!

  • @gregsells8549
    @gregsells8549 4 месяца назад

    General Mills, as Washburn-Crosby Co., founded radio station WCCO in Minneapolis. The Wheaties Quartet and Betty Crocker debuted over WCCO's air, and WCCO would become part of the CBS family along with WCCO-TV. WCCO Radio was long one of the highest-rated stations in America. Wheaties sponsored many baseball broadcasts during the Golden Age of Radio across the country. The Fun Group encompassed brands such as Kenner (Spirograph, Easy Bake Oven, Star Wars toys) and Parker Bros. (Monopoly, Clue, Nerf) and was sold to Hasbro, which united Parker Bros. with rival Milton-Bradley (Battleship, Candy Land, The Game of Life).

  • @brucejackstone7153
    @brucejackstone7153 2 года назад

    Ah, GENERAL MILLS one of my favorite companies !

  • @FarmerSteveO
    @FarmerSteveO 2 года назад

    What a great bit of American history!

  • @rickprobst5757
    @rickprobst5757 4 года назад +2

    so Basically General Mills owns 99 percent of the food on store shelves

  • @ganymedeETC
    @ganymedeETC 5 лет назад

    Really inspired me ......the history of the BIG 'M' ........Awesome movie.

  • @j.m.r.f6286
    @j.m.r.f6286 3 года назад

    Thank you, gracia's.

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 7 месяцев назад

    1:16- That competitor was QUAKER OATS, who claimed they had the exclusive rights to use the word "oats" as a trademark. A lawsuit was finally avoided when "Cheerioats" became *"CHEERIOS"* in 1945.

  • @rom5285
    @rom5285 4 года назад +1

    There may be more to the story here. The original Betty Crocker was a child. This was not her real name but was given that name by her uncle, I believe. Her likeness was used on packaging, and if I recall the information correctly, it was flour. I'm a little hazy on details, but I actually met "Betty Crocker" and she related the story of her uncle and the use of her likeness and the assumed name. She described where she lived in Yankton, South Dakota. I talked with her about 30 years ago and she said she was 75 years old. I wonder if General Mills has any knowledge of this history? I am quite sure that this woman's story was real. Unfortunately, I met her only once and my conversation with her was fairly brief. Others in her community whom I trusted, verified her story.

  • @wdh47211
    @wdh47211 8 лет назад +10

    That was Maureen McCormick with the Pilsbury Dough boy.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 7 месяцев назад

      1966. Paul Frees was the original voice of the "Doughboy".

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 7 месяцев назад

    0:37- Green Giant was originally a product of the MInnesota Valley Canning Company {created in 1903}- which changed its name to Green Giant in 1950. Pillsbury merged with it in 1999......and General Mills acquired Pillsbury in 2001.

  • @marccollier3166
    @marccollier3166 5 лет назад +1

    The guy giving the tour is the Big G.

  • @shariffeni3735
    @shariffeni3735 Год назад

    So sweet company like its ❤

  • @csr326
    @csr326 4 года назад +3

    $500 says the next Betty Crocker will be a minority.

    • @sidv192
      @sidv192 3 года назад

      Betty has dementia now and couldn't pop a tart so its Yolanda Crocker and flatbread

  • @alfababy7038
    @alfababy7038 6 лет назад +5

    General mills .....free advertising on CBS

    • @WilliamJohnson-tf1ut
      @WilliamJohnson-tf1ut 5 лет назад +2

      They probably the same company.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 7 месяцев назад

      General Mills "buys" ad time on all the networks- and every other media platform these days.

  • @jehovahhohenzollern3329
    @jehovahhohenzollern3329 3 года назад +1

    *The original General Mills, Inc. 1985 Apple IIe Floppy Disk with 20 Cereal keyboard languages including Lucky Charms Hebrew and New Arabia was given to the U.S. Navy and went to Israel.*

  • @PHILIPWATSON82
    @PHILIPWATSON82 5 лет назад

    BRING GENERAL MILLS TO THE UK PLEASE 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧

    • @drh2098
      @drh2098 4 года назад

      PHILIP WATSON 5 Dang you guys don’t have those cereals? Wow General Mills cereals are the best. If I were to go to the grocery store and pick every cereal I wanted from the shelf, the majority of them would be from General Mills. The only exception is Post’s Honey Bunches of Oats.

    • @scrapper276
      @scrapper276 3 года назад

      I like Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies,and chocolate flakes and Frosted Flakes.

    • @scrapper276
      @scrapper276 3 года назад

      Apple Jack’s is really good too along with fruit loops.

  • @michaelennen3432
    @michaelennen3432 5 лет назад

    It's sort of interesting that the Ox Eyes recipe in the old Betty Crocker cook book did not involve actual Ox Eyes (as the archivist made a point of saying "They used everything", after showing the brains recipe). It's just an egg inside of toast.

  • @fiordalinarodriguez5677
    @fiordalinarodriguez5677 7 лет назад +1

    very good product that diferent combination good flavors good bless you

  • @audircampelo2546
    @audircampelo2546 6 лет назад

    Tem muita história, grande G. Mills.

  • @TriPham-sn9jj
    @TriPham-sn9jj Год назад

    Pancake mini , french toast mini , smash potatoes are may be great deal for navy contract

  • @5dancingisraelis535
    @5dancingisraelis535 5 лет назад

    I like how they say “oooh OX EYES” but it has nothing to do with oxen or their orbitals

  • @kondapraveenreddy
    @kondapraveenreddy 5 лет назад

    These products are very tasty and healthy

  • @HuzzatIslam-k3f
    @HuzzatIslam-k3f Год назад

    I need to know if GM hires a packaging worker from Bangladesh outside of the USA ?

  • @h.a.6790
    @h.a.6790 3 года назад

    What about their military involvement..

  • @mjsmcd
    @mjsmcd 3 года назад

    i cant find wheaties

  • @gypsyrain369
    @gypsyrain369 4 года назад +1

    Where do GMO'S fit in ?????

  • @drh2098
    @drh2098 4 года назад +1

    6:16 😦

  • @jasjotkaur127
    @jasjotkaur127 7 лет назад

    How and from where in india I get cheerious whole grain oats

  • @teldatruth2718
    @teldatruth2718 6 лет назад +2

    The big "G" with the big "TSP" Tri Sodium Phosphate (pain thinner/grease cutter) in their cereal.

    • @nirv
      @nirv 6 лет назад +6

      I wouldn't eat an iron bar but you have iron in your blood as I type this. You have calcium in your bones. You have nitrogen in your DNA. Hi dude. Humans are made out of the stuff of this Universe. I don't believe a trace amount of TSP is deadly or else we'd be dropping like *dialtone*

  • @smug8567
    @smug8567 5 лет назад +1

    I assure you, even with the beat up furniture and items in there, it is a "Safe House" and you probably were "seen". Safe houses like this are typically looking a bit shabby, unclean and "abandoned". But there in lies the excellent lie. A great camouflaged house that does not seem to be "secure". The problem with young people nowadays, is that they don't think of the unlikely, they don't ask questions when they see something.

  • @PaulKolomeyer
    @PaulKolomeyer 6 лет назад +1

    Literally monopoly

    • @gerrynightingale9045
      @gerrynightingale9045 5 лет назад +1

      **ANY 'business' is a 'Monopoly' in one form or another...the same as any 'Government'**

  • @vincegay986
    @vincegay986 5 лет назад +2

    How bold of CBS to air these “hard hitting” mash notes to major ad buyers. I can remember when CBS actually had a news division.

    • @gerrynightingale9045
      @gerrynightingale9045 5 лет назад

      **What should they 'show?' Some 'secret plots' & 'conspiracies?'** (Murrow is dead and even he never 'revealed' anything that people didn't already know or
      suspect)

    • @vincegay986
      @vincegay986 5 лет назад

      Gerry Nightingale They should show nothing. There is neither a feature nor a hard news story here, just a “value-added” free commercial for a big advertiser, unconvincingly disguised as journalism. And yeah, I’m sure wire reports would have done a great job of conveying what the Blitz was doing to England. And never mind Watergate scoops or Vietnam troop-strength undercounts. Those were all up on billboards, with no help from CBS News, right? Bygone days.

    • @gerrynightingale9045
      @gerrynightingale9045 5 лет назад

      @@vincegay986 **WTF is your malfunction?**
      And how does your own delusional paranoia mean 'All things must conform
      to anything/everything I think because I
      say so!'

  • @Opetheric
    @Opetheric 8 лет назад +4

    Did you question them on the use of GMO products in their food?! Also is production in the USA or Mexico?! Nice story but a total puff piece.

    • @gerrynightingale9045
      @gerrynightingale9045 5 лет назад +3

      **Virtually every food eaten by humans has been 'genetically modified' for the
      last fifty-thousand years (many animals as well) and multi-billion dollar companies do not 'do business' in a tiny 'Mom & Pop' factory complete with
      elves!**

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines 7 месяцев назад

      Most of the "SUNDAY MORNING" stories are "puff pieces"- especially those featuring Mo Rocca.

  • @josecanyousee4125
    @josecanyousee4125 7 лет назад +3

    Carcinogens in their cereal.