Betty Crocker is ficticious
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
July 30, 2010 11:01pm CST
I thought since I was on a kick w/ finding out about Duncan Hines.... why not look up one of the next most famous names in US kitchens... Betty Crocker. Well Betty was never really a person but a marketing concept as well as an acress hired to appear as "Betty Crocker" in ads. Though one of the developers of the concept did a radio cooking program in that lasted nearly 30 years!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Crocker
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
31 Jul 10
I am reading this article now, it has a lot of interesting information on it. Keep going with your fun facts, it's inspired me to look at a whole page of nice fun facts. Betty Crocker is such a well known character, I know many people want to bake like "Betty Crocker" did, but now we know she didn't as she doesn't exist! wow!
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
31 Jul 10
Thanks I will! I think I'm on a roll! Plus it'll help make the cooking section a lil interesting ;0)
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
31 Jul 10
Betty Crocker along with many tv Mom's of the 1950's were all perfect lil housewives. Made the best meals & kept their homes neat as a pins and as their reward they got to go to the beauty shop.
Sadly there's nothing that doesn't offend someone some way some how. Though Aunt Jemima much like Betty Crocker was the brain child of a marketing department.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
1 Aug 10
wow I am again learning and how fun.hi 3Snugglebunnies So Betty Crocker was just an idea and Betty sounded like a good old American name.
I remember that Cooking show too on the radio. Love getting new
information about these various companies. Way to go. thanks.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
12 Aug 10
I'm sure Martha Stewart has a radio show out there w/ all the fancy subscription radio companies reinventing the same ideas thru the media of radio.
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
31 Jul 10
I never knew that she did not exist! what a let down to find this out .lol I do appreciate learning such interesting snippets of of information from you. Blessings
