The Pillsbury Doughboy

 When you think of baking, the first name that probably comes to mind is Pillsbury. Their ready-to-bake dough products have been well-known on supermarket shelves for as long as I can remember. I even managed to get their Crescent Rolls onto our Thanksgiving table for a few years on the strength of an ad campaign in which the Pilgrims had them on their table! 

Grandma once told me a story about when she was in Chicago in about the mid-60s. Some gentlemen took her into a small room and played on a film projector the first commercial to feature their mascot, the Pillsbury Doughboy. After that, they asked her on a survey card what she thought. She must have liked him a great deal, because he went on to much fame and fortune! And he even went on to ring in the new millennium.

Picture reproduced from a Mercari listing

There he is, now wearing a nifty little "2000 Millennium" shirt along with his chef's hat and neckerchief. Debuting on television screens in 1965, the Doughboy has been a familiar face on cans of dough, bags of flour, and boxes of waffles for almost a century. 

"Hoo-hoo!"