Ever Wonder Where The Name Came From ?? (OT)

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Ever Wonder Where The Name Came From ??

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BABY RUTH CANDY BAR

The

Baby Ruth candy bar was NOT named after Babe Ruth, but after "Baby"

Ruth Cleveland, the daughter of former President Grover Cleveland in

1921. The Yankee legend did endorse a knock-off called "Babe Ruth Home

Run Bar," but Baby Ruth's bosses went to court and forced the

competitor off the market.

 

CRACKER JACK

Candy

coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize -- that's what you get in Cracker

Jack! The popular treat got its name when a salesman, sampling the mix

for the first time in 1899, exclaimed, "That's crackerjack!" -- meaning

very good. And a snack star was born.

 

DR. PEPPER

Wouldn't

you like to be a Pepper, too? In 1885, Charles Alderton, the inventor

of Dr Pepper soft drink, named the beverage after Dr. William R. Pepper

of Virginia when the doctor refused to allow his daughter Minerva to

marry Alderton, who was from Waco, Texas. The strategy didn't work and

Alderton married another woman, but the name stuck. And it's a good

thing . . . Alderton originally called the drink "Waco."

 

HERSHEY'S KISSES

The

candy, invented by Milton S. Hershey in 1907, is named for the sound

the machine nozzles made as they squirted out each dollop of chocolate.

 

 

LITTLE DEBBIE SNACK CAKES

The treats from the McKee

Baking Company of Tennessee are named after the founder's

granddaughter, Debbie McKee, who was a young girl in 1960 when she

posed for the picture on the packages.

 

MILK DUDS

The

chocolates were created in 1926 when the maker, F. Hoffman &

Company of Chicago, tried to produce a perfectly round candy and

instead mistakenly made lopsided, but delicious, "duds."

 

TOOTSIE ROLL

The

chewy treats were named for "Tootsie," the 5-year-old daughter of

inventor Leo Hirshfield, an Austrian immigrant, who began selling the

treats in New York City in 1905.

 

DAIRY QUEEN

Who's

the original Dairy Queen? Company founder J.F. McCullough came up with

the name in 1940 when the first ice-cream store opened in Joliet, Ill.

He said it was in honor of the real queen of the dairy industry -- the

cow!

 

DIAL SOAP

Dial became a brand in 1948 because

execs at the Armour Soap Co. wanted to get across the idea that it

offered round-the-clock protection. To emphasize the point, they used a

clock dial for the emblem.

 

IVORY SOAP

The white

soap came about by accident in 1879, after a Procter & Gamble

employee left the mixing machine on when he went to lunch, and got too

much air into the soap he was making. The extra whipping made the 99

44/100 percent pure soap float and gave the product one of its greatest

selling points.

 

BUDWEISER BEER

Brewmeister Carl

Conrad christened his beer Budweiser after the Bohemian town of Budweis

in 1876, because the townsfolk were famous for making a similar-style

beer.

 

VICTORIA'S SECRET

Just what IS Victoria's

Secret? Ironically, the sexy lingerie company bought by Leslie Wexner,

owner of The Limited clothing chain in 1982, was named after prudish

Queen Victoria.