Grape Nuts Advertising Tin
1:40 PM
Brandon
, Posted in
The original grape nuts advertising tin was made in 1897 by General Foods Post Cereal Company. The tin had a picture on it that wrapped around it. This picture was of a little girl walking beside a St. Bernard on her way to school. The picture said “To school well fed on Grape-Nuts There’s a Reason”. This tin is now kept as a collectors item. This tin was a single sheet of stamped tin with a frame.
Grape Nuts was used in the military as a part of the rations that soldiers were given. The fact that the food was so small, lightweight and spoiled slowly made it a perfect treat for long trips or camping. Despite the Grape-nuts brand name the cereal in itself contains neither grapes OR nuts. The cereal would be cooked in an oven and come out on a baking sheet as one large rigid sheet of Grape-nuts. At this point the sheet would be taken and place into a coffee grinder. The grinder would chop it up into small pieces like you would find in a box of Grape-nuts today.
0 Response to "Grape Nuts Advertising Tin"
Post a Comment