Description: A 1940’s/1950’s Ranger Joe Nabisco Wheat Honnies Cereal Premium childs glass drink mug or cup. In 1939 Nabisco introduced Wheat Honnies Cereal which was the first widely distributed pre-sweetened cereal in the US. It would appear this cup was a premium from Nabisco. The cup has two images of Ranger Joe and a Cowboy on a bucking bronco and states “RANGER JOE RANCH MUG” Including the handle the glass cup is 3 5/8 x 3 inches in height. The colors are bright and the cup has no cracks or chips. Please see the other vintage items that I have listed on eBay. Payment is by PayPal. Thanks for looking. Introduced in 1939, Ranger Joe Wheat Honnies was the first widely distributed pre-sweetened cereal. Consumers were encouraged to eat the new sugar-coated cereal as snack right out of the box. Sugar Crisp - introduced ten years later - is often incorrectly sited as the first pre-sweetened cereal. Originally distributed only on the Northern East Coast of the U.S. in the 1940's, Ranger Joe Popped Wheat Honnies was the the invention of Jim Rex, a heating-equipment salesman from Philadelphia. According to the book Cerealizing America by Scot Bruce and Bill Crawford, Rex got the idea for the cereal after watching his children douse their puffed wheat cereal with sugar. Ironically, Popped Wheat Honnies, the first sugar-coated cereal, was created in response to kid's putting too much sugar on un-sweetend cereal. Jim Rex developed a method of flash-baking cereal with honey and corn syrup which gave the cereal pieces a sort of candy-coating. Within 10 years of this cereal's introduction, the major cereal companies began using variations of Rex's flash-bake process. Sugar Crisp introduced by Post in 1949 was the first sugar-coated cereal from a major cereal producer. Ranger Joe Popped Wheat Honnies was eventually sold to the National Biscuit Company in 1954 were the cereal finally achieved national distribution under it's new name Wheat Honeys. In 1971, Wheat Honeys became Winnie-The-Pooh Great Honey Crunchers. One year later, the name was changed again, this time to Klondike Pete's Crunchy Nuggets. That cereal was discontinued in 1975.
Price: 22.5 USD
Location: Folsom, California
End Time: 2024-10-08T06:27:22.000Z
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