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Can you post a product that contains a person's name...real or fictional?

Example: Betty Crocker products.

Posted - June 25, 2021

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  • 19938
    Famous Amos Cookies
    Aunt Annie's Cookies
    Tate's Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Sara Lee Pound Cake
      June 25, 2021 6:30 PM MDT
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  • 806
      June 25, 2021 7:05 PM MDT
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  • 33814
    Uncle Bens
    Little Debbie
    McAfee Antivirus
    Trump Hotel
    Nathan's Hotdogs
    Hiez Ketchup
    Bloomberg News
    Hershey chocolate
    George Foreman Grill


      June 25, 2021 7:29 PM MDT
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  • 53394

     

    Goodyear Tires (the company was named after Charles Goodyear, who invented the process for the vulcanization of rubber)

    Firestone Tires

    Michelin Tires

    Gates Rubber Company

    Ford Motor Company

    Chrysler Automobiles

    DeSoto cars

    Lay’s Potato Chips

    Nestlé Foods

    Singer Sewing Machines

    Hershey’s Chocolates

    Wendy’s fast food

    Chef Boy-Ar-Dee foods

    Famous Amos Cookies

    Claymore anti-personnel mines

    Gatlin (Machine)gun

    Wilson sporting equipment 

    Johnson & Johnson products

    Philips screwdriver 

    M-1 Garand Rifle

    Mason jars

    Smucker’s jellies and jams

    Gaines Burgers dog food

    Lincoln Logs children’s toy building set

    Higgins Boats

    Duncan Hines cooking products

    Betty Crocker cooking products

    Sara Lee snacks

    Little Debbie snack cakes

    Gerber’s Baby Foods

    The Dewey Decimal System

    Otis Elevators (a Black man)

    Pullman Railroad Cars

    Murphy beds (the type that folded up into the wall for storage when not being used)

    Picket fences (named after a general in the US Civil War who capitalized on a particular type of defense that hindered and/or stopped attacking enemy troops)

    Boeing Aircraft

    Wilkerson Razors

    Norell Razors

    Bunson burners

    Lazy Susan dining table implement 

    Bobby pins

    Bobby soxers 

    Remington Firearms

    Colt Firearms

    Buck knives 

    Bowie knives

    John Wayne (nickname of a can opener used by GIs to open K-Ration cans)

    Oscar Meyers hot dogs

    Parker Brothers board games 

    Milton Bradley board games 

    Mattel Toys

    Hasbro Toys

    Barbie dolls

    Holly Hobbie toys

    Donald Duck orange juice

    Peter Pan peanut butter 

    Teddy bears

    Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls

    Del Monte vegetables

    Birdseye Frozen Vegetables

    Doan’s Painkilling pills

    Budweiser, Schlitz, Michelin, Pabst, Heineken, Anheuser Busch, Coor’s, Samuel Adam’s, Miller’s, etc. beers

    Dr. Scholl’s footcare products 

    Dr. Pepper soda

    Doc Martin shoes

    Mae West life preservers

    Thompson submachinegun 

    Farmer John meat products

    Panama Jack

    Jack-in-the-Box

    Graham crackers

    Ike jackets 

    Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn

    Mary Jane shoes

    MacAlister tractors

    McCormick reapers

    Eli Whitney’s cotton gin

    John Deere farm equipment 

    Jolly Roger candies

    Prince Albert tobacco

    Bausch & Lomb optical products

    Reese’s candies

    Chanel perfumes 

    Vidal Sassoon hair care products

    Esteé Lauder perfumes

    Giorgio Armani products

    Louis Vuitton products

    Michael Kors products

    CW Post cereal products

    Johnny Walker, Tom Collins, Bloody Mary, Shirley Temple, Jack Daniel’s, etc. drinks

    Land cameras

    Captain Crunch, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Tony the Tiger cereals

    Mr. Peanut snacks

    The Braille reading system 

    Mackintosh raincoats

    Lewis gun

    Browning Automatic Rifle (B.A.R.)

    Gray’s Anatomy textbooks 

    Black’s Law reference books

    Roget’s Thesaurus

    Merriam-Webster’s dictionary 

    Baskin-Robbins ice cream

    Ben and Jerry’s ice cream 

    Edison electric power companies 

    Parker pens

    Sherman-Williams paints

    Currier and Ives housewares

    Kay’s jewelry

    Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart

    Petri dish









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      June 25, 2021 9:36 PM MDT
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  • 16628
    Gatlin Gatling (invented by Richard J Gatling, a double-agent during the American Civil War)
    Bunson Bunsen (Robert Bunsen, German scientist) This post was edited by Slartibartfast at June 27, 2021 4:34 PM MDT
      June 27, 2021 4:32 PM MDT
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  • 53394
    Thank you!
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      June 27, 2021 5:17 PM MDT
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  • 17565

    Orville Redenbacher popcorn.
    Marie Callender frozen foods.
    Kate Spade bags.
    Coco Chanel.
    Mrs. Butterworth.

    And my favorite:


      June 25, 2021 10:11 PM MDT
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  • 44543
    Who's name is on the ice cream?
      June 26, 2021 9:30 AM MDT
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  • 17565
    Welby's.............duh!
      June 26, 2021 7:41 PM MDT
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  • 53394

     

      It’s THRIFTY Ice Cream. She is ThriftyMaid. 

      Try to keep up.




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      June 26, 2021 7:47 PM MDT
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  • 16628
      June 26, 2021 3:06 AM MDT
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