On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Pillsbury Company is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company that was one of the world’s largest producers of grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought by General Mills in 2001. Advertising company Leo Burnett Worldwide created Pillsbury’s Doughboy and Jolly Green Giant, which are two of the agency’s top brand icons. Pillsbury and Company” was pillsbury sweet blueberry biscuits recipe in 1869 by Charles Alfred Pillsbury and his uncle John S.

In 1889, Pillsbury and its five mills on the banks of the Mississippi River were purchased by a British company. In 1923, the Pillsbury family reacquired “Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company, Limited” which subsequently was incorporated in 1935 as “Pillsbury Flour Mills Company”. Only seven products used the Pillsbury name in 1950, but the company began adding to its product line. Ballard Company and the beginning of packaged biscuit dough, which would become one of the company’s most important and profitable product lines in later decades.

The company began advertising heavily on television. 10 made with cyclamate, which became the most popular artificial sweetener. Another drink mix introduced in 1966 was Moo Juice, a flavored powder that when combined with milk in a shaker, produced a milkshake. Moo Juice was also created by Hal Silverman. Among the other kid foods that Silverman created for Pillsbury was Nugget Town, chocolate flavored nuggets that came in eight different, collectable packages that when popped open and folded made into a whole western town. The TV commercial featured comedian Buddy Hackett as the voice of the town’s little bear sheriff.