44 going to 69 and rain coming in.
I didn't know the Quaker Oats I eat had such a storied past and international appeal.
I like mine thick and hot.
I had to look this up, what we know as Quaker Oats is not a brand that goes "all the way back".
Nor was the original product made by Quakers, some miller read an article and liked the idea...
sigh
this is from their website:
The Quaker Mill Company was a 19th-century American oat mill company in Ravenna, Ohio.
After merging with three other companies in 1901, the company became the Quaker Oats Company, now a subsidiary of PepsiCo.
History
Henry D. Seymour and William Heston founded the Quaker Mill in Ravenna. On 4 September 1877
Seymour trademarked the Quaker brand
after reading an encyclopedia article on Quakers,
who are officially called the Religious Society of Friends.[1] By 1888, the company employed 83 people,
and (in a tie with the Ravenna Glass Company) was Ravenna's largest employer.[2]
Who is the man on the Quaker Oats box? Is it William Penn?
The "Quaker man" is not an actual person. His image is that of a man dressed in the Quaker garb,
chosen because the Quaker faith projected the values of honesty, integrity, purity and strength.
