Ever Wonder Where The Name Came From? OT

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Ever Wonder Where The Name Came From ??

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*BABY RUTH CANDY BAR*

The Baby Ruth candy bar was NOT named after Babe Ruth, but after " Baby "

Ruth Cleveland, the daughter of former President Grover Cleveland in

1921. The Yankee legend did endorse a knock-off called " Babe Ruth Home

Run Bar, " but Baby Ruth's bosses went to court and forced the competitor

off the market.

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CRACKER JACK*

Candy coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize -- that's what you get in

Cracker Jack! The popular treat got its name when a salesman, sampling

the mix for the first time in 1899, exclaimed, " That's crackerjack! " --

meaning very good. And a snack star was born.

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DR. PEPPER*

Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? In 1885, Alderton, the

inventor of Dr Pepper soft drink, named the beverage after Dr.

R. Pepper of Virginia when the doctor refused to allow his daughter

Minerva to marry Alderton, who was from Waco, Texas. The strategy didn't

work and Alderton married another woman, but the name stuck. And it's a

good thing . . . Alderton originally called the drink " Waco. "

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HERSHEY'S KISSES*

The candy, invented by Milton S. Hershey in 1907, is named for the sound

the machine nozzles made as they squirted out each dollop of chocolate.

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LITTLE DEBBIE SNACK CAKES*

The treats from the McKee Baking Company of Tennessee are named after

the founder's granddaughter, Debbie McKee, who was a young girl in 1960

when she posed for the picture on the packages.

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MILK DUDS*

The chocolates were created in 1926 when the maker, F. Hoffman & Company

of Chicago, tried to produce a perfectly round candy and instead

mistakenly made lopsided, but delicious, " duds. "

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TOOTSIE ROLL*

The chewy treats were named for " Tootsie, " the 5-year-old daughter of

inventor Leo Hirshfield, an Austrian immigrant, who began selling the

treats in New York City in 1905.

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DAIRY QUEEN*

Who's the original Dairy Queen? Company founder J.F. McCullough came up

with the name in 1940 when the first ice-cream store opened in Joliet,

Ill. He said it was in honor of the real queen of the dairy industry --

the cow!

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DIAL SOAP*

Dial became a brand in 1948 because execs at the Armour Soap Co. wanted

to get across the idea that it offered round-the-clock protection. To

emphasize the point, they used a clock dial for the emblem.

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IVORY SOAP*

The white soap came about by accident in 1879, after a Procter & Gamble

employee left the mixing machine on when he went to lunch, and got too

much air into the soap he was making. The extra whipping made the 99

44/100 percent pure soap float and gave the product one of its greatest

selling points.

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BUDWEISER BEER*

Brewmeister Carl Conrad christened his beer Budweiser after the Bohemian

town of Budweis in 1876, because the townsfolk were famous for making a

similar-style beer.

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VICTORIA'S SECRET*

Just what IS 's Secret? Ironically, the sexy lingerie company

bought by Wexner, owner of The Limited clothing chain in 1982,

was named after prudish Queen .