Euell Gibbons
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advertise for back in about 1973 or so? It was some kind of healthy
food, I know, cuz he was a real health nut. But didnt he tip over from
a heart attack about 2 years after he got so famous??
Chris Siciliano
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Doug
I've never eaten it,is it any good?
-Doug
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NJROB65
I've never eaten it,is it any good?
-Doug>>
No. it's pretty tasteless.
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>Euell Gibbons was the spokesman for Post Grape Nuts cereal.
>
>I've never eaten it,is it any good?
>
>-Doug
Not bad but they are different in Canada. I usually get a box about
once each quarter year. They are different in Canada, as are Sugar
Pops, and are not as good here so I import mine.
"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible!" His famous quote.
I remember a lot of Euell Gibbons jokes in high school, usually
revolving arounf the subject of his grape nuts.
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dropped dead. Also lots of jokes about eating tree bark.
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guy who wrote a book about natural or organic foods (I'm pretty sure). He
advertised Grape Nuts as a 100% Natural Food. And a coupla months later he
dropped dead of "Natural Causes" (GOD I'm bad!!!).
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Dixon Hayes
>"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible!" His famous quote.
>
>I remember a lot of Euell Gibbons jokes in high school, usually
>revolving arounf the subject of his grape nuts.
>
Euell's dietary habits got him a lot of jokes at his expense. Johnny Carson
had a Euell Gibbons joke about every other night or so. There's a classic
Carol Burnett sketch in which he's played by John Byner. During the sketch he
takes bites of a tree, a limb, the picnic table where the cereal is sitting,
and bites the arm of one of the white-coated men who come to take him
away...("You know, there are quite a few nutrients to be found in the human
arm...")
Dixon
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World. During all the practices the line "ask, and you'll be given, the key to
this heart of mine" was sang "ask and Euell Gibbons.." by mostly all the boys.
The teachers were having a fit! lol!! They swore they'd be big trouble if on
graduation day it was sung like that. Well, on the big day, when that part came
up, I waited and snuck a look around at all the wiseguys around me waiting for
the big moment. All I saw was a bunch pale faced boys staring straight ahead
with not a Euell Gibbons in the place. So much for cool! lol!
Sandy
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charles hobbs
NJROB65 wrote:
> << Euell Gibbons was the spokesman for Post Grape Nuts cereal.
>
> I've never eaten it,is it any good?
>
> -Doug>>
>
> No. it's pretty tasteless.
Hard too, if you eat it dry...
I checked out a few of his "eat a tree" books from the library a couple
of years ago...loads of amazing stuff ("popcorn" from a certain type of
water plant, and cattail pollen, and all kinds of wierd food)
marie
hilarious
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Tiny Dancer
>I'm having a real mental block here. What was it that he used to
>advertise for back in about 1973 or so? It was some kind of healthy
>food, I know, cuz he was a real health nut. But didnt he tip over from
>a heart attack about 2 years after he got so famous??
As others have posted, he was the spokesman for Post Grape Nuts
cereal and I found a good bio page with a pic here:
http://www.teleport.com/~wildfood/euellgibbons.html
As soon as I saw the title of one of his books I remembered it and
flashed right back, "Stalking the Wild Asparagus". Here's the info on
his death from the page, Freda was his wife:
"His last residence was in Beavertown, Pennsylvania, where he lived
with Freda until his death on December 29, 1975. He was 64. He died
of a heart attack - probably a result of cardiovascular disease. In Euell's
day it was not unusual to smoke cigarettes or to add high amounts of
saturated fat (bacon grease, butter, egg yolks) to his wild foods. These
risk factors combined with his hard life and lack of exercise in his later
years (arthritis pain limited his movement) undoubtedly contributed to
his death."
And here's an appearance I forgot about:
"At one point, to everyone's surprise, he began eating a wooden plaque
awarded him on the Sonny and Cher television show. The plaque was
really a prop made out of hard chocolate or some other edible substance."
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