Remembering Jimmy Dean, Purveyor of Increasingly Gross Breakfast Products
June 14th, 2010 admin
Topics: big bad john, carson, chocolate, crossover, housewife, jimmy dean, johnny, monstrosities, pancakes, pure pork sausage, sara lee, sausage, stuff
Depending on how old you are, or how much you’ve watched television over the years, you might think of Jimmy Dean as the man who recited the 1961 country crossover hit “Big Bad John,” the host of a popular TV talk show in the mid-’60s, the cornpone star of television commercials for his branded “pure pork sausage,” or for the stomach-turning products later made under his name. What he really was, though, was a born entrepreneur. Dean died on Sunday at 81 . He started the Jimmy Dean Meat Company in 1969 after digging a bit of gristle out of his teeth when eating a piece of sausage and wondered, where…
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