Pop Tarts Report

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NAME: _______________________________ DATE ______________ Period ______

OVERVIEW:  Your group in your Social Studies class has been researching the origin of a well-known convenience food, “Pot Tarts.”  Below you will find the notes you and your group compiled.  Now you must use all the notes, organize them, and write a well-organized report.

YOUR TASK: Begin by reading through all the notes Then, as you reread them, number them so they are in a logical order.  Finally, once you decided on a proper order, begin writing them on loose-leaf and edit them as you go. Your final report should be well organized, written in proper English, with correct use of punctuation and capitalization.

Þ   within six months after post’s announcement, kellogg, post’s biggest competitor took post’s idea and test-marketed pop-tarts in cleveland they sold out initial test run, forty-five thousand cases

Þ   will october 6, 1951 (aged 91) and was a vegetarian for his whole life

Þ   will kellogg, born april 7, 1860, along with his brother, john, co-invented flaked cereal

Þ   will and his brother john looked for the vegetarian alternatives and found by boiling wheat they could make a digestible bread-substitute by the process of boiling wheat

Þ   when asked if his lack of education ever discouraged him, he said, “my pride wouldn’t let me quit.”

Þ   thomas nangle sued kellogg for damages in 1992, his pop-tarts caught fire in his toaster

Þ   professor patrick michaud performed an experiment proving that, when left in the toaster too long, strawberry pop-tarts could produce flames over a foot high (1994)

Þ   post cereals first created “country squares” early 1960s after they developed a process of enclosing dog food in foil packets to keep it fresh without refrigeration

Þ   post announced their new product, 1963 but they weren’t ready to market it yet

Þ   kellogg’s pop tarts didn’t have frosting then, kellogg thought that frosting would melt in toaster

Þ   kellogg received complaints that children might hug the toaster and burn themselves because

Þ   kellogg didn’t invent pop tarts.

Þ   kellogg created a cartoon character, milton the toaster, to promote pop-tarts to children 1971

Þ   kellogg chose the name “pop tarts” because pop art was the craze at the time

Þ   frosted pot tarts were introduced in 1967 by kellogg

Þ   commercial showed child hugging  milton the toaster

Þ   at age 14, will. quit school to become a broom salesman.  he never got passed the sixth grade

Þ   forever changed the way we eat breakfast

Þ   after 1994 pop-tarts began carry warning: "do not leave toasting appliances unattended due to possible risk of fire."

Þ   accidentally, in 1894, will left a pot of boiled wheat to stand and it hardened but when put through the rolling process, each grain of wheat emerged as a large, thin flake.

Þ   1894, invented cereal flakes as a healthy food

Þ   “i am myself lamentably ignorant. the competition in the business world is such that the people with good educations are usually those who succeed,” kellogg said.

Þ   “country squares” was too corny a name and never succeeded