The Mickey Mouse watch made a memorable, Macy’s-jamming debut in 1933, but it wasn’t the only Depression-era consumer product calling on the mouse’s clout. Pinback buttons such as this one promoted dozens of bread and milk brands (as well as “undies,” “hose,” radios, peanut butter and dental hygiene). This postcard suggests how kids played the Globe Trotters game.
Hard to imagine Tar Heel Bread holding any appeal beyond North Carolina. Does anyone know who baked it — or maybe even ate it?
I’ve been googling trying to figure out something and I came across this:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/99/6/476.full.pdf
I’ll keep looking though!
It was baked by the Waldensian Bakery in Valdese ,N.C.