Yes, you missed it or didn't even watch the video.
I don't need to watch it a second time.
Nice try.
I did too watch the video. Did you read my links?
I think Green might've over sold herself to her relatives when she went home for Xmas and that's how that myth got started. There's no doubt she probably made good pancakes because that was part of her job at expos. But the original recipe was created before she was hired. Meaning the product came before the packaging, trademark and the ad campaign....
"...The Aunt Jemima trademark had its beginnings in Missouri. Chris L. Rutt, a reporter for the St. Joseph Gazette, and Charles G. Underwood, a mill owner, purchased the Pearl Milling Company in 1888. ....
Rutt and Underwood experimented with a combination of various ingredients such as hard wheat flour, corn flour, phosphate of lime, soda, and salt such that when milk was added and the batter cooked, pancakes resulted. They finally perfected the product for which they had been looking, and within a year they produced the first pancake mix (Campbell, 1964, p. 40).....
The founders immediately began to package the mix for sale to the public. The first commercial batch was packaged in paper bags with a generic label, “Self-Rising Pancake Flour,” since the Aunt Jemima name had not yet been conceived.
While visiting a vaudeville house in St. Joseph, Missouri, one evening in the autumn of 1889, Rutt saw a team of blackface minstrel comedians known as Baker and Farrell. The high point of the act was a jazzy, rhythmic, New Orleans–style Cakewalk performed to a tune called “Aunt Jemima” (Morgan, 1986, p. 55). The song was originally called “Old Aunt Jemima” and was one of the most popular songs of the day, performed by Billy Kersands, a well-known minstrel, from 1870 to 1900. ....
Mesmerized, Rutt knew that the song and costume projected the image for which he had been searching. He decided to mimic it, using not only the name but the likeness of the Southern mammy emblazoned on the lithographed posters advertising the act of Baker and Farrell, thus beginning a new era in advertising. This would be the first time a living person would be used to personify a company’s trademark (Kern-Foxworth, 1988, p. 18).
However, Rutt and Underwood could not raise the necessary capital to promote and market the product effectively. They soon ran out of money. After registering the trademark in 1890, they sold their interests to the R. T. Davis Mill and Manufacturing Company, also of St. Joseph, Missouri..... A 50-year veteran of the milling business, he designed a promotional campaign that has been revered for years by many advertisers, promoters, and marketers.
The first miracle he performed was to improve the flavor and texture of the product by adding rice flour and corn sugar to the ingredients. The next step would be one of the most important to the success of the Aunt Jemima brand. “He simplified the ready-mix principle by adding powdered milk— an extremely significant simplification” (Kern-Foxworth, 1989a, p. 56). Cooks had only to add water to prepare the batter. With this change in the mixture, Aunt Jemima ushered in the beginning of the convenience foods era. Davis was a master at promotion, and the company flourished under his direction....."
Nancy Green made her first appearance as Aunt Jemima at the
1893 World’s Fair.
