That's my Pancake...No it's mine!!!



Warm, fluffy, golden brown pancakes with a good old bottle of Aunt Jemima's syrup on top;our mornings have been enlightened by this breakfast at some point. Yet have you ever taken the time to look at the smiling lady on the front of that pancake box or syrup bottle? Many consider her to have been real while others think she's just another company's brand. Could Aunt Jemima have been real?
Well it seems that the Quaker Oats company and the supposed great grandchildren of Aunt Jemima are debating over the answer and so much more.

It is said that in the 1890's a woman named, Nancy Green, was hired to play the role of Aunt Jemima in the advertisements. Yet after her death in 1923, Anna Short Harrington became the new Aunt Jemima. Descendants of both these women are claiming that they are entitled to 2 billion dollars and portions to future revenues because of the impact these two women had on the brand.

The Quaker Oats company has said "People associate the Aunt Jemima brand with warmth, hospitality, and comfort, and we stand by this heritage as well as the ways in which we do business", yet they have also claimed that they never had Anna Short Harrington as an employee, according to her great grandson, D.W Hunter. He's also mention that his great grandmother changed the recipe so that It would include potato grease, therefore giving them the right to future profit portions, so now the question is, who will get the last pancake?

1 comment:

  1. Generally actors and models in commercials, unlike in TV shows and films, do not receive residuals. I would think that would make for a hard case to win against Quaker Oats.

    I would think without a contract stipulating a percentage of sales this would be a hard case to win, not that I am not sympathetic to the families involved.

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