March of the Doughboys

We celebrate the Pillsbury Doughboy, arguably Minnesota's best-known advertising icon, with a look at some of the nearly 600 objects in the Minnesota Historical Society's collection that feature Poppin' Fresh. Many of these items are drawn from the Richard Ferrell Flour Milling Industry History Collection.
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[@user-sc2di1dr8v]

Love the doughboy!!!!! Brings back such memories.

[@c.rutherford]

This isn't the story I heard. Being a Central Illinois local its still said here that the Pillsbury Doughboy was the idea of an employee at the (now closed) Springfield plant who dropped it in the manager suggestion box