When was pillsbury doughboy introduced

Any views, findings, opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the State of Minnesota, the Minnesota Historical Society, or the Minnesota Historic Resources Advisory Committee. Image from HHM Collections. Share This Event! Go to Top. Also known as Poppin' Fresh, the Doughboy was introduced by Rudolph Perz, a copywriter at Leo Burnett agency who had been hired to market Pillsbury's new innovation of refrigerated dough you could pop open and right into your oven via Bustle.

Pillsbury had been specializing in dry goods like flour, cake mix, and pasta since Charles A. Pillsbury bought a share in a flour mill in Poppin' Fresh was born in , the same year as Pillsbury's refrigerated crescent roll dough.

I loved that thing so much. Doughboy 4 lyfe. He still looks more or less the same as he did more than 50 years ago, and his personality has remained constant during all those years as well. Doughboy comes in and says his spiel with the same sincerity he had when we were kids. Oh, and hey, guess what? He turns 52 on Nov. Happy early birthday, Doughboy! Appearing in the early s, Poppie Fresh — who is the wife to Poppin' — debuted to represent to all of the brand's sweet products HuffPost.

The Fresh Family also included two children a son, Popper, and a daughter, Bun-Bun , Poppin's grandparents Granmommer and Granpopper, his Uncle Rollie, and two family pets — a dog named Flapjack and a cat named Biscuit.

So, what sparked the expansion of The Fresh Family? According to Mental Floss , it was the creation of the Poppin' Fresh doll that did the trick.