A Crummy Commercial

Recently I became aware of Kwik Trip Dunkers due to this guy: https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb-hq/news/gennings-dunker-2026-nfl-draft-prospect-profile-grades-rank-measurements Apparently he is a BIG fan of Culver's, the fast food chain that originated in Wisconsin.  Anyway Dunkers are a cake donut in various rotating flavors sold six to a box. But when I saw pictures of a Dunker: I immediately thought of Egekvist donuts in a box.  They were also boxed cake donuts sold at Mann's.  But somewhere along the line either Mann's changed wholesalers or Egekvist went out of business because they stopped being offered.  I tried looking for a picture of Egekvist donuts but this was the only one I found: the Egekvist ones were in the yellow windowed boxes source:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/40150075@N04/44967499092 It's so fuzzy that I'm not sure what brand is what, but you get the idea.  It's not that the Egekvist donuts were super great, it was more t...

I saw this picture on Shorpy recently: source: https://www.shorpy.com/node/27808  This reminded me of my Grampa, Charles A. Olson.  He was a paint salesman for National Lead in Wisconsin from roughly 1926 until sometime in the mid 1950s.  He would travel around calling on the local paint stores, taking orders, solving problems and probably doing more than a little schmoozing.  We used to go over to see the grandparents probably every other weekend.  They lived in a stone house near Lincoln Creek Parkway in Milwaukee.  Grampa used to tell stories about his life as a salesman.  But I'm afraid that since I was a kid at the time I didn't pay much attention.  He started in the old days of salesmanship when the trainees would go to the factory and learn about how paint was made and about all the technical aspects.  One thing I remember is that my Grampa always took the company line on lead paint even though his best friend, Harvey (a lawyer), would...