Grape Nuts cereal is still around, but do you remember the old Euell Gibbons commercials? He loved to talk about Grape Nuts being a “back to nature cereal.” Euell Gibbons was born in 1911 and died in 1975 at the age of 64 from an aneurysm from complications of Marfan’s syndrome. In 1974 he made the famous commercial for Grape Nuts asking “Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.”

I couldn’t find the pine tree commercial, but here is one that he starred in: