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Jimmy Dean (brand) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Jimmy Dean Foods is a food company that was founded in 1969 by country singer and actor Jimmy Dean. It was purchased by Sara Lee, which then divested as part of a unit known as Hillshire Brands, which was later purchased by Tyson Foods.

Contents 1	History 2	Products 3	References 4	External links

History[edit] Jimmy Dean was born in Plainview Texas on August 10th in 1928. Plainview Texas is about three hours west of a big city in Texas called Dallas. When Jimmy Dean was growing up he loved making fresh sausage on his farm with his grandfather. But before Jimmy got into the food business for his famous sausage, he was a well known singer and entertainer. At 22 Jimmy started his entertaining career in a band called Jimmy Dean and the Texas Wildcats. He received a grammy award for his #1 hit "Big bad John" in 1962 for best country and western recording song of the year. In 1963 Dean received his own television show called "The Jimmy Dean Show" where he performed a lot of live streaming music. One day Jimmy and his brother Don went to a local diner in his hometown of Plainview Texas for breakfast. Dean ordered his usual sausage and eggs, but was very unhappy when he bit into his sausage and found a very big piece of gristle in his meat! After that Jimmy Dean was determined to make the world "best sausage". On May 25th 1969 Jimmy Dean had officially opened The "Jimmy Dean Meat Company". By its 2nd year the Jimmy Dean Meat Company had become America's best selling breakfast sausage. In 1980 the company founded its second product after the sausage, it was now a refrigerated sausage biscuit sandwich. By the early 2000s the Jimmy Dean brand had rapidly increased with new products like breakfast bowls, breakfast sandwiches, frittatas, and more. 50 years later in 2019 the Jimmy Dean brand has done great. Dean founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage brand of breakfast sausage, which was originally called "Pure Pork Sausage." The Jimmy Dean Sausage company did well, in part due to Dean's own extemporized, good-humored commercials.[1]

Dean sold the company to the Sara Lee Corporation in 1984 for $80 million. He remained involved as the company spokesman after the takeover, though Sara Lee, under the leadership of John Bryan, immediately began phasing him out of management duties. By 2002, he was no longer acting as spokesman. In 2018, after Bryan's death, the company resumed an advertising campaign featuring Dean, who had died in 2010.[2] [3]

The Jimmy Dean company also produced a line of ready-made deli-style sandwiches. These sandwiches were made part of pre-packaged shelf-stable meals that became popular with the U.S. Armed Forces as an alternative to MREs (Meals Ready-to-Eat). These meals are affectionately called "Jimmy Deans" by U.S. servicemen.[4]

Products[edit] 1. Tastefuls! (discontinued) Tastefuls were like lunchables before lunchables were even created. They gave you more food than luncables did. Inside the box were two ham and cheese sandwiches with orioles and Fritos corn chips. 2. Fresh sausage 3. Sausage links and patties 4. Fresh bacon 5. Full cooked bacon, sausage links, and sausage patties 6. Breakfast bowls 7. Sandwiches 8. Jimmy Dean Skillets 9. Pancake and sausage on a stick 10. Omelets 11. Heat 'N Serve microwavable sausage 12. Jimmy D's Breakfasts 13. Jimmy Dean Delights (sandwiches, bowls, and sausage) 14. Jimmy Dean Biscuit Roll-Ups

References[edit] ^ Calhoun, Fryar (August 1983). "Hi! I'm Jimmy Dean and I'd like you to try my pure pork sausage". Texas Monthly. Vol. 11 no. 8. Emmis Communications. pp. 121–123 198–200, 206. ISSN 0148-7736. ^ "Jimmy Dean Dead". Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 February 2014. ^ "Jimmy Dean featured in 2018 Ad". iSpot.tv. ^ http://www.mreinfo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2808 ^ https://www.jimmydean.com/our-story ^ https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/how-jimmy-dean-went-from-country-star-to-sausage-king ^ https://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/2150/jimmy-dean-tastefuls ^ https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/sponsor-story/1969-was-a-historic-year/

External links[edit] Company website