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Question about my grandma's 1953 Betty Crocker ad clipping, was she saving it for the recipe or the picture?
Found it tucked in her recipe box next to a handwritten note about a church potluck in Duluth, and the ad shows a $1.25 cake mix deal that seems way too cheap for 1953. Was she clipping for the food or the fancy kitchen in the background?
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sanchez.mia8h ago
Guessing this makes me the kind of person who zooms into old ads looking for deals instead of family history, but that $1.25 price is what caught my eye too. Old cake mix ads from the 50s usually ran closer to 20 or 30 cents, so $1.25 sounds like it might be for a whole case or a bulk deal, not one box. Your grandma probably kept it for the recipe on the back, since that church potluck note right next to it tells you she actually used the thing.
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