![]() Until last week, I dismissed him as an eccentric old coot who might have gotten ahold of the wrong kind of mushrooms while rooting around in the forest for dinner. You know, the other day, I ate some goose poop I found on my lawn.” Sitting down to dig into a bowl of Grape-Nuts, he says, “Of course, I don’t always eat it in a bowl like this. Gibbons once made a parody of his own commercials. Sometimes Gibbons got in on the act himself when he appeared on TV talk programs such as the Johnny Carson Show. From the Carol Burnett Show to the PBS children’s program “The Electric Company,” on-air personalities poked fun at him. His eccentric ways and folksy persona made him the butt of jokes. In the commercial for which he’s probably best remembered, Gibbons asks, “Ever eat a pine tree?” They typically depicted the robust, outdoorsy Gibbons foraging in the countryside then sitting down to enjoy a bowl of Grape-Nuts. ![]() Like a lot of folks my age, I knew him only through his iconic Post Grape-Nuts commercials, which aired in the 1970s. Last week, while writing a column about foraging, I met Euell Gibbons. When I set out to write my outdoors column - generally in the quiet of a Sunday morning - I don’t know where it’s going much less where it might end up. ![]() This originally was published as an outdoors column in the Ashland Times-Gazette, Loudonville Times Shopper and elsewhere online.įor me, writing is an adventure. ![]()
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