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1958 Friskees introduced the first dry cat food 1958 Rice-A-Roni goes on sale. Produced by Vince DeDomenico from an Armenian family recipe. 1958 Cocoa Puffs cereal is introduced by General Mills; it contains 43% sugar. 1958 Cocoa Krispies is introduced by Kellogg’s - it's 45.9% sugar. 1958 Jolly Green Giant was born. He appears on TV, but he looks like a monster and scares kids. So they lighten him up a bit, added 'Ho, ho, ho' and and a catchy jingle. 1958 Sweet n' Low was introduced as an artificial sweetener (granulated saccharin, dextrose, cream of tartar and calcium silicate). It received U.S. trademark patent no. 1,000,000. 1958 Frank Carney, 18 years old, reads about the Pizza fad with college students. He borrows $600 from his mother and opens the first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas. 1958 Jif peanut butter was introduced (creamy). 1958 Royal Crown Cola begins test marketing Diet Rite Cola, the first diet cola. It goes national in 1962.

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