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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 416956, member: 5833"]I've learned that when I find a lot of inconsistencies is some line of reasoning, it's because something about my assumptions is wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only reason we're connecting any of these to Cream of Wheat is because wildrose reported that she had found some described that way. We're calling it a grease jar for the same reason. These days it takes only one person to put up a bit of incorrect information for it to quickly spread all over the place, so it looks like accepted truth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do we actually know either of these things is true? Plus the bit about its being the rare light faced version? Were these promotional items for CoW? Not very good ones; they don't much evoke their trademarked figure on the box. Did a commercial pottery license the image & then alter it out of recognition?</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if CoW had something to do with the production of these, you would think they would all, no matter the color of the face, retain the red bowtie, as the boxes did when they were updated. If the light faced version is rare, where are the presumably more common dark faced versions?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the 'grease jar', it doesn't look well suited to that purpose at all. I don't have any experience with them, but would think you have to be able to heat them to reliquify the fats & be able to pour from them? You would also want to make it difficult to spill. With its wide mouth & lid that just sits on top, I can see a real possibility of mishaps with the posted one. It looks to me more like a butter keeper from when people didn't always have their butter in neat, squared off bars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conclusion: Fake news. Someone on eBay or wherever fabricated a description because they dimly remembered a figure with a chef's toque on the CoW box they hadn't really looked at since they were a kid. It's quite possible the original source expressed their ideas tentatively while, with the next person to take them up, they became a certainty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 416956, member: 5833"]I've learned that when I find a lot of inconsistencies is some line of reasoning, it's because something about my assumptions is wrong. The only reason we're connecting any of these to Cream of Wheat is because wildrose reported that she had found some described that way. We're calling it a grease jar for the same reason. These days it takes only one person to put up a bit of incorrect information for it to quickly spread all over the place, so it looks like accepted truth. Do we actually know either of these things is true? Plus the bit about its being the rare light faced version? Were these promotional items for CoW? Not very good ones; they don't much evoke their trademarked figure on the box. Did a commercial pottery license the image & then alter it out of recognition? Even if CoW had something to do with the production of these, you would think they would all, no matter the color of the face, retain the red bowtie, as the boxes did when they were updated. If the light faced version is rare, where are the presumably more common dark faced versions? As for the 'grease jar', it doesn't look well suited to that purpose at all. I don't have any experience with them, but would think you have to be able to heat them to reliquify the fats & be able to pour from them? You would also want to make it difficult to spill. With its wide mouth & lid that just sits on top, I can see a real possibility of mishaps with the posted one. It looks to me more like a butter keeper from when people didn't always have their butter in neat, squared off bars. Conclusion: Fake news. Someone on eBay or wherever fabricated a description because they dimly remembered a figure with a chef's toque on the CoW box they hadn't really looked at since they were a kid. It's quite possible the original source expressed their ideas tentatively while, with the next person to take them up, they became a certainty.[/QUOTE]
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