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Quaker Oats

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Have you guys heard of the Great Corncob Fire of 1958? Quaker Oats used corn cobs at the time to get a particular chemical. They had a stockpile at their plant of 70,000 tons of corn cobs — it was six stories high.

from No Such Thing As The iSausage, 2020-06-22 at 00:39:46 · read transcript

Other times Quaker Oats came up

  1. Her childhood was bookended by oats, because then, after she graduated high school, she says that she got on a bus straight away to go to Nashville to make her fortune doing music in the city, and she got on a bus to go to Nashville to make her fortune doing music in the city, and she got on a bus with what she described as her suitcase, which was actually an empty box of Quaker Oats. Really? Which isn't going to hold much, unless Quaker Oats came in much larger, much stronger boxes back then. Wow.

    358: No Such Thing As The Gunfight At The Amazing Corral, 2021-01-29 · listen

  2. Speaking of cereal, they used to be called Cheery Oats. Oh. Did they? Quaker Oats owned the idea of having oats in cereal, so they had to remove the tea and call themselves Cheery Oats instead.

    No Such Thing As Uncle Egg, 2026-05-21 · listen

  3. That's allowed. It could be like, that's in the UK, for instance, whereas Cheery Oats would have been in America where, of course, Quaker Oats began. Also, not made by Quakers. Not even blooming Quakers.

    No Such Thing As Uncle Egg, 2026-05-21 · listen

  4. She's got quite an oat-based childhood. Her childhood was bookended by oats because then, after she graduated high school, she says that she got on a bus straight away to go to Nashville to make her fortune doing music in the city. She got on a bus with what she described as her suitcase, which was actually an empty box of Quaker Oats. Really? Which isn't going to hold much.

    No Such Thing As The Gunfight At The Amazing Corral, 2021-01-29 · listen

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