The Pillsbury Doughboy, the advertising mascot of the Pillsbury Company, was introduced to the world on this date, March 18, in 1965. At least according to some trivia lists. Others say it was November 7, 1965. Pillsbury, apparently, says they have no idea. We here at the BRI are going to go with today. Why? Because it’s today, and we had to do something.

And we mostly want to give our regards to “Poppin’ Fresh” because without him—and the Michelin Man—we would never have had the “Stay Puft Marshmallow Man,” from 1984’s Ghostbusters. And for that we are very grateful.

Extra: From the first link above we found something that not even Uncle John knew: The voice of the original Pillsbury Doughboy was played by Paul Frees—the same guy who did Boris Badenov of the original “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.”