

Good & Plenty Jingleīut Charlie’s true steam comes from the Good n’ Plenty jingle.

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He realized the power of TV marketing and helped launch the Choo-Choo Charlie advertising campaign in 1950, based on a real-life college football player he knew. In 1946, after serving as a counter-intelligence officer in World War II, Rosskam joined his family’s business. The sweet may have gone the way of thousands of industrial-revolution era candies were it not for family member Lester Rosskam. Good & Plenty entered this world around that time – in 1893 – a product of the family-owned Quaker City Confectionery Company of Philadelphia. Casey perished in the crash although everyone else survived. Apparently, Casey Jones made a heroic effort to save the train and everyone on board. The train collided with a stopped freight car. Jones and Sim Webb, his African American friend, and railroad fireman, were operating a passenger train in 1900. Jonathan Luther “Casey” Jones (Ma– April 30, 1900), born in a racially charged nation at the time of the Civil War, reveals the best of America. The other is the real-life engineer Casey Jones. One is Choo-Choo Charlie, the cartoon engineer whose train pulls dining cars, as he proclaims Good & Plenty “Really rings my bell” in television ads.

So how does a humble 19th-century candy become the nation’s oldest brand? The answer comes down to two American icons.
