08/28/00: The inventor of Lucky Charms cereal is dead

Posted By: Illinois_Stan

From today's (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, page B7:

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John Holahan, 83, a former General Mills vice president, apparently ran a stop sign at County Rd. 6 and Willow Drive in Osseo, steering into a truck's path.

[His wife,] Rosalind, 84, died at the scene; John Holahan died four hours later.

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John Holahan was the man who created Lucky Charms cereal.

For years he would share that story with home economics students at Annandale Middle School. He would recall stumbling upon orange marshmallow peanuts while brainstorming in supermarket aisles in 1963. About taking them back to the lab, cutting them up and then sprinkling them over Cheerios.

"I knew we had a winner," John Holahan would say later.

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Man, I can hardly believe that once upon a time I ate those things. --Illinois_Stan

Responses to this message:

• Re: The inventor of Lucky Charms cereal is dead Ringo_ate_my_baby
• It's good to see an Irish person die. The_Conspirator
• I was nowhere NEAR Minnesota! convenor
• Well, forensics shouldn't have too hard a job Ken_Kaminski
• wonder what marshmellow will come out next? <nt> DMagic
• The next marshmellow charms Qwellion
• haha DMagic
• Frosted Lucky Charms... skilly

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