Talk:Eskimo Pie
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[edit] Choc Ice
This sounds a lot like a Chocice. Is it the same thing? Skittle 09:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Russell Stovers
The origin related here doesn't quite match up with the one on the Russell Stover Candies page. Does anyone know which is right? Rojomoke 12:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Neilson Dairy
This passage in the wikipedia entry is a unsupported conclusion:
In an apparent case of parallel development, the Eskimo Pie was also sold by Neilson Dairy in Toronto, Ontario starting in 1921. The summer treat was a means to combine two of the company's products, ice cream and milk chocolate, into one product.
Here are the sources:
from listed source http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8553.htm
On July 13, 1921, Nelson and chocolate maker Russell C. Stover entered into a joint agreement (other image) to market and produce the product. It was decided the name would change from Nelson's "I-Scream Bar" to "Eskimo Pie". In the hand-written agreement composed the same day the two met for the first time, the entrepreneurs agreed to "coat ice cream with chocolate [sic] divide the profits equally." They decided to sell the manufacturing rights to local ice cream companies for $500 to $1000, plus royalties on each Eskimo Pie sold.
Nelson and Stover began their business venture with an advertising campaign in Des Moines, Iowa. The first 250,000 pies produced were sold within 24 hours. By spring 1922, 2,700 manufacturers sold one million Eskimo Pies per day.
Then, from listed source http://www.neilsondairy.com/en/about_history.htm:
William's second son, Morden, took over the company at his father's death in 1915. But he had worked his way up through the company - starting as a milker and ice cream churner at the company's founding. Under his leadership, William Neilson Ltd. became the largest producer of ice cream in the British Commonwealth and the largest manufacturer of chocolates around the world, earning international renown.
Morden continued the traditions established by his father. He was a "hands-on" manager, intimately involved in the daily operations of the company. He was an innovative promoter: in summer 1921, he dressed a man in a heavy parker like an "Eskimo" to walk up and down Yonge Street to introduce Eskimo Pies.
Judging by this information there is nothing to suggest that Neilson Dairy did anything but license and manufacture Eskimo Pies under the standard agreements. Nor do they claim to have invented them, nor to have offered them before the Stover/Nelson agreement. Because of this, I am removing the initially quoted statement from the article but will leave record here of the original and my reasons for removal.
Cheridy (talk) 08:26, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
