Johann Sebastian Bach composed a cantata about coffee.
Coffee was popular in Bach’s day and the Kaffe-Kantate (“Coffee Cantata”) reflects that popularity. The operetta tells the story of a father who can’t get his daughter to stop drinking coffee. Eventually, she promises to stop long enough to find a husband, but privately vows that her future groom must sign a contract stating that she can drink as much java as she wants. Christian Friedrich Henrici wrote the libretto. Here’s a sample: “If I can’t drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.”
Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts were originally called Country Squares.
The name was always Pop-Tarts, but Post Cereals did release a similar product called Country Squares not long after Pop-Tarts came out. Introduced in 1964, the original Pop-Tarts flavors were Strawberry, Blueberry, Brown Sugar Cinnamon, and Apple, none of them frosted. Frosted Pop-Tarts were introduced in 1967. There are currently over 20 Pop-Tarts flavors; according to the company, the most popular are Frosted Strawberry, Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon, and S’mores.
Natalie Wood played a teenager in a TV series.
Natalie Wood was about 15 when she starred in a short-lived TV series called The Pride of the Family. The show aired from October 1953 to September 1954. The Pride of the Family also starred (as Natalie’s TV mother) Fay Wray, best remembered as the woman in King Kong (1933). Natalie’s TV father was played by Paul Hartman, who would go on to appear in The Andy Griffith Show as Emmett Clark, and in Petticoat Junction as Bert Smedley. A boy named Bobby Hyatt played Natalie’s TV brother. Coincidentally, Bobby Hyatt had an uncredited role in the 1947 classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street—the movie that made Natalie Wood a star.
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