Who Is Ann Taylor Cook?
She's the woman who, as a baby, had her photo taken and put on every bottle of Gerber baby food ever shipped.
She is the one and only Gerber baby to date.
She's 77 years old now. She's a retired teacher and a part-time novelist.
Neat, huh?
Did you ever hear about the shock and horror experienced by Africans when they first received food aid in the form of Gerber baby food?
Seems that because of linguistic difficulties rivaled only by India, one almost always puts a picture of what's in a package on the label.
African's thought some kind of Soylent Green business was going on, and Gerber changed the labels shortly!
Urban legend or not, it's a funny tale of cross cultural confusion. :-)
Oh my, brings back memories of feeding my first son many years ago. His favorite was their blueberry fruit! He couldn't get enough and what a mess to clean up his blueberry face after he slurped it up. Ahh, the Gerber babies grew up.
I have heard the same story about the contents of baby food told by an anthropologist friend freshly returned from a couple years in back country New Guinea.
The pidgin name for canned food in general was "pisupo", because, apparently, that was most of what they first encountered. And since everything had a picture of the content...