"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible."
Quote:
Euell Gibbons
A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured Gibbons asking viewers "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." While he recommended eating Grape Nuts over eating pine trees (Grape Nuts' taste "reminds me of wild hickory nuts"), the quote caught the public's imagination and fueled his celebrity status.
Gibbons died on December 29, 1975, at Sunbury Community Hospital in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.[2] His death was the result of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, a complication from Marfan syndrome. Gibbons's health condition was possibly aggravated by smoking, a high fat diet, arthritis problems, and a lack of exercise.
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