Trivia: What breakfast cereal is usually credited as having the first jingle?
Grape-Nuts
Frosted Flakes
Wheaties
Corn Flakes
The correct answer is Wheaties
So why is this answer correct? : Back in 1926, General Mills aired the first-ever commercial jingle during a radio advertisement for their cereal Wheaties. The breakfast staple was struggling at the time, so executives tried a novel strategy to promote sales, and it paid off. The jingle went, “Have you tried Wheaties? They’re whole wheat with all of the bran. Won’t you try Wheaties? For wheat is the best food of man.”