![]() ![]() I’m sure I will devolve into stridency on some topics (gun control!) and silliness on others this is an experiment as I try to find my way to a tone that feels right and a perspective that feels worthy of sharing. So, while I have some serious stuff on my mind, I’m going to strive not to be a Peek Frean as I work to sort it out in this blog. They’re earnest but they’re boring, and boring is deadly. Still, though my mother is long gone, and though there is arguably more and more to be serious about in our complicated world, and less and less to find funny, I still think of humorless, extraordinarily serious people as Peek Freans. (This episode was particularly ironic, by the way, because the aforementioned boyfriend’s mother was the Peek Frean Queen.) Huntington Stone, a major shareholder, died in 1916 and left a gross estate valued at £239,580. The first shipments of Peek Freans biscuits to Canada. In about 1920, Peek, Frean & Company Limited merged with its major competitor, Huntley & Palmers, to become Associated Biscuit Manufacturing Ltd. The name is a combination of the surnames of its founders: James Peek and George Hender Frean. Sales doubled and profits almost quadrupled between 19. Peek Freans was founded in London, England in 1857. Peek Frean introduced the Custard Cream biscuit in 1913. but that was almost surely the appropriated term’s high usage point. Peek Frean established the Meltis chocolate factory, with a staff of 130 people, in Bedford in 1913. I thought we might even be on our way to creating a new colloquialism when my high school boyfriend’s mother, an NYU law professor, one day accused the students in her lecture of being Peek Freans and they clapped. And we started referring to folks who took themselves and their opinions too seriously that way. So my mom and I decided, obviously, that people who lacked a sense of humor were Peek Freans. If you’re a grown up or plan to be one, you’ll know what we mean. Peek Freans are extraordinarily serious cookies. Peek Feans are much to good to waste on children. The jingle features the lyrics: “Peek Freans are a very serious cookie. They’re made for grown-up taste. Back in the day, there was a catchy radio jingle for them that my mom and I loved to sing. Peek Freans were some sort of buttery cookies that came in a tin, I think, though I never had them.
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