amedeo obici
Roasted peanuts as a snack food
Being a kid!!
quick facts
- Obici è nato in Veneto Italia.
- Obici's father passed away when he was 7 years old!
Mario Peruzzi
- Obici è nato quindici lulio,1877.
- Lui morì at 69 anni.
- La casa di Obici è in Virginia.
- Lui è diligente.
- Lui è interessante.
- Lui è uomo d'affari (businessman).
- Obici worked in Musante's fruit store and was selling dried fruit
- He and the store owner decided to roast peanuts
- He and his boss agreed that the roasted peanuts were Abici's idea
- As a way to get people to buy the product they took a fan and blew the smell out into the street
- In addition Obici went to the metal scrap yard and built his own cart to sell the peanuts out in the street
- Peruzzi and Obici ran a restaurant that sold oyster stew and roasted peanuts
- Peruzzi"s first wife dies and marries Obici's sister Lizzie
Planters Peanuts
Promoting Peanut sales
America
Now there are many commercials about Planters Peanuts, here are some examples:
- Vittorio Sartori Obici's uncle offered to take Obici to America
- After alot of talk, Obici went with his uncle and found himself in Pennsylvania
- On each bag, he put A letter of his last name: O,B,I, and C
- He put the letter O on every 50 bags
- The person who won or bought the bag with the letter O won a "golden watch"
- The watch was really plastic and colored in gold which cost Obici a dollar to buy
- Peruzzi and Obici created Planters Peanuts
- At that time they only were selling peanuts
- In 1908 Obici had an idea and expanded there business from only peanuts to peanuts and chocolate
- In 1930 Obici discovered a new and better way to eat peanuts, and you needed to do was to skin them