The cereal is made of rice grains that are cooked, dried and toasted, resulting in crisped rice. When milk or cream is added, the thin walls of the rice collapse, making the famous sounds Snap! Crackle! and Pop! Â® These sounds became the slogan for Rice KrispiesÂ® and was featured on radio ads such as this one:
The inventor of the Gif file has revealed that the world has been mispronouncing his creation. Steve Wilhite, who invented the Gif file in 1987, told the New York Times that the word is pronounced âjifâ not âgiffâ. âThe Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft âG,â pronounced âjif.â End of story,â he said.
The Smurfs was first created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) in 1958, where they were known as Les Schtroumpfs.he name was later translated into Dutch as Smurf, which was adopted in English. With the commercial success of the Smurfs came the merchandising empire of Smurf miniatures, models, games, and toys. Entire collecting clubs have devoted themselves to collecting PVC Smurfs and Smurf merchandise.