Snap, Crackle and Pop Snap, Crackle and Pop Snap, Crackle and Pop are the cartoon mascots of Kellogg's crisped-rice breakfast cereal Rice Krispies. The gnomic elves characters were originally designed by illustrator Vernon Grant in the early 1930s. The names are an onomatopoeia and were derived from a Rice Krispies radio ad: The first character appeared on the product's packaging in 1933, Grant added two more and named the trio Snap, Crackle and Pop. Snap is usually portrayed with a chef's toque on his head; Crackle often is shown wearing a red (or striped) tomte's tuque or "sleeping cap," and Pop often wears a
Mary Sophia Hyde Rice William DeWitt Alexander, Samuel C. Armstrong and Sanford B. Dole, who became President of the Republic of Hawaii from 1894 to 1898 and later Governor of Hawaii Territory from 1900 to 1903. In 1854 the Rice family removed to Lihue, Kauai to run a sugar plantation. Queen Liliuokalani visited the Rice family at Lihue in 1891 during her circuit of the islands, recalling them fondly: "At Kauai we were most hospitably received and royally entertained by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rice. They took us to their handsome private residence at Lihue, to which there came all the principal people