Several years ago, my Grandma told me about a man known as the “Wonder Bread Giant.” He was apparently some sort of mascot for Wonder Bread. I don’t know exactly how tall he was, but I’m quite certain that he was over 7 feet–my impression is 7’ 4", but I’m not sure.
I have tried to learn more about him, but Wikipedia, rather astonishingly, doesn’t have an article. I’ve tried Googling his nickname, lists of tallest people, and everything else I can think of, but no significant results. About the only thing I’ve found at all was a comment somewhere written by someone who had seen him at some event.
Does anybody know his real name, or anything else about him?
No, there’s no way that it could be a case of mistaken identity. Somewhere–and of course I can’t find it now that I want it–my family has a picture of this man dressed in sort of a baker’s work uniform.
The only concrete mention of him that I have been able to find on the internet is on this page. Scroll down to the top comment.
Wonder Bread has been around for a long time, and changed ownership several times also. There were plenty of opportunities to have an advertising campaign with a giant in it. Their slogan was something like “Building bodies in 12 different way”, so using a giant to demonstrate the growing ability of the product would make sense.
I’m wanting to say he was called “Chris, the Wonder Giant.”
He was on either Captain Kangaroo, as a guest, or else on some local children’s show in about 1966, at least. I remember meeting/seeing him at some store. Don’t remember his face, tho, or his uniform.
I did a web search for “picture of kris the wonder bread giant” and came up with [=wonder%20bread&filters[primary]=images&sort=1&o=26"]this picture](Photobucket | Make your memories fun
