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Here are the original versions of seven household words:

1. Levi’s Jeans-“waist high overalls”

2. Peanut butter-marketed as “Nuttose”

3. Sunshine Biscuits-“Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.”

4. Trader Vic’s-“Hinky Dinks”

5. Punch and Judy shows-“Punch and Joan”

6. Mt. Vernon-“Hunting Creek Plantation”

7. Lobster Newburg-“Lobster Wenberg” (after shipping magnate Ben Wenberg)