Top 5 Sexiest Food Mascots
#2 – Warmth. Home. Oozing country-side levels of sexiness. Those are the themes that come to mind whenever we see a box of Sun-Maid Raisins. The original rendition of the “Sun-Maid Girl” was based on Lorraine Collet Petersen, a high school student and part-time seeder and packer for a fruit company in Fresno, CA back in 1915.
She was spotted by an executive in the backyard of her family’s home, drying her curly brown hair and wearing her mother’s red bonnet. Shortly after, the company hired her to promote the company and they commissioned a watercolor portrait of the young girl to be the basis of what would become the “Sun Maid” corporate mascot we’re so terribly desecrating with this article.
Something about a girl holding a basket of fruit in the colorful sun that just makes hearts go warm. In the years following, the Sun-Maid Girl found herself getting a remarkable makeover, appearing as an animated 3-D model in television commercials:
