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That personal touch of Cole fulfilling deliveries helped keep business going for the shop. If it takes making the ice cream, packaging it myself and driving it to you, so be it. Even throughout the pandemic, Cole has been committed to giving back to the community.

He and his employees continue to give out food once a week and have given out boxes of food to families in need. Cole also helped facilitate the distribution of turkeys this past Thanksgiving and coats during Christmas. Cole hopes that someday he can bring his ice cream to the White House, following in the footsteps of Augustus Jackson, an African-American ice cream maker who served as a chef there in the s.

For more information, visit mikeylikesiticecream. By Emily Davenport 0. About the Author. The commercial was filmed in when he was just three and a half years old, and by it was being aired nationally and ran through Not too bad considering that little Mikey never uttered a single word in the commercial. Gilchrist and his six siblings got into acting as children at the suggestion of a family friend.

The family was at a Long Island beach for the day when they were told that their kids and their freckled faces were just the all-American look producers were looking for. Eventually, all of the siblings ended up acting making more money in one day than their father made at his job all week.

The money they brought in put the kids through college. It was just part of their lives. They thought all kids acted. The kids were not only comfortable acting, but they also had a natural dynamic being real-life brothers.

It was a dream come true for producers. The commercial was a huge hit with kids and parents alike. Not only did it help to sell a lot of Life Cereal, but it ended up being ranked as the No. Still today, little Mikey is brought up in conversation when someone is a picky eater. John Gilchrist as little Mikey. Source: mysanantonio. Pop Rocks is an effervescent candy containing pressurized carbon dioxide gas.

When it comes into contact with saliva, the solid candy dissolves and the gas is released, emitting a fun popping sound and causing a tactile sensation on the tongue.

Pop Rocks were introduced in by General Foods, and were a hit with kids, though their signature trait dealt with chemistry your typical pre-teen could hardly understand. Rumors about Pop Rocks, and what they might do if combined with soda, and what they actually did to John Gilchrist, surfaced around , and eventually reached Gilchrist's family.

Gilchrist's mother had soothing news: John was just fine. John Gilchrist, Mikey from the Life cereal commercial, is alive and well. General Foods was so vexed by the rumors about its famous or infamous candy that the company issued statements to parents' groups and school and ran newspaper advertisements, that tried to assure the public that Pop Rocks were safe. In , General Foods stopped making Pop Rocks, explaining that it just wasn't a successful product. For gullible kids, the disappearance of the product only confirmed the rumors about Mikey -- Pop Rocks had been taken off the market, they figured, because they had killed a kid.

John Gilchrist in an ad intended to reprise the role of Mikey in the Life Cereal commercial. Source: monagiza. Unlike many child actors , Gilchrist has fond memories of his childhood and acting career. He eventually moved on from acting but not before he had been in about commercials. He acted outside commercials as well, although he was passed over for some that he auditioned for in favor of the likes of Rodney Allen Rippy, Haywood Nelson, and Ricky Schroder.

No, he does not get a free lifetime supply. No, he was not a particularly picky eater as a child. Yes, he really is the guy who played one on TV. One day in the late s, his mother summoned him from a playground baseball game to tell him she had received a call from a concerned friend who said, through tears, "I'm so sorry to hear about your son.

So it goes at the center of a pop culture artifact -- a Life cereal spot that lived for more than a decade and starred Gilchrist, known in the ad as "Mikey," and his two real-life brothers, Tommy and Mike.

You surely remember it if you are over 40, and you surely know of it if you grew up in a family with a fussy eater, meaning a grown-up at some point said, "Mikey likes it! That line never actually is uttered in the ad. When little Mikey, who usually "hates everything," starts to eat the cereal, his older brother says, "He likes it! Hey Mikey! No matter. He ordered a healthy salad and iced tea. Since shifting away from acting while at Iona College , Gilchrist, 44, has been in ad sales, first in radio, including a stint at ESPN , and now for MSG Networks, where he is director of media sales, primarily negotiating with advertisers on TV ads.

So without sounding too sappy, I jumped at the opportunity to come over here.