"OK" sign in the food industry

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January 1955, AMERICAN RESTAURANT MAGAZINE, pg. 48, col. 1.  The familiar
winking chef doing the "OK" sign is shown.  The page features recipes.

March 1955, AMERICAN RESTAURANT MAGAZINE, pg. 2.  This is an ad for LE GOUT,
FEARN FOODS.  Fearn Foods Inc. was based in Franklin Park, Illinois.  A
winking chef doing the "OK" sign is on the label of the product (chicken base
for soups and seasonings).  The chef is shown three times in this ad.  The LE
GOUT ads ran each issue and probably date much earlier than this.

July 1955, AMERICAN RESTAURANT MAGAZINE, pg. 118, col. 1.  The winking chef
doing the "OK" sign is in an ad for a restaurant range.  "More Chefs Prefer
VULCAN-HART."

September 1956, AMERICAN RESTAURANT MAGAZINE, pg. 89.  This is an ad for
Downyflake baking mixes.  A very cheesecake Katherine Harris-type waitress
hold a dish of cake in one hand and makes the "OK" sign with the other.
"NEW!  Downyflake adds the finishing touch of GLAMOR to CAKE."  This is the
earliest I've seen a woman give the sign (outside of the Ballantine ads)...I
don't know if Katherine Harris has these legs, though.