[Revolting cat!]

Well, the name "Jimmy Dean" is meaningless to most people today. It's been, what, 40 years since his last hit. So what I predict we'll see is a transformation of Jimmy Dean a real person into Jimmy Dean a fictitious person like Betty Crocker. How else are they going to get out of this riddle if they are to keep the brand name?!

[Ragirl]

Maybe they are just afraid of being associated with the OTHER DEAN....