The Southern Oil Company first marketed it as the ‘Snowdrift” brand of cooking oil. But later, the cooking oil was renamed after the man who was responsible for the discovery of the product. It came to be known as the Wesson brand of the cooking oil. Thus the two names Wesson Oil and Snowdrift has been intertwined from the beginning. More @Wikipedia
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