Question: Fruit Gushers are produced by General Mills under a brand name represented by a character that was originally created by what company?
Context: Fruit Gushers (occasionally just called Gushers) are candies in the shape of elongated hexagonal bipyramids; made primarily from sugar and fruit juice, with small amounts of other ingredients.  Introduced in 1991, they are produced by General Mills under the Betty Crocker brand name, and may be found in generic forms as well.  The center of each gusher is a thick sweet liquid, and is surrounded by a chewy gelatinous sugar covering.  When one bites into the snack, the liquid inside "gushes" out, hence the name of the snack.  Fruit Gushers was the major sponsor for the YTV game show "Uh Oh! " from 2001 until the series ended in 2003. Joseph Benjamin Harris III (January 5, 1928 – March 26, 2017) was an American illustrator and storyboard artist.  He is best known for creating the Trix Rabbit, the cartoon mascot for General Mills' Trix breakfast cereal, who debuted in 1959.  He also penned the Trix rabbit's memorable commercial tagline, "Silly rabbit!  Trix are for kids", which is still utilized in General Mills' advertising campaign, as of 2017.  Additionally, in 1959 Harris, Chet Stover, and W. Watts Biggers co-founded Total Television, which produced Saturday morning cartoons.  Harris created some of Total Television's best known characters and series, including "King Leonardo and His Short Subjects" (1960–1963), "Klondike Kat" (1963–1965), and "Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales" (1963–1966).  His best known character creation was Underdog, the canine star of the animated series, "Underdog", from 1964 to 1967. Pillsbury is an American brand name used by Minneapolis-based General Mills and Orrville, Ohio-based J.M. Smucker Company.  Historically, the Pillsbury Company, also based in Minneapolis, was a rival company to General Mills and was one of the world's largest producers of grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought out by General Mills in 2001.  Antitrust law required General Mills to sell off some of the products.  General Mills kept the rights to refrigerated and frozen Pillsbury products, while dry baking products and frosting are now sold by Smucker under license. Carole MacGillvray Rappeport was an employee of the General Mills Toy Group.  As early as 1978, she was associate vice-president of Hasbro's toy marketing unit; in the early 1980s, she served as vice-president of U.S. marketing at General Mills' CPG (Consumer Products Group) division.  In February 1984, she became president of General Mills' M.A.D. (Marketing and Design) service, replacing Bernard Loomis.  In the mid-1990s, she ran a toy consulting company in Santa Barbara, California. Gardetto's is a brand of snack mix owned by General Mills, which also owns the similar Chex Mix.  The Gardetto Family Bakery was founded in 1932 in Wisconsin by Baptiste and Diane Gardetto and acquired by General Mills in 1999;.  According to the packaging, it was at the bakery that Judy Gardetto took the trimmings of breadsticks and mixed them in along with other snack bits and a blend of special seasonings. Rainbow Crafts Company, Inc. or, Rainbow Crafts was a toy manufacturing company created and operated by Noah McVicker and his nephew Joseph McVicker as a subsidiary of the midwestern soap company, Kutol Products.  The company manufactured Play-Doh, a modeling compound for children.  Rainbow Crafts operated under the McVickers from 1956 until 1965 when it was sold to General Mills with all rights to Play-Doh.  In 1971, Rainbow Crafts and Kenner Products (both subsidiaries of General Mills) merged, and, in 1987, Tonka Corporation bought both subsidiaries.  Hasbro currently manufactures Play-Doh. Wanchai Ferry is a brand of Chinese food dinner kits owned by General Mills.  The company's roots began in 1972 when Chong Kin Wo – often known as Madame Chong – began selling dumplings, a business that led to her "dumpling queen" nickname and the 1985 establishment of the Wanchai Ferry Peking Dumpling Company.  In 1997, Pillsbury Company entered a joint venture with Wanchai Ferry which led the brand to become part of General Mills when Pillsbury was acquired in 2001. Cookie Crisp is a breakfast cereal that attempts to recreate the taste of chocolate chip cookies.  It is manufactured by General Mills in the United States and Cereal Partners (under the Nestlé brand) in other countries.  Introduced in 1977, it was originally manufactured by Ralston Purina until they sold the trademark to General Mills in 1997, who soon after changed the recipe. French Toast Crunch is a breakfast cereal launched in 1995 naturally flavored to taste like French toast, by the General Mills company.  The cereal pieces originally looked like mini slices of French toast, but General Mills changed the cereal to a style similar in appearance to Cinnamon Toast Crunch; a thin, wavy square sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar flavoring. Betty Crocker is a fictional character used in advertising campaigns for food and recipes.  It was originally created by the Washburn-Crosby Company in 1921 following a contest in the Saturday Evening Post that required a female response.  In 1954, General Mills, an American Fortune 500 corporation branded the red spoon logo, giving various food-related merchandise the Betty Seal of Approval.  A portrait of Betty Crocker first commissioned in 1936 and revised several times since appears on printed advertisements and product packaging.  On television and radio broadcasts, Betty Crocker was portrayed by several actresses, most notably by Adelaide Hawley Cumming between 1949 and 1964.
Answer: Washburn-Crosby Company