A very important discovery concerning the "brick mush man"

We've been perplexed by brick mush and later, we probably figured it out. However, the whole concept of a "brick mush salesman" mystified even the best of us, including myself. There's NO WAY a man went door to door selling polenta, right?

Right?

Wrong.

From a 1906 Ithaca, New York paper, classified section:

January 2, 1906 Ithaca Daily News, page 7