With all the pots and pans I've scrubbed over the decades and with all the S.O.S pads that graced the soapdish over our kitchen sink for years, I never knew - but wondered ... when it occured to me to wonder about it - what the S.O.S stood for or the origin of the name for those scruffy little pads. Until today.  But first ... the back story. In San Francisco, in 1917, a salesman...

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