The food research part of our experiment has slipped a bit during the recent canning marathon, but today the garden and I blissfully ignored each other's existence, so:
* Not content with bizarre cheese substances, the manufacturers of Party Cheese aerosol cheese have also produced aerosol cream cheese, aerosol sour cream, and aerosol chocolate sauce. Not to neglect our four-legged friends, they also introduced a liver & peanut butter flavored aerosol product for dogs. You know, because dogs need something they can eat even faster.
* There are actually Hostess Teamsters (who are presumably NOT responsible for Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance unless he has been living at a fat farm for the last 30 years) and they went on strike in 2000. During the Great Twinkie Shortage, desperate consumers paid up to $5,000 for boxes of Twinkies. For the bargain price of $4000, I would cheerfully have baked them stale cakes filled with strange white goo.
* Tater Tots were invented as a way to use up little potato bits leftover from making French fries. The bits were originally sold as cattle feed, but there's a higher profit margin in people feed
* Ore-Ida conducted a Tater Tot Survey in 1994 and announced that the average human mouth can hold seven Tater Tots. Millions of Americans slept better knowing this.
* Jell-O was used to paint the "Horse of Many Colors" in the Wizard of Oz.
* Clamato launched an ad campaign in 1997 claiming that the drink was "99.9 percent clam free" in order to boost slumping sales. Why wouldn't you just change the name instead?
Actual factual information from Better Than Homemade by Carolyn Wyman.
Editorializing is strictly my own, unless you don't find it humorous. Then it's up for adoption.
1 comment:
I find this perplexing that it is actually factual information.
It is bad enough to serve up rubbish as animal food, but as people food?
I'd love to know what the makers of these products eat. Do they actually try these things out on themselves?
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