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audra trower williams
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posted 15 August 2002 04:13 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You can't make this shit up.

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Cheetos Mystery Colorz: Frito-Lays Cheetos brand cheese snacks are already the best-selling cheese snack on the market (over $300 million in sales in 1999), and plans to keep its place with the introduction of Cheetos Mystery Colorz. The snack changes colors in your mouth, from its original cheesy orange to blue or green.

Also from the same site, failed products, ie:

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Wine & Dine Dinners: Heublein, a wine and liquor importer and distributor, introduced this product in the mid-1970's. "Wine & Dine Dinners" came with pasta and sauce mix and a mini bottle of salted wine that was intended for creating the sauce. However, this rather important instruction wasn't properly explained, and consumers assumed the wine was for drinking. The misunderstanding left a bitter taste in the mouths of unforgiving consumers.

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Sine Ziegler
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posted 15 August 2002 04:52 PM      Profile for Sine Ziegler     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Gross!!! I have a hard enough time watching people chew with their mouthes open!! Cheetos changing colours in your mouth? ick!
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Black Dog
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posted 15 August 2002 05:18 PM      Profile for Black Dog   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Jeebus! It's bad enough these products are already packed with lord-knows-what to give them their "real Cheeeze" taste and appearance. Damn them all and their delicious salty snax.
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Timebandit
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posted 15 August 2002 06:45 PM      Profile for Timebandit     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, if we ate Cheetos (which we don't), it's be handy to know which ones the short people had tried to lick all the "cheese" off and stuck back in the bowl...
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scrabble
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posted 15 August 2002 08:22 PM      Profile for scrabble     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
[note to self: if invited over to Zoot's, applaud the little somersaults on the grass but DO NOT EAT the pseudocheesechips]
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DrConway
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posted 16 August 2002 01:59 AM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I remember being totally blown away when I went into a Target in the United States and I saw PURPLE corn chips for the first time. I was even more shocked when I saw BLUE ones and then GREEN ones.


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scrabble
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posted 16 August 2002 04:37 AM      Profile for scrabble     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You mean Target hires people to pre-lick ALL THOSE CHIPS? Hope they get workers' compensation for the (purple / green / blue) tongue blisters
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DrConway
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posted 16 August 2002 12:44 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
*chuckle*

Actually, what happened was first I saw packages of purple corn chips. Then I went further down the aisle and I saw the green ones and then the blue ones.


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Trinitty
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posted 16 August 2002 12:51 PM      Profile for Trinitty     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
One of my favourite "As it Happens" moments was when Mary-Lou Finley interviewed the imperial margarine flacky who was announcing their new neon blue and pink spread. The flaky said "We here at ____ are confident that this product will enhance family time around the dinner table by making it more fun for children" She was speechless. Then managed "Wait aminute, did you just say that pink margarine would improve family life in our society?" Love that program.
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flotsom
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posted 16 August 2002 01:07 PM      Profile for flotsom   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I miss Alan Maitland
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paxamillion
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posted 16 August 2002 04:37 PM      Profile for paxamillion   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
*produces large cache of Aveeno baby products*

My son had terrible skin in his early days -- still does, in fact.


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audra trower williams
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posted 11 February 2004 11:59 AM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Bumping for amusement. The site's updated now.
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Albireo
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posted 11 February 2004 12:54 PM      Profile for Albireo     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
When I was a kid, some big snack-food company unleashed new fruit-flavoured potato chips for test marketing in our community. There were several kinds, I think grape, orange and strawberry. Yes, they were somewhat purple, orange and red (respectively). They tasted as if somebody had taken plain chips and sprinkled Kool-Aid powder all over them.

Being kids, my sisters and I loved them, of course, but not enough others did, so the world was forever deprived of grape chips.


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oldgoat
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posted 11 February 2004 01:10 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh God alberio, I remember those. It was Hostess chips. You must have been pretty young. I thought they were absolutely horrible.
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Michelle
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posted 11 February 2004 01:31 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think I remember back when ketchup chips came out when I was a kid - the adults I knew thought that was the grossest thing going, but that was one marketing gamble that paid off big. You just never know.
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al-Qa'bong
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posted 11 February 2004 01:55 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
When I was a kid, some big snack-food company unleashed new fruit-flavoured potato chips for test marketing in our community. There were several kinds, I think grape, orange and strawberry. Yes, they were somewhat purple, orange and red (respectively).


This is a rip-off of a comedy sketch from the Two Ronnies. No, really.

A pair of marketing flacks were trying to come up with newer, better products. Fruity and minty potato crisps were one idea, salt-and-vinegar or cheese-and-onion ice cream was another.


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Hinterland
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posted 11 February 2004 04:11 PM      Profile for Hinterland        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Although it sounds like a killer comedy sketch, I too remember the Hostess grape chips ...the only ones I actually tried; my little sister bought the orange ones....she still has trouble talking about it, although, thank God, she no longer needs the hand-puppet.
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Mr. Magoo
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posted 11 February 2004 04:32 PM      Profile for Mr. Magoo   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I remember the fruit flavoured chips. I tried the Orange, I believe. Baaad idea. Trying new products like this has always been my marketing weakness. Come out with chips I've never tried before and I will. Same with Kool-aid.

Anyone remember Taco flavoured Doritos? Or Pizza? Sour Cream and Onion? Or when was the last time you saw Roast Chicken flavoured potato chips?


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Michelle
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posted 11 February 2004 05:44 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well then, Magoo, I guess you'll be trying out the new Guacamole Doritos or Tostitos or whatever, that I noticed in the variety store on my corner last night while picking up laundry detergent. I didn't try them, but I will admit it's an interesting idea. I'm surprised they didn't think of it sooner.
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Mandos
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posted 11 February 2004 05:52 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I hope you're not too enthusiastic about new varieties of Koolaid.
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Mr. Magoo
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posted 11 February 2004 06:00 PM      Profile for Mr. Magoo   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wooooo! I'll get back to you.

(Actually, I don't eat chips too often anymore. New flavours are about the only time. I also kicked my 25 year-long Kool-Aid habit recently, but I'd let the monkey onto my back in a heartbeat if they came out with any neat flavours.


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Michelle
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posted 11 February 2004 11:27 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey, how about guacamole-flavoured kool aid?
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Anchoress
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posted 11 February 2004 11:35 PM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
In England, they have some *really* weird crisps flavours that are actually very popular; Chicken Korma and Chocolate are two I remember from when I was there - at the time I left, they were test-marketing a Yorkshire Pudding flavour - wonder how it did.
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Gir Draxon
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posted 11 February 2004 11:43 PM      Profile for Gir Draxon     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't see it there, but one of the scariest things I have seen is that bacon that claims to be ready after five seconds in the microwave
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Mr. Magoo
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posted 12 February 2004 12:11 AM      Profile for Mr. Magoo   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
I hope you're not too enthusiastic about new varieties of Koolaid.

No, I'm not. Where's the mango? Where's the honeydew? They don't seem interested in fruits anymore. Any new "flavours" are usually some generi-berry crap that purports to change colour when you mix it.

Did you know that there used to be a vibrant and active "Kool Aid" usenet newsgroup? It dissolved into chaos when the purists (who mostly discussed either where to get rare or out of production flavours, or which existing flavours to mix to get interesting blends) clashed head-on with the sk8board crowd who only wanted to discuss which Kool Aid flavours made the best temporary hair dye. Let the flame war begin!

quote:
Hey, how about guacamole-flavoured kool aid?

Why isn't there an emoticon called the 'hurlie'?
At any rate, you could drink it to wash down a Jalapeño chupachup lollipop (apparently available in South America).

[ 12 February 2004: Message edited by: Mr. Magoo ]


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