Why did funky fries fail

Nobody read them before they tried the cooking wine which was apparently really salty. The thing is, you can get blue potato chips that are actually made from blue potatoes. Somehow I sorta doubt that Heinz was doing anything but adding color to the standard thing. And the ingredients on the green ketchup indicates that once you get past the dominant ingredient which is, not surprisingly, corn syrup it starts with "red ripe tomatoes".

Adding green food coloring is one thing but I don't want to know how they bleached out the red color. Blue food is freaky. And Pepsi Blue tastes like Windex. Except that you weren't. I would so happily try that. If it was good mac n' cheese, then it could become the next best thing since the Jello Pudding Pop. Oddly enough, my girlfriend has long maintained that there isn't enough blue food in the world. Periodically, if I'm cooking something that has a pretty neutral color, I'll toss in some food coloring to make it blue just to make her giddy.

It does wonders to your bowel movements. I tried to like Orbitz. I really did. But I never could get past the revolting feeling of those little flavor dots passing through my lips into my mouth. I wonder if this means Heinz is going to discontinue the green and purple catsup as well.

I too am a firm believer in blue foods. There should be more blue food. But choco-fries are just evil. Like deep fried carbohydrates really needed sugar and caffeine added They came out in the late 70's and were a massive flop; even to my discerning 15 year old palate. Speaking of Orbitz, all the kids around here seem to dig the "bubble tea", which is, as far as I can tell, pretty much the same thing, only slightly healthier, and with much bigger goo balls.

Wow, candy cigarettes --I'd forgotten all about them And they still make them, too! Blue Smarties. Now there was a great idea. They'd had them in Europe for ages, but decided that the UK market couldn't handle blue food. Odd people.

Talking of bad tastes that ought to die out, how about Vanilla Coke and Lemon Coke? Coke and Lemon? But how the hell did they add such a fake tasting lemon flavour? As for Vanilla coke Chocolate in french fries is so different that consumers found no cord of familiarity with it. There aren't even chocolate-flavored potato chips out there. Anybody else remember with shudders of horror the revolting mistake that was fruit-flavoured potato chips?

Sometime in the late 70s I think memory's a little hazy , Hostess introduced Orange, Cherry, and Grape potato chips. The only bag of Cherry chips I tried was promptly buried on a nearby beach. Throwing them in the garbage just wasn't good enough. They had to close that beach down a year later from contamination. I don't think it was a coincidence. Real vanilla coke, with real vanilla syrup from the soda fountain, is the best thing ever.

But the bottled version tastes too chemical, and the diet vanilla coke is just ghastly because diet coke lacks that acidic tang to balance out the sweetness. The lemon coke in a bottle tastes like furniture polish.

I've heard tell of this, and I as hoping someone could back me up: Did McDonald's briefly test market a round hamburger shaped hot dog? I've heard that they did. Apparently, people were put off by it. Although I don't see why, really.

You could make ground up meat whatevers into any shape I guess. Anyway, if anyone has a link or anything about I'd be much obliged, as I ;be long wondered whether it was true or not. Anyone remember the lemon-flavored cigarettes from the late 80s? A long time ago, when I was in high school, someone brought some chocolate covered and mint covered pretzels to school. The chocolate covered pretzels were vaguely disgusting. The mint covered ones should have been marketed as a subsitute for ipecac syrup - I took one bite and spat it out because I knew I'd throw up if I swallowed it.

None of the 10 or so kids who tried a bite could eat the rest. Vile, vile, vile. In some cases I would prefer these over regular tater tots if cooked to the right golden brown-ness.

Kool Blue — Blue French fries. This was one that came directly from the market research folks who thought kids liked to eat and play with colorful food, and was probably designed for use with the various colored ketchups.

What were they thinking? It works for potato chips, and I know folks dip their fries in sour cream, so what happened? Sometimes you need the dip on the outside, not the inside. Even with some heavy marketing, the venture failed and kids were not charmed, nor were adults. I think Ore-Ida would like very much to forget these ever existed. Maybe someday it will be time for these bizarro French fries, but not yet Labels: cinna-stiks , cocoa crispers , crunchy rings , french fry diary , funky fries , heinz , ketchup , kool blue , Ore-Ida , sour cream and jive.

No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. I know I did. Heinz EZ Squirt ketchup Launch date: The not-so-bright idea: Non-red ketchup for kids The lesson learned: Heinz decided to cater to kids who love to play with food by offering its popular ketchup brand in multiple hues including green, purple and blue. The gambit was wildly successful the first couple of years. At the end of the day, however, most people still like to see red ketchup on their hot dogs, so the fad died out.

The last bottles of off-color ketchup were pulled from store shelves in Ore-Ida Funky Fries Launch date: The not-so-bright idea: French fries for kids with wacky flavors and colors The lesson learned: Hoping to capitalize on the initial EZ Squirt ketchup craze, Ore-Ida invented french fries with a twist: Now kids could really gross out their parents by dipping cinnamon-, chocolate- and sour cream-flavored or blue-colored spuds into their purple ketchup!

No, that's not a typo. Although it would be equally disgusting, we're talking about flower, not flour. Introduced in the late s, flower-flavored PEZ was designed to appeal to the hippie generation—complete with a groovy, psychedelic dispenser. But even in the decade of free love, no love could be found for the flavor power of flower. Floral scents make for great perfume, but nobody eats perfume, and apparently, there's a reason why.

The flower version flopped, and became the next addition to PEZ's long and disturbing list of flavor failures. Since its introduction in , the company has also sold coffee, licorice, eucalyptus, menthol, and cinnamon flavors. For as long as children have been shoving Brussels sprouts under mashed potatoes and slipping green beans to the dog, parents have been hunting desperately for a way to end the vegetable discrimination. Finally, in the s, American Kitchen Foods, Inc.

Not a chance. Children all over America saw through the ruse. After all, a pea is a pea is a pea, and the name of the product was more than apropos, no matter what it looked like. Fortunately for gastrointestinal tracts worldwide, this candy bar didn't actually include chicken in its list of ingredients.