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Come along with Tidbits as we remember foods that make you say, “What were they thinking?” KETCHUP & FRIES • The Heinz Company figured that if red ketchup was good, green ketchup would be even better. Called EZ Squirt, it was released in 2000, followed shortly after by purple ketchup and blue ketchup. They followed that with Mystery Color, which could be purple, orange, or teal. Special nozzles made it easy to draw colored pictures or write words when dispensing the product. Colored ketchup was popular at first, selling 25 million bottles the first year, but by 2006 it had outlived its novelty and was discontinued. • In 2002, Ore-Ida, which is owned by Heinz, thought that a way of improving upon their potato empire was to release a line of new products called “Funky Fries.” Instead of boring French fries, you could have Kool Blue French fries, or Cocoa Crispers (chocolate-flavored fries) or Cinna-Stiks (cinnamon-covered fries). Turned out blue fries look moldy, chocolate fries turned everyone off, and cinnamon fries were so cloyingly sweet that they were more like a dessert. By 2003, this line of new potato products had been withdrawn from the shelves. Yet, for a short time in history, it was possible to put green ketchup on blue fries. • The company that manufactured Reddi-Wip, (cont’d next page)

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which freed people from having to whip their own cream, experimented with a new product designed to free them from the onerous chore of frying bacon. Called Reddi-Bacon, it consisted of four pre-cooked slices of bacon enclosed in a foil packet along with a paper towel to absorb grease. Just pop the entire packet into your toaster and wait for hot crispy bacon to pop up. Unfortunately, the bacon grease congealed inside the foil packet had a disconcerting way of melting under the heat of the toaster and dripping into the hot toaster coils, starting grease fires. The product died before ever being released to the public. • In 1998 Kellogg thought they would simplify the complicated process of pouring milk over a bowl of cereal by packaging the whole kit and caboodle together. A single serving of cereal was packaged with a single serving of shelfstable milk which would stay fresh at room temperature. A plastic spoon was included as well. The product was dubbed “Breakfast Mates.” It was doomed from the beginning for four reasons. First, it was placed in the refrigerated section of supermarkets because people are turned off by room-temperature milk, no matter how safe it is. Yet, people never thought to shop for breakfast cereal in the refrigerated section of their supermarket. Second, it cost $1.50 for a single serving, which was about the same price as a whole box of cereal or an entire gallon of milk. Third, though it was marketed as a way for kids to get their own breakfast while the parents slept in, it turned out that prying open the package of milk was far more difficult than unscrewing the lid to a gallon jug of milk, so the milk tended to spill all over the kitchen counter. Fourth, when stored in the pantry or kitchen cabinets at home, it resulted in warm milk on cold cereal, when everyone prefers cold milk on cold cereal. The product struggled for two years before dying. • Gerber’s baby food company made a serious miscalculation when they marketed a line of food for grown-ups in 1974. Called “Singles,” (cont’d on next page)

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the product consisted of delicious and inviting meals for one: Creamed Beef, Beef Burgundy, Chicken Madeira, Beef with Mushroom Gravy, Mediterranean Vegetables, Blueberry Delight and more. All were packaged in over-size baby food jars. It turned out that no one wanted to be caught eating Gerber’s baby food for adults. • In an effort to compete with coffee, the Pepsi company released a new product in 1989. Called “Pepsi AM,” it contained “all the sugar and twice the caffeine” as regular Pepsi. With 28% more caffeine than a cup of coffee, it was designed to give extra morning pep. They found in short order that people just don’t want to drink Pepsi with their bagels or eggs or donuts; that people tend to prefer hot drinks with their breakfast; and because the product was named “Pepsi AM” people didn’t think about drinking it at other times of the day. • Heublein was a company that manufactured alcoholic beverages, later branching out into food products as well. But they had a spectacular failure in the mid-1970s when they came out with Heublein’s Wine & Dine. It looked like an upscale Hamburger Helper, and it included a tiny bottle of wine. On the surface it looked simple and straightforward, which is why people didn’t bother to read the complete directions. They boiled the pasta, added the sauce mix, stirred in the ground beef, then popped open the tiny bottle of wine to enjoy a drink with their dinner. However, the wine was supposed to be added to the pasta sauce and stirred into the meal, not sipped from a wine glass. Various seasonings and salt were dissolved in the wine, which tasted great in the sauce but terrible when drunk straight-up. The product died a speedy death. • McDonald’s introduced the McHotdog which fizzled in the U.S. but caught on in Japan. The McDonald’s McPizza also failed, as did McSpaghetti. To entice Catholics who were barred (cont’d on next page)

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FOOD FLOPS (cont’d) from eating meat on Fridays at the time, Mc Donald’s once offered the Hula burger, which consisted of pineapple and melted cheese on a bun. Catholics didn’t go for it. The McAfrica consisted of beef, cheese, and tomatoes wrapped in pita bread and covered with a sauce supposedly based upon an authentic African recipe. It was released in 2002, at a time when many countries in Africa were dealing with a devastating famine. A public relations nightmare resulted. • In 1994, the Original Pet Drink Company based in Florida introduced bottles of flavored water for pets. The carbonated, vitamin-enriched beverage came in Crispy Beef for dogs and Tangy Fish for cats. The drink was even approved by the FDA for human consumption, in case anyone had a hankering for sirloin- or

fish-flavored water, which they didn’t. Neither did the dogs or cats. • In 1997, the Clearly Canadian Beverage Corporation introduced a new beverage that was part drink and part lava lamp. The fruitflavored drink was spiked with little edible gelatin balls suspended in the liquid. Called Orbitz, and dubbed “a texturally enhanced alternative water,” it tasted like cough syrup and looked odd. People didn’t want textured drinks: you’re either drinking or eating and mixing the two didn’t work. • In the 1970s, American Kitchen Foods thought that if they shaped peas to look like French fries, kids would love ’em. They called the product “I Hate Peas” but it turns out kids hate peas no matter what shape they are in. They also hated “I Hate Corn,” “I Hate Broccoli,” “I Hate Spinach,” and “I Hate Carrots.”

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• In 1968, researchers for Procter & Gamble were experimenting with fats that could be easily digested by premature infants in order to help tiny babies gain weight more quickly. Their method was to fiddle with sucrose molecules, manipulating them into configurations that they hoped would be easier for delicate digestive systems to absorb. However, no matter how much of the substance they fed to babies, the babies failed to gain weight. • What they intended to invent was an easily digested high-calorie baby formula. What they inadvertently invented instead was a fat-substitute that would pass through the digestive tract without being absorbed into the body at all. • They called the new substance Olestra, presumably from “oil” plus “ester,” with ester being the stuff that binds the oil to the sucrose. It’s also known by the brand name Olean. • The key is in the molecular structure: triglycerides consist of three fatty acids bonded to a “backbone” of glycerol. But Olestra is synthesized from sucrose and vegetable oil, and it can bond to up to eight different fatty acids. This makes a molecule of Olestra so gangly, unwieldy, and cumbersome that digestive enzymes released from the pancreas don’t recognize it as food and ignore the substance. It therefore passes through the digestive tract without being absorbed. The researchers had not found the baby formula they were looking for, but they had stumbled instead on a diet food. • The new substance was dubbed a “sucrose (continued on page 6)

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OLESTRA (cont’d) polyester,” a synthetic fat substitute made by altering the chemical components of vegetable oil and sugar. It has the satisfying taste and feel of fat, without adding any absorbable calories. • The FDA approved it as a food additive in 1996, and in 1998 Frito-Lay rolled out their new line of “WOW!” chips that had been fried in Olestra instead of normal fats. “No fat! Few calories!” shouted the advertising. • However, there were drawbacks. One problem was that Olestra tended to bond with fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, and vitamin A and flush them out of the body. Extra vitamins were added to the products that used Olestra in order to counteract this. But main problem was that because the fat was not absorbed, it was flushed from the body, sometimes in an uncontrollably messy way. The FDA subsequently required warning labels cautioning people about possible side effects such as gastrointestinal upset. • People were not very fond of chips that carried a warning label about gastrointestinal upset. Sales of the chips declined precipitously before being removed from the market, though there are still products on supermarket shelves that contain Olestra, such as some Pringles varieties and Lay’s Light Chips. • Procter and Gamble were not done with Olestra, however. It turns out there are other uses for a sucrose polyester. Marketed under the name “Sefrose,” it’s used as an industrial lubricant and paint additive. Because it’s made by chemically binding sugar and vegetable oil, it has no toxic fumes and is much more environmentally friendly then paints made from petrochemicals. It’s used for deck stains and as a lubricant for power tools. • There are also practical applications for Olestra as a medicine. Because it binds so readily to so many things, it can lower cholesterol, it can remove toxins such as dioxin from the brain, and it can treat poisoning due to PCB contamination in the body.

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THE PHANTOM KILLER • The police in Germany were on the trail of a rare creature in 2007: a female serial killer. DNA evidence from over 40 crimes had been linked to her. They had been tracking her for over two years, carefully collecting DNA at the scene of her crimes using cotton swabs. When a young policewoman was brutally murdered in the German town of Heilbronn and DNA was found on the scene, the mysterious and prolific killer was dubbed “The Phantom of Heilbronn.” • A $400,000 reward was offered for information. Experts who analyzed the DNA said the suspect came from an Eastern European background. The Heilbronn police racked up 16,000 fruitles hours of overtime pursuing the culprit without results. Psychics and fortune-tellers were consulted. • Police were perplexed, however. They found DNA that was an exact match for the Phantom’s on several cold cases, including a murder dating all the way back to 1993. Her DNA was linked to not only six homicides, but also to a robbery at a car dealership, and a break-in at a school. What sort of serial killer is also a common thief? There was no pattern to her crimes. She burgled a business in Austria, robbed a jewelry store in France, and mugged a woman at a clubhouse in Germany. She stole numer3rd Quarter 2016 ous cars and motorbikes throughout the entire region.Week DNA34 that came from other people who must have been her accomplices showed no August 14 -August 20 rhyme or reason. When witnesses described Page her, they often8 claimed she was a man. • Yet, her DNA was found on a cup at the home of a murdered woman. It was found on a heroin syringe found in a park. It was found on a halfeaten cookie at the scene of a break-in, and on a stone used for smashing a window. (continued on next page)

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