Junk Food Nation
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riZona The Arizona Beverage is a popular product line of various flavors of iced tea and energy drinks from the United States, based in Queens, New York[1]. The Arizona Beverage Company is a branch of Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, which started out as a brewery in New York City. Arizona is known for its product line of “tall boy� drinks of 23.5 (recently scaled down to a flat 23) fl. oz. iced teas and other beverages for around $0.99 USD. AriZona Won many packaging awards such as The Beverage Packaging Global Design Awards, the International Brand Packaging Awards, were two-time winners of the Clear Choice Award, and took First place for Packaging design in the MOBIUS Advertising Awards.
Ubblicious Bubblicious is a brand of bubble gum produced by Cadbury Adams. It was launched in the United States in 1977, in response to the tremendous sales of Bubble Yum, the first soft, no-face-sticking bubble gum. There are 23 flavors of Bubblicious, 6 of which have been discontinued, and 1 of which was discontinued and then re-introduced. The original Lightning Lemonade flavor was discontinued in the year 2000. However, in 2005 the flavor was re-introduced as LeBron’s Lightning Lemonade, based on a partnership between Bubblicious and basketball player LeBron James. Although the flavor was re-introduced, it was changed (it had raspberry flavor added to it).
oca- Cola Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines worldwide (The CocaCola Company claims that it is sold in over 200 countries [1]). It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia and is often referred to simply as Coke or (in European and American countries) as Cola or Pop. Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft drink market throughout the 20th century.
r. Pepper The Arizona Beverage is a popular product line of various flavors of iced tea and energy drinks from the United States, based in Queens, New York[1]. The Arizona Beverage Company is a branch of Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, which started out as a brewery in New York City. Arizona is known for its product line of “tall boy� drinks of 23.5 (recently scaled down to a flat 23) fl. oz. iced teas and other beverages for around $0.99 USD. AriZona Won many packaging awards such as The Beverage Packaging Global Design Awards, the International Brand Packaging Awards, were two-time winners of the Clear Choice Award, and took First place for Packaging design in the MOBIUS Advertising Awards.
ight Moments Eight Moments is an exciting new product range from Cadbury. Each pack contains eight individually wrapped pieces – perfectly sized two-bite sticks, with indulgent melt-in-the-mouth truffle centres covered in Cadbury milk chocolate. There are 3 different types to eight moments chocolate Velvety Milk – soft milk chocolate truffle covered in delicious Cadbury milk chocolate Deliciously Dark – smooth dark chocolate truffle, covered in delicious Cadbury milk chocolate Indulgently Praline – praline truffle with caramelised hazelnut pieces covered in delicious Cadbury milk chocolate
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resca
Fresca is a brand of citrus soft drink made by The Coca-Cola Company. First introduced in the United States in 1963, the drink is now sold throughout the world, although it is not widely available outside of North America. Unlike other Coke products, it does not have a Pepsi equivalent (although in many markets, Pepsico licenses, produces and distributes “Diet Squirt,� a very similar beverage owned by Dr Pepper & Seven-Up, Inc.).
oldfish Goldfish are American snack crackers manufactured by Pepperidge Farm. The crackers come in several flavors and are shaped and colored like small, cartoonish goldfish. Approximately half of the crackers have smiles, while the others lack any expression. The brand’s advertising emphasizes this by referring to the crackers with the registered trademark “The snack that smiles back! Goldfish!”. In addition, the list of ingredients on its packaging states “made with smiles”. Goldfish Crackers are baked and do not contain any trans fat.
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äagen-Dazs
Häagen-Dazs is an American brand of ice cream, established by Polish immigrants Reuben and Rose Mattus in The Bronx, New York in 1959. Starting with only three flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and coffee, the company opened its first retail store in Brooklyn NY in 1975 and then offered franchises throughout the United States and 54 other countries around the world. Häagen-Dazs produces ice cream, ice cream bars, sorbet, and frozen yogurt. Contents The ice cream comes in many different flavors and is a “superpremium” brand, meaning it uses high quality ingredients, is quite dense, uses no emulsifiers or stabilizers other than egg yolks, and has a high butterfat content. Häagen-Dazs is also meant to be kept at a temperature that is substantially lower than most ice creams in order to keep its intended firmness. It is sold both in grocery stores and in dedicated retail outlets serving ice cream cones, sundaes, and so on.
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ce breakers
Ice Breakers is a sugar-free brand of gum and disc-shaped mint candy currently made by The Hershey Company. They were first produced by Nabisco in 1996, then acquired by Hershey in 2000. They come in several flavors, including peppermint, wintergreen, cinnamon, fruit sours (made up of a mixture of 4 sour flavors: pink lemonade, apple, tangerine, and watermelon), berry sours (a mix of 3 flavors: berry splash, strawberry, and raspberry lemonade), and tropical sours (a mix of 4 flavors: tangerine passion, lime coconut, peach dragonfruit, and mango margarita). The candies are generally white in color and speckled with other colors to indicate their flavor. These candies are sugar-free, instead using Sorbitol as a sweetener.
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Jones Soda Co. is a Canadian beverage company based in Seattle, Washington. It bottles and distributes soft drinks, noncarbonated beverages, energy drinks, and candy. Jones Soda is a carbonated soft drink that has many unusual flavors that are not offered by other soft drink makers. Jones Soda continually changes the photographs on its Soda and Naturals labels. Except for Root Beer, Vanilla Cola and certain Fufu Berry bottles, the photos are all black and white. Its website features a database of several thousand submitted pictures, as well as an archived collection of internal company notes, detailing which pictures appeared when, on what flavors (for collectors of the images). Customers can also submit fortunes to be printed underneath the bottle cap.
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inder Surprise
Kinder Surprise, also known as a Kinder Egg, is a confection originally intended for children in the form of a chocolate egg containing a small toy, often requiring assembly. In Europe, their popularity has spread beyond their intended market, and they have become a minor cult phenomenon among adults. There is even a thriving collector’s market for the toys. This is especially true in Germany, where the manufacturer includes higher-quality toys than those available elsewhere. There are many types of toys available, but some of the most popular with collectors include the ever-changing series of small hand-painted figures, which are said to be in every seventh egg; cartoon characters; metal figures and jigsaw puzzles. Seasonal eggs are introduced around the holidays, such as the limited-edition creche collections found around Christmas, and the huge ones found at Easter (extremely popular in Italy).
indor Lindt & Spr端ngli AG, more commonly known as Lindt, is a Swiss premium chocolate and confectionery company. Contents Lindor is a type of chocolate produced by Lindt, which is characterized by a hard chocolate shell and a smooth chocolate filling. Originally it was a truffle ball that Lindt & Spr端ngli introduced in 1955. It comes in both a ball and bar variety as well as in a variety of flavours, each flavour having its own colour wrapper.
&M’s M&M’s Chocolate Candies are candy-coated pieces of milk chocolate with the letter “M” printed on them, produced by Mars, Incorporated. Several variations of the candies exist, including plain, peanut, mint, crispy, peanut butter, and almond. First produced in the mid 1940’s, the candies were originally manufactured in brown, yellow, orange, red, and green. The letter “m” on each candy is a vegetable dye printed using a process similar to offset printing.
estea Nestea is a brand of iced tea manufactured by Nestle and distributed by Nestle company’s beverage department in the United States and by Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW), a joint venture between The Coca-Cola Company and Nestle, in the rest of the world. It competes with Unilever’s Lipton Iced Tea. It provides a variety of “tea products”, in regular and diet forms, including liquid and powdered tea concentrates, refrigeratable teas, and ready-to-drink bottles dispensed by vendor or vending machine. The beverage comes in several flavors, depending on the country.
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Oh Henry! is a candy bar containing peanuts, caramel and fudge, coated in chocolate and contrary to popular belief, it contains absolutely no nougat. It was first introduced in 1920, by the Curtiss Candy Company of Chicago, Illinois. According to legend, Oh Henry! was originally named after a boy who frequented the Williamson company, flirting with the girls who made the candy. The name is also said to be a homage to American writer, O. Henry. These stories are probably apocryphal. The candy bar was invented by a man named Tom Henry of Arkansas City, Kansas. Tom Henry ran a candy company called the Peerless candy factory, and in 1919 he started making the Tom Henry candy bar. He sold the candy bar to Curtiss Candy Company in 1920 where they later changed the name to “Oh Henry!”. Henry’s family now runs a candy factory in Dexter, Kansas that sells “momma henry” bars, which are near identical to the original candy bar.
epsi Pepsi is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in retail stores, restaurants, cinemas and from vending machines. The drink was first made in the 1890s by pharmacist Caleb Bradham in New Bern, North Carolina. The brand was trademarked on June 16, 1903. There have been many Pepsi variants produced over the years since 1898, including Diet Pepsi, Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Pepsi Max, Pepsi Free, Pepsi AM, Pepsi Samba, Pepsi Blue, Pepsi Gold, Pepsi Holiday Spice, Pepsi Jazz, Pepsi X (available in Finland and Brazil), Pepsi Next (available in Japan and South Korea), Pepsi Raw, Pepsi Retro in Mexico, Pepsi One, Pepsi Ice Cucumber and Pepsi White in Japan.
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Qoo is a non-carbonated beverage from the Coca-Cola Company. Originally introduced in Japan in 1999, Qoo is now available throughout much of Asia in a variety of flavors including grape and orange. In Germany, the product line was discontinued in November 2005. The name comes from the mascot’s reaction to tasting the drink. The mascot was designed by Momoko Maruyama, who created Deko Boko Friends. The Jingle, for the original Japanese version, is sung by Londell “Taz” Hicks, an American now living in Japan who also does the voice for the character Fo-Fo in “Deko Boko Friends”
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olo
Rolo is a brand of cylinder-shaped chocolates with a caramel centre. They are made by Nestlé, except in the United States where the rights have been held by The Hershey Company since 1969. They were advertised for many years with the slogan “Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?” In the UK, they are made at Fawdon in Tyneside by Nestlé Rowntree. They were first made originally in 1938 by Rowntrees in York.[1] Mackintosh toffee was coated with chocolate. There have now been Rolo cookies, ice-cream, muffins, birthday cake, desserts, cake bars, mini Rolos, big Rolos, (which all use exactly the same type of caramel) yogurts and Easter eggs made. There is a white chocolate version with Irish cream.
kittles Skittles are small round fruit chewy bite size candies that come in hard sugar shells with the letter “S” printed on them, representing the candy’s name. This “S” insignia was printed in a very dark shade of purple, almost appearing black. Starting in 1989, the “s” insignia was changed to white. Modern Skittles with the white “s” insignia are similar in outward appearance to plain chocolate M&M’s, which are also produced by Masterfoods, a division of Mars, incorporated. The inside is a white granulate and consists mainly of sugar, and a small amount of hydrogenated vegetable oil, fruit juice, citric acid and natural and artificial flavors.There are different colours and flavours. The five original colours of Skittles are Red, Green, Purple, Orange, and Yellow.
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ootsie Rolls
Tootsie Rolls are chewy chocolate-flavored candies that have been manufactured in the United States since 1896. They are one of the best-selling candies in the world. [1] The manufacturer, Tootsie Roll Industries, is based in Chicago, Illinois.
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HA-Shigekix
UHA-Shigekix is the delicious Japanese candy that gives a new meaning to the word sour, often causing people to contort their faces in sour shock horror. Giving your taste buds a yummy and rude awakening of fruity flavor, they now “function” to give your brain a wake up call as Aha! Brain Shigekix. Fortified with BCAA (Branched Chain Amino Acids), “Shigekix Aha! Brain” works to stimulate your brain cells to give you more moments of “Aha!” when you figure out the solutions to complex problems (or maybe simple ones, ‘proving’ that they actually work)
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imto
Vimto is a purple soft drink in the United Kingdom. It contains the juice of grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants (in a 3% concentration), flavoured with herbs and spices. Vimto has also been made into a sweet (candy) and an ice lolly (ice pop). It is available both as a ‘packaged good’, ie in cans and bottles via retail outlets or as a dispensed soft drink, i.e., a draught (draft) drink in pubs, clubs and restaurants. A subsidiary of Nichols plc, Cabana is the dispense arm of the company and operates via a UK wide network of distributors that are in the main independent but in Scotland and Sussex the distributor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cabana; (Scotland - Cariel and Sussex - Beacon Drinks).
underbar Starbar (Also known as Wunderbar in Canaada and Germany) was Cadbury’s first real attempt to establish a competitor for Mars’ Marathon / Snickers bar. Initially popular in the mid-1970s, the Starbar largely exists due to a small but loyal fanbase, as the product has not been advertised or promoted for years. In the mid-70s Starbar was called Nunch, and its TV advertisement featured a dark-haired woman walking alongside a white horse which was pulling a barge down a canal. Nunch was rebranded Nudge and in the 1980s it briefly became “peanut Boost,” only to return to Starbar as popularity of the Boost bar waned.
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Yorkie is a chocolate bar made by Nestlé. It was originally branded by Rowntree’s of York, hence the name. Compared to bars such as Dairy Milk, it is very chunky, and has been aimed at men. In the 1980s for example, toy Corgi Yorkie lorries were available and TV ads featured truckers. The recent ad campaign made this more explicit with the slogan It’s not for girls, which caused controversy. Nestlé also received complaints about this campaign from Norwegian and UK customers, who found it sexist and distasteful. Special versions for use in Ministry of Defence ration packs read It’s not for civvies. In 2006 a special edition that was for girls was sold, wrapped in pink. Aside from the original milk chocolate bar, several variants are available, such as “biscuit and raisin” flavour, “honeycomb” flavour, and Yorkie Ice Cream.
ero Bar The ZERO candy bar, introduced in 1920, is a candy bar composed of a combination of caramel, peanut and almond nougat covered with a layer of white fudge. Its outwardly white color, an unusual color for a candy bar, has become its trademark. ZERO was first launched by the Hollywood Brands candy company of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1920 as the Double Zero Bar and was renamed “ZERO� in 1934. Initial manufacturing of the candy bar began at its factory in Centralia, Illinois and continued through many acquisitions of the company. Hershey Foods Corporation took over Leaf North America confectionery operations in 1996, and with it came the production of the ZERO candy bar.
By Jenny Hwang