The Wife® apparently doesn’t drink Snapple anymore because I haven’t seen any Snapple Cap posts in a while. That, compounded with my Trivial Pursuit calendar from yesterday, let me to investigate some Snapple Trivia.
The Unadulterated Food Corporation was founded in 1927 in New York by 3 Jews. Snapple is kosher; there is a small “K” on the label because of this.
One of its first products was a carbonated apple juice, which was described as having a “snappy apple taste.” Snappy apple lead to the name “Snapple,” which replaced their even worse name in the early 80’s.
The brand became popular in the early 90’s because of “the Snapple Lady” commercials. Her name is Wendy Kaufman. The story goes that when she was young, she sent a letter to Greg Brady that went unanswered, which inspired the commercials.
Wilford Brimley’s favorite company, Quaker Oats, bought Snapple in 1994 for $1.7 billion (at which time, Wendy was fired for some reason), but then sold it to Triarc in 1997 for $300 million (ouch!). Triarc sold it to Cadbury Schweppes for $1.45 billion in 2000, and was spun off into the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group in 2008.
In 2003, Snapple paid off the city of New York to put Snapple machines in all New York schools and public buildings. Snapple is the official drink of New York City.
According to wiki – which is always true – about 28 of the Snapple cap facts are wrong. At least 3 of them were debunked by Mythbusters, and 1 by Snopes (see next post). Reading some of them, though, I wouldn’t call the caps “wrong” per se.
I personally find Snapple overpriced and pretentious… That’s about it.
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Snapple is overpriced and pretentious, but not as bad as Nantucket Nectars.
Or those Naked Juices. Like the one that Z had that once that looked like grass clippings.
Ooh, or Odwalla. That's pretentions too! And, if I remember, not even good for you.
More than once. Every time we went to Byerly's he had that grass juice.
In what way is Odwalla "not even good for you"?
I seem to remember it having shockingly low values of vitamins and minerals and disturbingly high values for calories and sugar. Maybe not "bad" but also not as good for you as their marketers want you to think!
Oh hey, my comment went through! (I was getting an error earlier when trying to post)
I won't get into a long rant on this one, but I have three quick points: (1) they are not empty calories, so a "disturbingly high value" is not necessarily a bad thing; (2)the sugar is fructose, as opposed to the isoglucose found in, say, Mountain Dew; (3) most of the vitamins and minerals found in fruits and vegetables are in the meat/pulp, not in the juice.
I agree with you on the marketing aspect; people will buy what they are told to buy.
I understand your points. Maybe it's just a reminder that looks can be deceiving.
Cheese and rice! Do you really need to have the last word that badly? You didn't even add anything substantial to the discussion, just reiterated a previous point that we both made. You would have been better off going with "So's your face!"
Also: so's your face!
/hippocrital rant
hypocritical…
I hate IEs lack of a spell check.
I personally liked the Hippo…
Jeff knows about a program that you can highlight your spelling and right click and check it. Ispell maybe? I have it at home, pretty cool to have on the blag-o-sphere.
I don't work inside a grocery store anymore and thus drink MUCH less Snapple. Sorry to destroy you by not posting my random snapple facts…
Yeah, I am going to have to place blame on the D&D article I read this morning about Hippopotamus Trainers. It confused me; and doubly so because I can no longer read the word ‘hippopotamus’ with out hearing Rob Schneider saying Hip-Hop Anonymous in my head.
A spelling addon would be nice; but I already played my get out of jail free card when I used my admin privileges to install Google Desktop and iTunes on my workstation.
I once again get the last word… So's your face!!!