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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 04:29 PM
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Worst product name ever
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 04:32 PM
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1. I used to love those things
ate them like candy :bounce:

but that was in the 60's too
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 04:35 PM
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2. My Mom used them to
that and black coffee......

I have no idea if she ever lost weight though....



lost
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AngryOldDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 04:35 PM
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3. I did, too.
My mom had them, and I found out where her stash was. Had a pretty good flavor, as I recall.

Yeah...a rather unfortuante name for a product, despite its spelling.
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 04:35 PM
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4. I remember my mom used to take those
I've always thought that to name a food product named "Krusteaz" was sorta ill advised

http://www.krusteaz.com/
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 04:37 PM
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5. I remember
AYDS. :rolf:

And I also remember when AIDS came along, one of my first responses to hearing it was "AIDS," why are they naming an illness after a candy? :crazy:
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Rude Horner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 06:42 PM
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9. "Ayds" the diet aid came way before AIDS, the disease.
Read an interesting article on it one time. The product was quite successful until the 80's, when the AIDS scare came along. After that, the company tried altering the name a bit, but kept "ayds" in the name, changing it to something like "Diet-ayds" or something close to that. The executives of the company felt that if they completely took "ayds" out of the product name, that they'd be completely losing any benefit from a once successfull product, sighting the fact that "Kool-aid" and "Band-aid" were still successfull, so why should we have to change our name?

Ahhh, the silly information that stays in my head.
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 04:40 PM
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6. ...Well, we now know where it came from.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 05:19 PM
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7. There's also "Amelia Earhart luggage".
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Danmel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 06:36 PM
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8. My mom used AYDS too
It way before AIDS.

I always thought "Impact" was a pretty bad name for a car.

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