Posted on 01/14/2010 1:17:08 PM PST by Daffynition
"Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
RIP. But I hate Spaghetti O’s with a passion
One quarter of the 90’s were spent with the beautiful wife in bed with severe nausea.
Spaghetti-O’s were about the only thing she could keep down.
He made a lot of children happy - that’s a nice contribution to the world...
There’s really nothing like a happy little kid in a high chair covered head to toe in Spaghetti-Os.
I LOVED Spaghetti O’s with weenies as a kid! This whole story makes me want to go out and buy a can for old times sake!
You gotta love American ingenuity.
He made more than a few parents of those kids happy too, by providing foods that kids would readily eat.
He also fed legions of college students with his ideas.
Coming soon to a government run grocery near you...”Oligarchy O’s”.
Good marketing. Made a good product and sold it well.
Several years ago, I read the obit for the lady that came up with the marketing slogan for Smuckers. I bet you know it—”With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good.” Brilliant, and she came up with a bunch of other ones, too.
“Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs” is equally great. No one ever forgets it, and Lord, that’s the stuff that marketing legends are made of.
He looks like he was a nice gentleman...and he made oodles of people happy, with his SpaghettiOs...whats not to like?
Kind of funny, when you think about it...”uh-oh” usually means, “Oh, no, here comes something bad!” Yet it worked as a slogan for the product.
I’ll pick up a can today as a fitting memorial. I usually buy a couple of cans a year, when my stomach’s in the mood for something extra easy to handle.
I didn’t care much for the canned pasta in general but I remember coming home from, I believe, a Little League game or practice exhausted. It was perhaps a Chef B. lasagne with sausage and was an incredibly correct comfort food at the time.
Agree with the sentiment of others and will buy some Spaghetti O’s for the first time in my life.
“A Campbell spokesman confirmed that Goerke died of heart failure Sunday at his home...”
Massive doses of MSG will do that.
Mom was a stay-at-home, and everything was from scratch, so we never had such delicacies but had them at friends’ houses, and we thought they were pretty cool.
One of the most genius marketing programs to come down the pike. Had to be worth jerjillions.
There’s nothing like spending a late night under a dark sky at a star party with a bowl of warm SpaghettiOs to contemplate the universe by.
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