Posted on 01/14/2010 1:17:08 PM PST by Daffynition
The Campbell Soup Co. executive who was behind the enduring brands SpaghettiOs and Chunky Soup has died.
Donald Goerke (GUHR'-kee) was 83. A Campbell spokesman confirmed that Goerke died of heart failure Sunday at his home in Delran in southern New Jersey.
Goerke was marketing research director of Campbell's Franco-American line in the early 1960s when his group started dreaming up pasta in shapes that would appeal to kids. He chose the o's. They were marketed with the unforgettable tagline, "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs."
Later, he helped introduce Chunky Soup, a hearty ready-to-serve soup that stood out from the company's traditional line of condensed soups.
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I still get a craving for SpaghettiOs sometimes, and I’m almost 30. He made more than just kids happy with his creations.
Maybe I’ll have some for dinner as a memorial tonight.
His Japanese counterpart, Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles, died two years ago this month. Both fed lots of kids, from 1 year old through college.
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When I was really young, around 5 or so, my brother, who is 10 years older than I am, had me convinced that SpaghettiO’s were, ummmm, fish a$$holes. I wouldn’t touch them for months until my mom finally found out why and my brother had to eat them for a week as punishment.
Yes, Publius, that was/is a great slogan for Smuckers...
Now what’s the worst slogan of all time?
My nominee: U-Haul’s “Adventures in Moving.” Who wants an adventure in moving?
Sorry to hear he pasta way
ROFL! Great story!
SpagheetiO’s-imandias?
You’re welcome, and yes I was massively gullible, I believed everything he told me because he was so good at being sincere about it. When I was even younger he pulled the arrow off of my “See and Say” and re-glued it to where it pointed to the wrong animal, for example it would point at a cow and go “The dog goes BARK BARK!”. When I’d see a cow while we were driving on trips I’d point and go “Bark Bark”, and the did the same for other animals, all of them wrong. My mom thought I was severely dyslexic and took me to what was then a child psychologist, I remember my mom crying the whole time until she found out about the “See and Say”. I also remember the screams coming from the bedroom when my dad got a hold of my brother with his belt!
To this day, I feel bad about feeding my little ones that cr**. They never did anything wrong. Why did I punish them?
And your clever bro???
Haha somewhat normal believe it or not. He was the master at inflicting misery on me in very sly ways, but payback is a b!tch and when I got older I figured out ways to get even, for example for years he never noticed his Head and Shoulders shampoo always had a slight smell of uric acid to it, and for a very good reason.
We're actually very close now, I'm a musician and he's a veterinarian, and a darn good one too. We laugh about this stuff all the time now.
I was afraid to ask you, and am glad Sacajaweau did.
I love happy endings. Mom must have a lot of gray hair, but very proud of her hellions.
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