Timberline Employee Blog

I have this one mentally filed under ,”Why didn’t I think of this years ago when we sat next to the real life Homer in restaurant in Washington who slowly echoed every item we ordered preceded by a low guttural yuuuuuum.” (He seemed like a nice guy. He must have been because he liked every thing we ordered.)

Anyhow, think reverse engineering, marketing style. See the real life Kwik-E-Marts (converted 7-11s). Here you can get most of the products you’ve only seen in 2D. And since Simpsons got their start here, we can ultimately blame the British now for bringing us Squishees and KrustyO’s.

Now I can quietly work out my plan to bring Slurm to market. Not really.

What ever happened to the Whatchamacallit?

Long before the days of Mint flavored 3 Musketeers, Whatchamacallit had the perfect candy bar formula. It had a quirky, easy to remember name and it had market share. Then in 1987 it was reformulated with caramel. It was never the same after that sad point in history and I stopped buying them altogether. Somebody must like them because they are still being sold everywhere, but sadly they are not for me.

How has your favorite commercially produced food changed over the years?