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I do like scrapple, though I don’t think anyone I know now actually eats it, so I just don’t have the courage to bring it in the house. It’s one of those things that if you overthink, you lose the appetite. I do remember as a child being served it in right fashionable suburban houses [...]

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It is time for food for the New Year. One such staple of the holidays in the South are chitterlings, or chitlins. Growing up, of the animal parts, I would eat souse and scrapple, though never chitterlings. Souse is, of course, a head cheese made of the brains of a pig. It is eaten as [...]

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We happened upon this Entenmann’s display at our Publix store at The Landings in Sarasota. It was not like Entenmann’s at all, but instead directly resembled the Hostess display assortments of the 1970s, namely cupcakes and fruit pies. Hostess, no longer aggressive about its advertising and shelf space, and has left a major hole for [...]

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Kukla, Fran & Ollie, a show that debuted January 12, 1949 on NBC, is now on DVD thanks to Martin Tahse Productions. The ad-libbed show initially ran five nights a week at 7 p.m., and was just as much for adults and kids. Of the initial run, there were 720 shows produced in black and [...]

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So what does a GM dealer that used to have a Saturn or Saab franchise do now that these brands are gone? Some are going solo, as used car and repair dealerships. Many Chrysler dealers are affiliating with NAPA, or going it alone as used car dealers, too. My solution would be to offer any [...]

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We were thinking of great brands related to lighters. Of course there is Zippo, which has done an aggressive and smart job of keeping an anachronistic brand alive at a time when folks don’t smoke as much as they used to. One other brand is Ronson, the flint and lighter fluid company, which we read [...]

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ATLANTA – We caught with licensing expert Pete Canalichio to answer a few email questions about the current licensing climate. BrandlandUSA: What opportunities are companies missing in the licensing of brands? Canalichio: The biggest opportunity in my opinion is that there are so many companies out there with great products or services that don’t even [...]

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There is a good chance that today’s brands won’t be tomorrow’s brands. This came up because at a recent family dinner, folks came up with a list of brands that are mostly forgotten, but were well-known in their time. Here is the list. Some are still around. Maltex was a cereal brand founded in 1899. [...]

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GLENVIEW, Ill. – A TV advertising favorite is going back to advertising, at least in one region in the U.S. To help remind consumers that Shake ‘N Bake is still around, this December Shake ‘N Bake is marketing to local consumers with ads in 17 Boston-area shopping malls. The ads are sort of cheeky, with [...]

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A few weeks ago, we got a Hostess fruit pie. Blueberry, I think. It was good. Thanks to YouTube, someone posted the commercial just so I could remember whether the commercials were as good as the food.

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