Word: jello
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will find out, no doubt, that Americans who do not patronize les grands restaurants live on substances like le cake mix, JellO, peanut butter, ketchup, Coke and orangeade without orange. Surfeited with frozen victuals and "baby food," they have lost all contact with natural flavors. From an early age they grow fat on sugars, gassy drinks, bread and superfluous vitamins. "No wonder," say GM, "that American dentists are the best in the world or that the gastroenterologists are so busy." Evidemment, you must eat only in the very best places, and your first duty on landing is to make your...
...movement get a wallet-size card listing products that are outlawed by the movement. Included are such familiar American Home items as Dristan, Anacin, Chef Boyardee, Wizard air freshener and Woolite, and General Foods' Gravy Train dog food, Kool-Aid, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods and JellO. (Asks an outraged General Foods executive: "How can anyone consider Jell-O un-American?") In Dayton, the Belmont Church of Christ sent in 200 cards and passed out more than 800 to people in the com munity. "This is a grass-roots type of thing, and it is spreading like...
...clothes," he says). He neither smokes nor drinks, drives himself to work in a 1973 Cadillac, and lists his phone number openly in the Dallas telephone directory. His taste in food is plain. Says one associate: "He is the kind of guy who will order chicken-fried steak and JellO, spill some on his tie, and then go out and buy all the silver in the world...