Word: keebler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every cook knows, tinkering with a favorite recipe can bring grunts of disapproval from family and friends. For a food company, such tampering invites an even greater disaster: plummeting sales. Today, though, food manufacturers are busily reformulating some of their most popular products. Early this month, Keebler became the fourth major company since last fall -- joining Pepperidge Farm, Kellogg and Sunshine Biscuits -- to announce a switch in ingredients. The change: replacing highly saturated tropical oils with less saturated fats...
...move, which affects such items as Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal, Keebler's Soft Batch cookies, Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish crackers and Sunshine's Hydrox cookies, is prompted by health considerations -- and rising consumer pressure. Manufacturers have long been partial to the balmy-sounding vegetable oils -- coconut, palm-kernel and palm -- mainly because they impart a nongreasy taste and texture and extend the shelf life of products. But they are also high in saturated fat, the prime booster of blood-cholesterol levels. Coconut oil contains 92% saturated fat, palm-kernel oil 86% and palm oil 51%. In comparison...
...There was nobody else involved, but [the incident] is under investigation," said Diane, Keebler, public affairs officer for the New York police...
Police refused to confirm the identity of the man although Neumann's identification cards were the only ones on the body, Keebler said...
...Duncan Hines label. The inaugural flavors are five varieties of chocolate chip-either plain or combined with butterscotch, almonds, mint or peanut butter-fudge. P & G has previously sold Duncan Hines cookie mix, but this is the company's first challenge to Nabisco and Keebler, the leaders in the $2.5 billion-per-year ready-to-munch-cookie industry. In its sales pitches, P & G asserts that it has developed technology to mass produce a cookie that is crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside and tastes more homemade than the bestselling brands...