{"id":2970,"date":"2003-06-22T20:34:36","date_gmt":"2003-06-22T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2003-06-22T20:34:36","modified_gmt":"2003-06-22T20:34:36","slug":"food_blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2970","title":{"rendered":"Food Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, over a year ago I posted about Heinz releasing some new types of frozen potato products called Funky Fries.  Guess what.  <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2003\/06\/17\/news\/companies\/failed_food\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">They were a flop<\/a>.  Is anyone surprised that nobody wanted to buy chocolate fries?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Kids already like the plain french fries,&#8221; said Marilyn Raymond, director with New ProductWorks, a Michigan-based product marketing consultancy. &#8220;Why try to make them more friendly to kids?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What bothered me the most were the chocolate fries,&#8221; Raymond added. &#8220;What was Heinz thinking? Chocolate in french fries is so different that consumers found no cord of familiarity with it. There aren&#8217;t even chocolate-flavored potato chips out there.&#8221;  [<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2003\/06\/17\/news\/companies\/failed_food\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">CNN Money<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, over a year ago I posted about Heinz releasing some new types of frozen potato products called Funky Fries. Guess what. They were a flop. Is anyone surprised that nobody wanted to buy chocolate fries? &#8220;Kids already like the plain french fries,&#8221; said Marilyn Raymond, director with New ProductWorks, a Michigan-based product marketing consultancy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}