This is the first post on this blog since November. Not that much people read this anyway. Anyways, I decided that I wanted to post on this blog more, so here I am today! Since today is Thursday, I wanted to make a post on something old. And I found Funny Face, a drink mix by Pillsbury (apparently this is what they did before the baking business) that was popular in the '60s, tried to overthrow Kool-Aid, and stirred up some controversy along with the juice. So let's have a look at this innocent but slightly racist drink.
1964: Introduction
This commercial. WARNING: Slightly offensive.
The drink was introduced in 1964, along with the commercial above. It tried to be an alternate to Soft Drinks and carbonated sodas, instead being a fruit juice. It was made to compete with Kool-Aid, which has been around since the 1930's, so it was pretty clear who was the market leader here. Anyways, the drink was unique as each flavor had a character to represent it. Also, it didn't have sugar in it, being artificially sweetened. The six original flavors were Goofy Grape, Chinese Cherry, Injun Orange, Rootin-Tootin' Raspberry, Freckle Face Strawberry and Loud Mouth Lime. Two of the flavors, however, made people angry.
1966: Controversy
In 1966, according to the New York Times, native Americans held a protest against Pillsbury due to one of the flavors being a "Native Stereotype" and they were right. Pillsbury later changed the names of two flavors, the one everyone was mad about, Injun Orange, was changed to Jolly Olly Orange.
The original packaging.
The redesigned flavor.
The other flavor that was changed was Chinese Cherry, which was changed to Choo-Choo Cherry to remove the Asian stereotype.
The old packaging.
The new name and packaging.
The packaging also included the phrase "Artificially sweetened imitation drink mix". But WHAT IS IT THEN?
1967-1972: Fall and rise
From 1964-1968 the drink mix was sweetened with cyclamates, but in 1968 the drink was pulled of shelves because cyclamates were banned by the FDA. However, in 1969 the drink re-emerged, this time sweetened with saccharine. The after taste of the saccharine didn't just improve the taste, but also the sales too. In 1970, a new flavor was introduced, Lefty Lemon-Lime.
"Add Sugar"? But what about the ad campaigns earlier?
Also in 1970, the packaging changed, now with "Add sugar" on it. WHAT? BUT YOU SAID WE DIDN'T HAVE TO ADD SUGAR! They lied to us. At least the sales increased. In 1972, vitamin C was added.
Late 70's and early 80's: Fall
Later on, larger packs were made for each flavor, where sugar was included even though it shouldn't have been. Now it was a war between the fruits and the OH YEAH!. Both trying to quench the thirst of children. After merchandise, one person stood above the other... and that person was the Kool-Aid man. The drink ran out of gas in the late 70's and was eventually sold to Brady Enterprises in 1980.
The final flavor was introduced in 1983... Chocolate. And under the name "MOO JUICE". And that was the end of Funny Face.
MOOOOOOOOO
Conclusion
Anyways, Brady Enterprises are still in business, but do not make the drink and instead other powdered food products. And it's always good to see a drink mix become a bobblehead!
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