What were they thinking?


	What were they thinking?

librarycat513

9-10-2007 9:36 PM

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weird news, failed products

librarycat513 says:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/04/food.failures/index.html for the full article (Note - It's great for a chuckle to see what kind of strange things companies have come up with food wise)

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