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A Thursday Prompt story
© 2024 by Walter Reimer
Prompt: consistency
Back in the late Sixties and early Seventies, the American processed foods industry was hitting its stride, and with it being the age of disposable items and never mind the environmental impact, a brand called Royal decided they had hit on a winner.
And thus, Shake-a-Puddin’® was born.
Billed as a “milk-rich snack,” it had dried milk in the pudding mix, so truth in advertising, am I right? The package consisted of four cups, four lids, four spoons, and four envelopes of the powdered mixture. You added the powder to a cup, added water to a fill line, put a lid on it, and then you shook it.
And shook it.
And shook it.
Supposedly, according to the television advertisement, at the end of this endeavor you opened the lid and could dig in to enjoy your tasty, sugary, “milk-rich” snack. After consumption, you simply tossed the cup, lid, and spoon in the trash. Saved on having to help wash the dishes, yay!
Yeah.
There were a few minor problems. If you didn’t keep a firm grip on the lid, it might fly off, flinging it all over the place. You might be holding the cup too firmly, causing it to warp and not seal with the lid appropriately.
And what was in the cup when you finished shaking it . . . well, based on my recollection of it, it wasn’t what you would call pudding.
It was a loose mixture roughly like a slurry, with some undissolved granules still in it. It left a coating on your tongue, too. No wonder it was withdrawn, although briefly revived in the Seventies.
After a few messes and spooning up results that were Definitely Not Pudding, my parents stopped adding it to the shopping list and made pudding the way we liked it – add milk to the boxed mix, stir, and put it in the fridge for a few hours.
Some things you can’t improve upon.
Now get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers.
end
A Thursday Prompt story
© 2024 by Walter Reimer
Prompt: consistency
Back in the late Sixties and early Seventies, the American processed foods industry was hitting its stride, and with it being the age of disposable items and never mind the environmental impact, a brand called Royal decided they had hit on a winner.
And thus, Shake-a-Puddin’® was born.
Billed as a “milk-rich snack,” it had dried milk in the pudding mix, so truth in advertising, am I right? The package consisted of four cups, four lids, four spoons, and four envelopes of the powdered mixture. You added the powder to a cup, added water to a fill line, put a lid on it, and then you shook it.
And shook it.
And shook it.
Supposedly, according to the television advertisement, at the end of this endeavor you opened the lid and could dig in to enjoy your tasty, sugary, “milk-rich” snack. After consumption, you simply tossed the cup, lid, and spoon in the trash. Saved on having to help wash the dishes, yay!
Yeah.
There were a few minor problems. If you didn’t keep a firm grip on the lid, it might fly off, flinging it all over the place. You might be holding the cup too firmly, causing it to warp and not seal with the lid appropriately.
And what was in the cup when you finished shaking it . . . well, based on my recollection of it, it wasn’t what you would call pudding.
It was a loose mixture roughly like a slurry, with some undissolved granules still in it. It left a coating on your tongue, too. No wonder it was withdrawn, although briefly revived in the Seventies.
After a few messes and spooning up results that were Definitely Not Pudding, my parents stopped adding it to the shopping list and made pudding the way we liked it – add milk to the boxed mix, stir, and put it in the fridge for a few hours.
Some things you can’t improve upon.
Now get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers.
end
Category Story / Miscellaneous
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File Size 43.9 kB
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Shake-a-Puddin wasn't a big thing where I grew up. I remember the commercial, but I don't recall ever seeing it in the stores or my friends having it.
Remember SnackPack pudding in the metal can? And always cutting your tongue on the lid or can edge as you tried to get every bit?
Remember SnackPack pudding in the metal can? And always cutting your tongue on the lid or can edge as you tried to get every bit?
One commercial, redolent of the 1960s, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9aF54Jc7bI I don't remember this product at all, but it likely vanished before I started watching TV.
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