As a result of yesterday's blog I made today my mission to find the answer to the questions I asked.
Here is what I found.
Hellman's and Best Foods are indeed the same product and they are even made at the same plant. In 1932 the Hellman's company and the Best Foods company merged. Best Foods has always been sold west of the Rockies and Hellman's has always been sold east of the Rockies.
Dryer's ice cream plant was established in the west and as their product moved eastward they noticed a problem. The people in the east were confusing Dryer's with an already established brand of Ice Cream: Breyers. So the Dryer's company, wanting to continue business in the east, made the name Edy's for the people in the east.
Same exact ice cream, just a different name.
Otter Pops and Pop Ice come in the same exact flavors yet obviously yeild two different names.
Otter Pops began being distributed in the 70's by a company called National Pax, to rival the Jel Sert's Pop-Ice and Fla-Vor-Ice products. In 1996, Jel Sert acquired the rights to Otter Pops.
Otter Pops are distributed in the West because that is where their plant is. The plant that manufactures Pop Ice is in the East.
I didn't get a real clear answer on the one that had me really puzzled. The butter sticks. A few different customer service people had some ideas though. One said it was probably just the area they are manufactured. Well duh! Another one offered a little more help. He said that often things are manufactured than shipped to different companies for labeling, so in reality most of the brands we purchase are exactly the same and we are just paying for a name. He thought that maybe there was a plant in the west that manufactured short sticks and shipped to companies for labeling and a company in the east which produces longer sticks.
Here is what I found.
Hellman's and Best Foods are indeed the same product and they are even made at the same plant. In 1932 the Hellman's company and the Best Foods company merged. Best Foods has always been sold west of the Rockies and Hellman's has always been sold east of the Rockies.
Dryer's ice cream plant was established in the west and as their product moved eastward they noticed a problem. The people in the east were confusing Dryer's with an already established brand of Ice Cream: Breyers. So the Dryer's company, wanting to continue business in the east, made the name Edy's for the people in the east.
Same exact ice cream, just a different name.
Otter Pops and Pop Ice come in the same exact flavors yet obviously yeild two different names.
Otter Pops began being distributed in the 70's by a company called National Pax, to rival the Jel Sert's Pop-Ice and Fla-Vor-Ice products. In 1996, Jel Sert acquired the rights to Otter Pops.
Otter Pops are distributed in the West because that is where their plant is. The plant that manufactures Pop Ice is in the East.
I didn't get a real clear answer on the one that had me really puzzled. The butter sticks. A few different customer service people had some ideas though. One said it was probably just the area they are manufactured. Well duh! Another one offered a little more help. He said that often things are manufactured than shipped to different companies for labeling, so in reality most of the brands we purchase are exactly the same and we are just paying for a name. He thought that maybe there was a plant in the west that manufactured short sticks and shipped to companies for labeling and a company in the east which produces longer sticks.
4 comments:
I'm so glad you found the answers to those questions!! Except, I'd like a better answer on the butter one, because that has always been puzzeling to me...
Very interesting! But in the West, there is still a Breyers AND Dryer's. So I guess those Eastern people get a little lost easily. ;) Just sayin's all.
Perhaps Breyers started on the east and went west and dryers started on the west and went east and they met in the middle and found their problem
COOL
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