SpaghettiOs
SpaghettiOs is an American brand of canned, sweetened spaghetti featuring circular pasta shapes in a cheese and tomato sauce — and marketed to parents as 'less messy' than regular spaghetti. More than 150 million cans of SpaghettiOs are sold each year.[1]
In addition to the original variety, variations have included SpaghettiOs Meatballs (with miniature meatballs), SpaghettiOs Sliced Franks (with pieces of processed meat resembling hot dog slices), SpaghettiOs RavioliOs (with round, beef-filled ravioli), SpaghettiOs with Calcium, and other theme-shaped varieties.
Similar products are sold in the United Kingdom under names like "Spaghetti Rings", loops, hoops, etc.
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[edit] History
Introduced in 1965 by the Campbell Soup Company under the Franco-American brand, the pasta was created by Donald Goerke (1926–2010),[2] "the Daddy-O of SpaghettiOs",[3] after a year-long[3] internal study of the appropriate shape for a child-friendly pasta dish that kids could eat without making a mess.[3] Rejected shapes included cowboys, Indians, spacemen, stars, and sports shapes.[2][1] During the development of SpaghettiOs, Goerke was a marketing manager with Franco-American, then a division of Campbell. Over the period of his 35 years with Campbell,[4] Goerke created over 100 products[4] including the Chunky line of soups,[1] and in 1995, Goerke participated in the 30th anniversary of SpaghettiOs, appearing on What's My Line? and attending a celebration at a SpaghettiOs plant in Ohio.[4]
SpaghettiOs were introduced nationally without test marketing[4] — with television advertising using the tag line The neat round spaghetti you can eat with a spoon and the jingle Uh-Oh! SpaghettiOs, sung by pop singer Jimmie Rodgers (loosely based on his 1950's song Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again).
In June 2010, Campbell's recalled 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs with meatballs--all that had been produced since December 2008 and much of which had likely been consumed--due to the malfunction of a cooker at one of the company's Texas plants.[5]
[edit] Ingredients
The ingredients as listed on American packages of SpaghettiOs Original are: Water, Tomato purée (Water, Tomato Paste), Enriched Macaroni Product (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamine mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Contains Less than 2% of: Salt, Enzyme Modified Cheddar Cheese (Cheddar Cheese [Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes, Calcium Chloride], Water, Disodium Phosphate), Enzymes), Flavoring, Potassium Chloride, Vegetable Oil (Corn, Cottonseed, Canola and/or Soybean), Enzyme Modified Butter (Milk), Skim Milk, Paprika Extract, Citric Acid. One 15oz can contains 22g of sugar, 1200mg of salt, 70g of carbohydrates, 12g of protein and 340 calories.
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Donald Goerke, Creator of SpaghettiOs, Dies at 83". The New York Times, Margalit Fox, Jan 13, 2010. January 14, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/business/14goerke.html?partner=rss&emc=rss. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- ^ a b "Kids Still Slurp Those Spaghettios". The Seattle Times, Ron Judd, August 8, 1990. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900808&slug=1086842.
- ^ a b c "Donald E. Goerke dies at 83; 'the Daddy-O of SpaghettiOs'". The L.A. Times, Valerie J. Nelson, January 13, 2010. January 14, 2010. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-donald-goerke14-2010jan14,0,3621820.story. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Donald Goerke, 83, creator of Campbell's SpaghettiOs". The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sally A. Downey, January 13, 2010. http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/81300547.html.
- ^ Uh-Oh SpaghettiOs - 15 Million Pounds Recalled
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