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- <text id=89TT0542>
- <title>
- Feb. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Snacks
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 27, 1989 The Ayatullah Orders A Hit
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 56
- Business Notes
- SNACKS
- Pass the Pork Rinds, Mr. Prez
- </hdr><body>
- <p> What Ronald Reagan did for jellybeans during his tenure in
- the White House, George Bush may do for pork rinds. A
- presidential predilection for the crunchy puffs of pigskin is
- bringing fresh popularity to what was previously regarded as a
- regional delicacy of the South. The snack is made by cooking
- small pieces of pigskin and dunking the shrunken pellets in fat
- heated to 400 degrees F. At that point they explode like
- popcorn.
- </p>
- <p> Chicago's Evans Food Products, which claims to be the
- largest U.S. pork-rind producer, predicts that annual sales in
- the $200 million-a-year industry will rise 10% during 1989.
- Evans hopes to profit from the pork rind's upper-crust patron
- with a new brand called Presidential Pork Rinds, which features a
- red-white-and-blue label. The company is planning promotional
- stickers that will proclaim SKINS ARE IN!
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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