Cookies on your face?

[PlanMan]

When, why, and how did the (presumably) registered trademark HYDROX go from being a cookie to a skin cream? (The cookies are now called “Droxies”) AFAIK the products aren’t related - at least I don’t think the white stuff from the cookies is in the skin cream.

[Shiva]

From US Airways in flight magazine Attache, Feb 2000 in an article titled ‘In The Dough’ by Rebecca Gray:

The Sunshine founders, hoping to create an image of goodness and purity, truncated two simple elements, hydrogen and oxygen, to form the word Hydrox. This ill-concieved name, unfortunately, didn’t work: When Sunshine sold out to Keebler in 1996, surveys indicated that even the most loyal Hydrox patron reacted negatively to the name. Keebler has now adopted a new name: Droxies.

Two unrelated products can share the same name though. The Zyban I sell is a horticultural fungicide. The Zyban one would take to help quit smoking is Wellbutrin.

[G.B.H.Hornswoggler]

The Sunshine founders, hoping to create an image of goodness and purity, truncated two simple elements, hydrogen and oxygen, to form the word Hydrox. This ill-concieved name, unfortunately, didn’t work: When Sunshine sold out to Keebler in 1996, surveys indicated that even the most loyal Hydrox patron reacted negatively to the name. Keebler has now adopted a new name: Droxies.
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Well, they didn’t ask me).

Hydrox is a name for all that is good and noble in a sandwich cookie; the epitome of chocolate and cream.

Droxie sounds like something you’d call a whore in a 18th century novel.

Anyone who’d prefer the latter to the former is probably a “DoubleStuf” eater to begin with.

[davesink]

*Originally posted by PlanMan *
**When, why, and how did the (presumably) registered trademark HYDROX go from being a cookie to a skin cream? (The cookies are now called “Droxies”) AFAIK the products aren’t related - at least I don’t think the white stuff from the cookies is in the skin cream. **

Hey, that’s reminds me of the reason why I stopped eating Dove Bars…when I found out they were 98% cleansing cream.