This is a rumour(?) i heard a long time ago, somthing about the Klu Klux Klan owning more than 50% of the shares in Snapple Bev. and therefore owning the company.
Does anyone know if this is true or not?
~originalvix~
I don’t know, but I very much doubt it.
The Klan is a mere shell of it’s former self, with only a handful of members as compared to its past. Where would they come up with the capital to buy snapple?
Sounds like a UL to me!
Nope.
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/snapple.htm
Always turn to Snopes when you suspect something is an urban legend.
Oh, and welcome to the SDMB Originalvix 
Snopes puts the lie to this ridiculous rumor.
Wow guys, thanks! That was so fast!
I’m very impressed!!
Khe Klan kwnign Knapple? Khat’s kbsolutely kidiculous! Khank koodness kor Knopes kutting khe kie ko khis klanderous kumor.
Quaker Oats bought Snapple for well over $1 billion in 1993 or 1994, then sold it to Triarc (the company that owns Arby’s Roast Beef) for only $300 million in 1997. Triarc then sold Snapple last year to Cadbury Schwepps for well over $1 billion.
Quaker Oats and its Gatorade brand were bought out by PepsiCo after Quaker’s Snapple fiasco.
I didn’t see the KKK listed as the owner at all. Fancy that.
Phew. I’d just had an entire Snapple and was getting worried for a minute there.
Glad to hear that Snapple is in good hands after all.
does anyone know who owns krispy kreme donuts the deliberate use of the letter K in their name makes me think that they are backed by the KKK and are using donuts to spread their racist agenda
[homer simpson voice]mmmmmmmm…racist agenda[/homer simpson voice]
Dave316 did you skip your meds again?
Dave- there’s a hole in your theory.
Krispy Kreme owns itself. It is a publicly traded company. listed on the NYSE. They tell all here
Of course, I knew you were just being humorous.
What about the rumor that the KKK manufactured all those crown air fresheners that people put in their cars?
Snopes says nope
Other than a lot of crystal meth labs and the racist XXL flea market T-shirt business, I don’t think any klansmen are captains of industry any longer.
Especially since the noose market collapsed sometime in the '60s…
What about the Satanists? They own Proctor and Gamble, why not Snapple?
[yeah, I know they don’t. Nor does the KKK own Marlborough, nor does the LDS own Coc-Cola. Etc.]
With all respect I understand that attributing anything to THE KKK is like attributing something to THE Mafia.
There are a scattered group of groups making a scattered group of deals.