"Hi. I'd like to buy a Small peach _Unadulturated Food Product."_ "I'm sorry but we're all out of small peaches..." And if we did have them, I assure you *they would be quite adulteress*
I really disapprove of the plastic bottle switch. A big part of why I bought them was the glass bottle, it was a very tactile aspect of the brand. Luckily you can still (sometimes) by the cases with glass bottles.
There's another podcast, partially written by the company man and Robert Smith from NPR's Planet money and some random dude talking about how switching to plastic was the more environmentally friendly option. And why they did that
That can come down to a matter of preference, I actually think it's a major advantage to give them a chance over other similar products, I often stick a bottle of some type of soda or Brisk (Which was briefly hinted at with mention of Lipton entering the premade iced tea market) in the little side compartment things in my backpack, and I tend to avoid glass bottles because sometimes the bottles can fall out and I'd rather have a plastic bottle that I can rely on not to shatter in the event it falls.
When I was younger (teens) my buddies and I drank a lot of Snapple. We kept our caps and when we got together you had to have a Snapple cap on you, otherwise somebody could "snapple check" you by pulling their cap out and popping it. If you didnt have a cap on you when they called you, you owed them a snapple, if you did theyd owe you a snapple. Was a fun game. I still have my original snapple cap from those days. "Real Fact" #732: The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Most products actually taste better when they come in glass bottles. The same thing happened with coca cola, the glass bottles give the drink a much better flavor. Plus they look nice
Someone should do a comparison. Try blindfolded “glass snapple” and “plastic snapple” and see if it really does effect the flavor or if it is a mind game of quality
@@madide3978 Plastic bottles also have an acetaldehyde lining, which can transfer into the flavor of the drink giving it a slight “plastic-y” taste. While this taste is hard to avoid.
@@verycherryberry3752 yup, but you know, it's the consumers fault for the trash, even though they forced the whole country to change in the 80's from glass recyclable bottles to plastic, since it's easier and cheaper, yet they keep the price the same, oh look a prime example: Snapple. there's only so much the average person can do to keep trash off the planet, or burning coal from power plants powering electric cars. as far as im concerned, we've done our part, now we're just waiting for those greedy big companies to also do the same.
VeryCherryBerry Actually, plastic bottles are more environmental friendly. In the US they don’t recycle glass anymore, because it cost more to recycle than to make one from scratch, therefore most of the glass are shredded and used as landfill cover. Plastic in the other hand, can be recycled much easy and actually turns a profit, plus many state introduced plastic bottle taxes so that people would be more likely to recycle it.
According to Wikipedia there were never made by Quakers: "The company has never had any ties with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). When the company was being built up, Quaker businessmen were known for their honesty (truth is often considered a Quaker testimony). The Straight Dope writes "According to the good folks at Quaker Oats, the Quaker Man was America's first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal, his registration taking place on September 4th, 1877."
What I really miss about Snapple is how many different flavors you could get. Nowadays, you’re lucky to see anything other than kiwi strawberry, mango madness, and the teas.
My mergers and acquisitions professor showed a video of yours in class the other day as an intro. I instantly knew i wanted more. I've binge watched about 12 hours of your content, and as an OG youtuber whose perspective has been marred by the toils and trials of law school, i must say that your quality and succinctness make you extremely underrated! From what i've seen, you perform great research on companies that often try to hide behind public relations campaigns that attempt and uphold an ideal image. Great shit, keep it up!
Hey this gives an idea! What about Keurig? It would be interesting to see how the coffee pods blew up over time. Great video as usual, thanks for uploading!
Keurig would do even better if they lowered their prices. I'm not getting one because it's too much money per cup to buy them. I have a four-cup coffee maker that I use and make three cups
Here's my Snapple story: Back in the 90s in my teens, my aunt took my brother and I to the ice rink. After a really hard fall on my wrist, I decided it was time to quit and got a hot chocolate, which was painfully too hot. What did I do? I bought a Snapple Lemonade from the vending machine. I'm not much of a tea drinker, but it soothed my tongue and tasted pretty good.
As someone who grew up in the New York metro area and remembers the rise of Snapple, I can tell you that under their original ownership Snapple was a very 'New York' product. The Snapple Lady worked because embodied the New York culture of the company. The reason she was dropped after the company's sale is that Quaker wasn't sure about her appeal in the rest of the country.
I loved grape Snapple going up. Noting in particular that it was a treat because you had to go out of your way to find it was very interesting for how Quaker Oats blew it. Unfortunately, as an aging, responsibility-laden adult, I realize that like most beverages Snapple is just sugar water.
I didn't realize they still made Snapple until a few weeks ago when I saw a few cases at the supermarket. I thought it died along with the 90s lol. Great video as always!
Shock jock Howard Stern also promoted Snapple on his show and that helped a lot in its sales as well as The Snapple Lady giving it a real New York feel to it. I did enjoy it.
@@josephlacerra8433 old stock? my corporate gas stations in my city ran out of glass bottles about a month ago but the Indian gas stations still seem to have them.
Insert Name Here thanks for the recommendation. I just watched it, and wow there was so much disturbing stuff in it from the ads to the tragic story at the end. Makes perfect sense why they shut down now.
Oh man, I'm gonna have to check that video out now. I was the same with Quiznos, there was something Subway used in their store that always made me queasy so I've never been able to eat food from there.
This one is my favorite so far this year. I remember those commercials, and drank my share of Snapple graduating from high school in the early 90's. Business history is fascinating to a nerd like me, and your stories can be enjoyed by everyone. Keep up the great work!
I love Snapple. I started buying only Snapple tea when I realized it's nearly the last bastion for SUGAR in tea. Arizona is good, but it has, HFCS. I avoid HFCS, so my options are supremely limited. Snapple in my opinion, is one of the healthiest teas on the planet.
Snapple was a big part of my High School era, where you felt mildly fancy hauling around those big glass bottles. It was the first really big break from soda that pretended it was healthy or artisan.
I still need to go find some Diet (Red) Snapple Apple! The regular kind is the absolute best and the way they captured a red apple flavor - as opposed to going the more obvious route of making an apple juice flavor - is amazing!
Great video. Snapple is still the go for iced tea on the go for me. I remember the "Snapple Lady" and she's adorable. What Quaker did is a prime example of not understanding the symbiosis of the brand and its consumers. There's no need to reinvent the wheel sometimes.
I fucking love snapple man. I was in the dominican rep. when I was like 8 and was complaining that I wanted juice but all that was available was soda, water, and snapple lemon tea. after the first sip I begged for a bottle every single day for months. Later on in highschool, a girl in my class would always walk in with a bottle of snapple peach iced tea. It smelled so good and I thought she looked cool with it lmao so I again developed an obsession for it and it hasn't gone away. I had a gallon of snapple peach in my fridge, 4 bottles of their green tea, and I recently bought four six pack cases (they were on sale, buy 2 get 2 😜). I think arizona is great too and I'll usually pick up a can or jug in place of it along with snapple but snapple is my favorite 😌
I used to LOVE Snapple growing up in the 90s and I most definitely remember the commercials with the Snapple lady! Kiwi strawberry was pretty much all I drank, Haven't had it in forever though and I am bummed to hear they switched to plastic.... The glass bottles were part of their appeal!
You completely missed why it was growing so fast in the early '90s, The Rush Limbaugh radio program was just getting off the ground in NYC and early on Rush made Snapple the official beverage of his radio program and would drink it on air. Snapple was still a regional brand but because of Rush Limbaugh large cost to cost audience people were ready to buy as soon as it came to their town.
Do a Comcast video. I just thought they were a cable network but now they keep making 65 billion dollars bids for companies. I would like to see a video about them. Also great video. I loved it
The idea of an entire company based around a video game is extremely fascinating. It should be noted that said company is not Nintendo per se, but a trio of companies in which Nintendo is a partner.
The advertising campaign in the 1990s, including the Snapple Lady, made the brand seen like a small company that sold great products. I loved the brand because I felt like I was drinking something healthier than a soda and supporting an underdog. And then (presumably around the time of the Quaker Oats acquisition that I was unaware of until today), the brand changed. It became just another mass market beverage, the marketing stopped, and honestly I forgot about them. Today I was at Safeway looking for a non soda beverage in a non glass package for travel and was delighted to discover their glass packaging. Interesting "real fact" - one of their bottle caps said Caller ID was illegal in California and I wrote them to tell them I had Caller ID on my California home phone line. They wrote back, said they had gotten it from a book and hadn't fact checked it, and they would take that one out of circulation. It added to the feel of a simple, family run or small business brand with a great product.
You should do a video on the Detroit Three automakers (GM, Chrysler and Ford) and how they were dethroned by China during the 2009 recession. I think it would be an interesting topic to talk about. Also, i would love to see a video on Kraft Foods. Inc's splitting in 2012, and how it formed Mondelez International and Kraft Foods (owned by Kraft Heinz).
I still see it in grocery stores but I don't see many flavors. It was nice when it first came out and there were so many flavors. I remember Rush Limbaugh used to endorse it, they bought advertising with him, he would pop open a bottle on air and talk about how much he liked it, then apparently Snapple became "PC" and stopped advertising on his show, maybe it was after Quaker bought them, and I heard it really hurt their sales without that advertising. I don't know if you remember a product New York Seltzer, a carbonated flavored water, it came in tons of flavors. I remember them coming to campus in the late 80s promoting it. Never found out what happened with them. We'd love to see you do one on Books-A-Million and what happened with them, same with Borders Books and Music, and 9-Lives. 9-Lives used to be the only cat in town (pardon the pun) but now it's relegated to the cheap bottom shelf in stores with few varieties.
So here in the Midwest and plains states (mostly, I think there were a few in CA) we've recently learned that Shopko - a big box store like Target or Kmart - is closing for good. It was a slow close and started with the news that their pharmacies were closing because the company is so far behind in paying their drug suppliers after years of trying to build themselves up as a major part of that convenience health market. It sounds like that was the one breeze that toppled the whole house of cards, and I'm finding the story fascinating. I actually live maybe two miles from the very first store in Green Bay, WI and maybe five miles from the corporate buildings in Ashwaubenon, WI, so we're being hit pretty hard here due to the closures. Last year's scramble for all of the local pharmacies to pick up Shopko's suddenly care-less customers alone was pretty spectacular to see. It may be worth a look for you.
I enjoy most of the Snapple drinks every now and again. Not something I ever really seek out, but I'd certainly miss them if they went away. Sometimes the Mango tea, the half tea, half lemonade, and the lemon tea really hits the spot.
Hey, I remember going to a pizza party place a few years back on it’s last day open. It was called Malibu Grand Prix, and not only was it closing, but it was the last one in San Antonio. It seems like Malibu was a pretty big chain up until something occurred. I was hoping that maybe you’d explain it’s decline. I think it’d be really interesting.
You may have overlooked the most important reason Snapple sales crashed after the Quaker Oats purchase. Snapple's first and most successful national advertising campaign was on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. For three hours every day Limbaugh urged his millions of listeners to buy Snapple which they did in droves. When Quaker Oats purchased the company, they immediately cancelled the Limbaugh contract citing the conservative theme of the radio program and specifically Limbaugh's stance on LGBTQ issues. Limbaugh wasted no time telling his fans that the new owners of Snapple despised him AND them, the listeners. Immediately practically every Limbaugh fan stopped buying Snapple in protest. Sales crashed nationwide. Limbaugh continued to bang the drum against Quaker Oats/Snapple for months, just to remind the fans of what happened. As you noted, Quaker Oats never recovered from this gaffe and eventually had to sell the failing brand.
I've been watching this channel for a few weeks now on and off and I only just noticed that I wasn't subbed. Lol Subbed now. Keep up the good stuff, I keep using some of your stuff to break the ice with new people lol.
Make some homemade iced tea and drink some everyday for a month, then try Snapple. You'll never drink Snapple again. Snapple is bland and watered down.
Lemon Tea Snapple is the smoothest thing on my throat, stops me from coughing, too bad it's so rare to find that flavor now, you know, their main brand flavor...
@@frank234561 i do have a lemon tree in my backyard and I do make lemon sweat tea and I agree with you that it does taste much better. Thier peach tea cant be beat though.
Okay, so check this out: I'm a huge Mystery Science Theater 3000 mark and I taped a lot of episodes off of TV when I was a kid. In the summer of 1995, when I taped most of my stuff, the commercals on Comedy Central had a lot of Snapple representation. Specifically the "Snapple Lady" would pop up a lot in my fast forwarding in the 90s. In the 2000s and later I've watched these tapes as time capsules with friends (Atlanta 1996 Olympics and Windows '95 ads are also all over the place) we've talked about how good these spots were. They put a Snapple vending machine in someone's office! I dig how you kept reading off those bottlecap facts without explaining why you kept doing that. Unless you did and I missed it. Ah shit, I missed it...
i like snapple (the name is great, btw) but their prices are a bit high for me. i only buy cases when they're on sale. i love the lemonade/iced tea ones. raspberry is good too!
"Man, I''m really thirsty.."
"Have you tried Unadulterated Food products? It comes in apple, peach, and raspberry!"
yes
that sounds like "man you only drink beer"
myspace and yahoo for the love of jebus company man
"Hi. I'd like to buy a Small peach _Unadulturated Food Product."_
"I'm sorry but we're all out of small peaches..."
And if we did have them, I assure you *they would be quite adulteress*
Sounds like Brazzers has entered the food markets
I really disapprove of the plastic bottle switch. A big part of why I bought them was the glass bottle, it was a very tactile aspect of the brand. Luckily you can still (sometimes) by the cases with glass bottles.
There's another podcast, partially written by the company man and Robert Smith from NPR's Planet money and some random dude talking about how switching to plastic was the more environmentally friendly option. And why they did that
datjuceandcobrakidz Company Man is on a podcast? What’s it called?
@@CapnCody1622 th-cam.com/video/NfjMaiPhlag/w-d-xo.html
@@CapnCody1622 he just helped write it, as a guest
That can come down to a matter of preference, I actually think it's a major advantage to give them a chance over other similar products, I often stick a bottle of some type of soda or Brisk (Which was briefly hinted at with mention of Lipton entering the premade iced tea market) in the little side compartment things in my backpack, and I tend to avoid glass bottles because sometimes the bottles can fall out and I'd rather have a plastic bottle that I can rely on not to shatter in the event it falls.
When I was younger (teens) my buddies and I drank a lot of Snapple. We kept our caps and when we got together you had to have a Snapple cap on you, otherwise somebody could "snapple check" you by pulling their cap out and popping it. If you didnt have a cap on you when they called you, you owed them a snapple, if you did theyd owe you a snapple. Was a fun game. I still have my original snapple cap from those days.
"Real Fact" #732: The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Nice fact
Patrick Sweater that’s because birds are descendants of dinosaurs
You should sell that story to Snapple. That feels like something that would make for a great commercial.
@@Lostmymind1 lol wouldn't that be something!
Haha back in the day we actually tried using them as morse code.
Somehow Snapple tastes better with the glass bottle
Most products actually taste better when they come in glass bottles. The same thing happened with coca cola, the glass bottles give the drink a much better flavor. Plus they look nice
@@davidkonevky7372 I don't know but, even Coke that comes in a plastic bottle when poured in a glass cup tastes better.
Agreed
Someone should do a comparison. Try blindfolded “glass snapple” and “plastic snapple” and see if it really does effect the flavor or if it is a mind game of quality
@@madide3978 Plastic bottles also have an acetaldehyde lining, which can transfer into the flavor of the drink giving it a slight “plastic-y” taste. While this taste is hard to avoid.
Real fact #500: Company man is a good TH-cam channel.
real fact #501: pewdiepie is better.
@@speedways7190 Don't bring Pewdiepie into this, it goes without saying...
@@corniedog8702 how are those headlines looking today?
@@speedways7190 PewdiePie and Company Man are two different gods of their craft.
@@speedways7190 I think you mean worst.
The rise and fall of... MYSPACE!!
And how about GeoCities?
This!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Rise and Fall...And Rise Again
The fall and fall, of xanga
I feel like Snapchat is going to be joining this list soon! That makeover about a year(?) ago killed Snapchat. lol
Snapple was part of the whole 90s era for me. Goes along with CDs and crystal Pepsi and all those other weird 90s things.
I feel frutopia or surge do it for me. Snapple still exists so it doesn’t really remind me of be 90s all that much.
AOL CDs in the mail.. that sorta thing
@THE ONE they still had a ton of sugar and we're like a buck-fifty
CDs hit the mass market in the early 80s
@@frankschneider6156 AOL was a 90s thing dingus
Fact: There was a time where the only taste sold here in PR was Kiwi Strawbery. Today is the best seller for Snapple in the island.
Eril Burgos Kiwi Strawberry was my favorite.
Damn, I always buy that flavor, never imagine that was only sold here during a time, and considered the best seller. The more you know.
Did you mean to write "Today it still is the best seller"? Or is a different flavor the best seller"
Asi es mi hermano
Puerto Rico!!! (I was dumb it took me a minute)
I can't stand the plastic bottles. It affects the taste.
Mike Case it's also bad for the environment
@@verycherryberry3752 yup, but you know, it's the consumers fault for the trash, even though they forced the whole country to change in the 80's from glass recyclable bottles to plastic, since it's easier and cheaper, yet they keep the price the same, oh look a prime example: Snapple.
there's only so much the average person can do to keep trash off the planet, or burning coal from power plants powering electric cars.
as far as im concerned, we've done our part, now we're just waiting for those greedy big companies to also do the same.
VeryCherryBerry Actually, plastic bottles are more environmental friendly. In the US they don’t recycle glass anymore, because it cost more to recycle than to make one from scratch, therefore most of the glass are shredded and used as landfill cover. Plastic in the other hand, can be recycled much easy and actually turns a profit, plus many state introduced plastic bottle taxes so that people would be more likely to recycle it.
@@FedericoLiuYang that's interesting
Pour it into a glass and to a taste test.
You should do a video on Quaker oats. Were the oats ever made by Quakers?
According to Wikipedia there were never made by Quakers:
"The company has never had any ties with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). When the company was being built up, Quaker businessmen were known for their honesty (truth is often considered a Quaker testimony). The Straight Dope writes "According to the good folks at Quaker Oats, the Quaker Man was America's first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal, his registration taking place on September 4th, 1877."
No, no, no. The oats were never made by Quakers, they are made out of Quakers (prototype name was soylent white).
Dying! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
PepsiCo, Inc. owns Quaker oats now.
@@Ron-fl3oq Definitely people.
I sure can go for some Unadulterated Food Products 😄👌
Mmmmm, unadulterated food products. 😋
I read that as Ned Flanders and Hank Hill
How was it taste? The unadulterated food?
@@rodigoduterte9192 like verginty 🤠
Hey in this organic age that just might work.
I think a large part of Snapple's initial rise was that Subway restaurants started selling Snapple right as they were massively expanding themselves.
I like the random facts on the caps
Avery Lopez-Baines I like to play your Kim possibly game lol
@@alisathestrongone2087 omh
I honestly did not know Snapple lady even existed. Lol 🤣
Me neither
You're a terrible person.
Doesn't surprise me since it was 25 years ago.
I had forgotten her until he mentioned her.
@@kelly3014 same
Usually when I got Snapple I went for the juice drinks more than the iced teas...I almost forgot that tea was their focus 😅
I stopped drinking snapple when they went to plastic bottles.
th-cam.com/video/NfjMaiPhlag/w-d-xo.html this was ridden with a part of the company man
Yeah but Obama is still putting chemicals in your water supply so what good did that do you in the end
Dude Obama has been out of office for how long? I didn't come here for conspiracy theories I came here for snapple.
I think I saw some glass bottles in target
I stopped drinking Snapple when they raised their prices. I mean, 16 oz bottle cost $3? And Arizona cans are still $1 and still 23 oz.
I remember any time we went for a long road trip we loaded up a cooler full of Snapple for the drive. My favorite was the kiwi-strawberry.
I tried that flavor I think........I FRICKIN Loved it....
My favorite flavor is peach tea 😍
Peach always
What I really miss about Snapple is how many different flavors you could get. Nowadays, you’re lucky to see anything other than kiwi strawberry, mango madness, and the teas.
My mergers and acquisitions professor showed a video of yours in class the other day as an intro. I instantly knew i wanted more. I've binge watched about 12 hours of your content, and as an OG youtuber whose perspective has been marred by the toils and trials of law school, i must say that your quality and succinctness make you extremely underrated! From what i've seen, you perform great research on companies that often try to hide behind public relations campaigns that attempt and uphold an ideal image. Great shit, keep it up!
Hey this gives an idea! What about Keurig? It would be interesting to see how the coffee pods blew up over time. Great video as usual, thanks for uploading!
Second this. Especially when compared to other brands hopping in the capsule coffee market like Nespresso, Tassimo. and others.
I third this. Keurig would be a good one
Keurig would do even better if they lowered their prices. I'm not getting one because it's too much money per cup to buy them. I have a four-cup coffee maker that I use and make three cups
as well as how the k-cup design won over the pod system that the Philips Senseo had going. Similar to HD-DVD vs Blu-RAY
3 years later and you wish has been granted!! Company Man finally did a Keurig video this week!
I think it's clear: the switch from glass bottles to plastic bottles hurt Snapple the most.
And even here and now I don't see them 8n shelves anymore just big gallons instead of different bottles with different flavors. RIP.
Company Man always sounds so sympathetic when something goes wrong for a company. It's very sweet. :)
Ah, the Snapple lady! I loved those ads.
The "snapple lady" was the real heart and public face of the company. Without her it was just some dumb ice tea amongst a sea of drink options.
Lies again? Group Of Companies
Dude its like the only thing you talk about on this channel are companies.
This bitch loud in every movie lmao I hope your being sarcastic but I’m sure you are 😂
and businesses
NFL Updatez probably high or smth
I know right? And I'm pretty sure the only gender he identifies with is "Man"
@@B3Band Did you just assume his gender?
Here's my Snapple story: Back in the 90s in my teens, my aunt took my brother and I to the ice rink. After a really hard fall on my wrist, I decided it was time to quit and got a hot chocolate, which was painfully too hot. What did I do? I bought a Snapple Lemonade from the vending machine. I'm not much of a tea drinker, but it soothed my tongue and tasted pretty good.
*A lot companies sure like to*
*_RISE AND FALL AND RISE AGAIN_*
where's
rise and fall and rise again...and fall again...and then rise again.
@@Omar-em7rl Lmao bro
@@Omar-em7rl *damb*
They live they die then live agayne
@@Omar-em7rl dam
Meanwhile I’m having a Snapple right now. Go figure.
I wonder how often companies blame “Millennials and Gen Z” for their successes and failures.
I blame millennials for all my success!!
Who won't
It’s ridiculous since so many millennials (including myself) consumed obscene amounts of Snapple in the 90s.
@@herpderpy9445 yep
"I blame stupid millenials for not buying my microtransactions."
I can't believe I never knew "strike while the iron is hot" was a reference to blacksmithing.
Because it's not. The saying originated in the torturing industry, especially the Spanish inquisition.
And wrong..... the oldest known published refers of the phrase is about blacksmithing (1466),
No it has to do with ironing shirts.
Chris lmao😂
@Gregory McDonald
How the hell is that racist?
Fun fact- I have an addiction to Snapple!!
I have over 50 cans and over 30 glass jars
Snapple needs to bring back "The Element Line"! This was the shit at school and we deeply missed it...along with Doritos 3D.
RAIN was the BEST
@@Magnum062 This and Fire every 2 days at noon at high school. It was life!
Yeah Doritos 3D is back 1/2
@@thelolfaceguy Yeah I've tried it...I don't remember it tasting like Bugles. Worst return ever.
As someone who grew up in the New York metro area and remembers the rise of Snapple, I can tell you that under their original ownership Snapple was a very 'New York' product. The Snapple Lady worked because embodied the New York culture of the company. The reason she was dropped after the company's sale is that Quaker wasn't sure about her appeal in the rest of the country.
Pfft...she's so cute.
I loved grape Snapple going up. Noting in particular that it was a treat because you had to go out of your way to find it was very interesting for how Quaker Oats blew it.
Unfortunately, as an aging, responsibility-laden adult, I realize that like most beverages Snapple is just sugar water.
I didn't realize they still made Snapple until a few weeks ago when I saw a few cases at the supermarket. I thought it died along with the 90s lol. Great video as always!
Another video i wait every week for one and never regret it
I like the little fun facts thrown in there, short and sweet. Good job.
In this society where people are moving away from sugary drinks, lead to Snapple's decline. One bottle of Snapple has 54 grams of sugar that's crazy .
Shock jock Howard Stern also promoted Snapple on his show and that helped a lot in its sales as well as The Snapple Lady giving it a real New York feel to it. I did enjoy it.
Snapple got facts for that cap!
I don't know what it is, man, but something about your outro music and voice make me feel nostalgic. Thanks for your style.
I like Snapple but It could be cheaper. Also miss glass bottles.
They still sell the glass bottles, but only for 6 packs.
hotu so that’s how they are going to make us buy those 6 packs. 😂
@@imNotGivingMyNameToAComputer never noticed that, +1 to you.
I often see the glass bottles individually.
@@josephlacerra8433 old stock? my corporate gas stations in my city ran out of glass bottles about a month ago but the Indian gas stations still seem to have them.
I had the pleasure of being in a Snapple commercial all from writing a letter just before they went public.
Can you do an episode on quizno’s? I thought it was pretty good when I was younger, but they all kinda disappeared 🥪
Insert Name Here thanks for the recommendation. I just watched it, and wow there was so much disturbing stuff in it from the ads to the tragic story at the end. Makes perfect sense why they shut down now.
Oh man, I'm gonna have to check that video out now. I was the same with Quiznos, there was something Subway used in their store that always made me queasy so I've never been able to eat food from there.
This one is my favorite so far this year. I remember those commercials, and drank my share of Snapple graduating from high school in the early 90's. Business history is fascinating to a nerd like me, and your stories can be enjoyed by everyone. Keep up the great work!
I love Snapple. I started buying only Snapple tea when I realized it's nearly the last bastion for SUGAR in tea. Arizona is good, but it has, HFCS. I avoid HFCS, so my options are supremely limited. Snapple in my opinion, is one of the healthiest teas on the planet.
Snapple was a big part of my High School era, where you felt mildly fancy hauling around those big glass bottles. It was the first really big break from soda that pretended it was healthy or artisan.
Company Man: "Within another year they were up to fifty-three flavors."
Me: And now they're down to three of four. 😒
I remember when I was a kid and there were so many flavors. There was a grape one I liked and the lemonade.
I still need to go find some Diet (Red) Snapple Apple! The regular kind is the absolute best and the way they captured a red apple flavor - as opposed to going the more obvious route of making an apple juice flavor - is amazing!
I loved their kiwi strawberry juice back in the day.
Great video. Snapple is still the go for iced tea on the go for me. I remember the "Snapple Lady" and she's adorable. What Quaker did is a prime example of not understanding the symbiosis of the brand and its consumers. There's no need to reinvent the wheel sometimes.
There is still a lot of room for improvement with distribution. Snapple is one of those drinks I always look for and rarely see.
I enjoyed the endorsements they had with Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh back in the 1990s.
OMG, I remember the Snapple lady!
I fucking love snapple man. I was in the dominican rep. when I was like 8 and was complaining that I wanted juice but all that was available was soda, water, and snapple lemon tea. after the first sip I begged for a bottle every single day for months. Later on in highschool, a girl in my class would always walk in with a bottle of snapple peach iced tea. It smelled so good and I thought she looked cool with it lmao so I again developed an obsession for it and it hasn't gone away. I had a gallon of snapple peach in my fridge, 4 bottles of their green tea, and I recently bought four six pack cases (they were on sale, buy 2 get 2 😜). I think arizona is great too and I'll usually pick up a can or jug in place of it along with snapple but snapple is my favorite 😌
Snapple is alright, but if I'm buying premade I go for Arizona. Cheaper and tastes better. Usually I just make it myself though, with lipton tea bags.
I used to LOVE Snapple growing up in the 90s and I most definitely remember the commercials with the Snapple lady! Kiwi strawberry was pretty much all I drank, Haven't had it in forever though and I am bummed to hear they switched to plastic.... The glass bottles were part of their appeal!
You completely missed why it was growing so fast in the early '90s, The Rush Limbaugh radio program was just getting off the ground in NYC and early on Rush made Snapple the official beverage of his radio program and would drink it on air. Snapple was still a regional brand but because of Rush Limbaugh large cost to cost audience people were ready to buy as soon as it came to their town.
I live in Texas and that is where I heard about it, the diet peach tea was great
RIP el rushbo
I look forward to seeing your videos every week.. Keep up the great work
I loved that you included the real facts 👍
Do a Comcast video. I just thought they were a cable network but now they keep making 65 billion dollars bids for companies. I would like to see a video about them. Also great video. I loved it
A bigger than you know video on Pokemon would be much appreciated
Yes!!
The idea of an entire company based around a video game is extremely fascinating. It should be noted that said company is not Nintendo per se, but a trio of companies in which Nintendo is a partner.
Yes do this next!
@@gars129 yeah GameFreak and Creatures Inc I think.
I’m liking the new fast pace of these videos.
All about that Kombucha now
expensive af 4 times more expensive than a typical unhealthy delicious drink
Yucky
That shit is disgusting
Grew up in the hometown of Snapple, used to be able to walk to the corporate office and and free samples ( usually about 2 bottles).
where is there hometown?
Tried it in the US, i like it. Snapple lady is cool.
Hey ! Company Man I was just watching retro Wendy Snapple commercials,you're right on time with this video.
Fun Fact: Snapple released a 'Real Facts' board game a few years back.
I loved hearing you have so much fun in this video, Mike. Good stuff. 😊
Snapple always has an odd unpleasant after taste. I only thing I like about Snapple are the cap facts
fuck you
I love your videos man
Just wanted to say that
What happened to Bartles and Jaymes, the "... and thank you for your support." alcohol beverage company?
Yes! I'd like to see a video about that.
Another refreshing episode of Company Man. I remember the strawberry kiwi drink - that's a tasty beverage!
I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THE SNAPPLE LADY. Hahaha.
The advertising campaign in the 1990s, including the Snapple Lady, made the brand seen like a small company that sold great products. I loved the brand because I felt like I was drinking something healthier than a soda and supporting an underdog. And then (presumably around the time of the Quaker Oats acquisition that I was unaware of until today), the brand changed. It became just another mass market beverage, the marketing stopped, and honestly I forgot about them. Today I was at Safeway looking for a non soda beverage in a non glass package for travel and was delighted to discover their glass packaging.
Interesting "real fact" - one of their bottle caps said Caller ID was illegal in California and I wrote them to tell them I had Caller ID on my California home phone line. They wrote back, said they had gotten it from a book and hadn't fact checked it, and they would take that one out of circulation. It added to the feel of a simple, family run or small business brand with a great product.
I love this. I'm a huge Snapple fan, I try to keep my refrigerator stocked with Peach Tea at all times.
Same lol
I prefer lemon. Peach is a close second though!
I liked Snapple a lot as a teen in the 90s but my tastes have changed over the years and now I find it too sweet.
I bought a Snapple literally a couple minutes before this showed up in my feed... >_>
A-MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-zing!
Blue Shirt Kid: That's because of the youtube algorithm
great story bro
You should do a video on the Detroit Three automakers (GM, Chrysler and Ford) and how they were dethroned by China during the 2009 recession. I think it would be an interesting topic to talk about. Also, i would love to see a video on Kraft Foods. Inc's splitting in 2012, and how it formed Mondelez International and Kraft Foods (owned by Kraft Heinz).
You should do Luxottica - Bigger Than You Know
I still see it in grocery stores but I don't see many flavors. It was nice when it first came out and there were so many flavors. I remember Rush Limbaugh used to endorse it, they bought advertising with him, he would pop open a bottle on air and talk about how much he liked it, then apparently Snapple became "PC" and stopped advertising on his show, maybe it was after Quaker bought them, and I heard it really hurt their sales without that advertising. I don't know if you remember a product New York Seltzer, a carbonated flavored water, it came in tons of flavors. I remember them coming to campus in the late 80s promoting it. Never found out what happened with them. We'd love to see you do one on Books-A-Million and what happened with them, same with Borders Books and Music, and 9-Lives. 9-Lives used to be the only cat in town (pardon the pun) but now it's relegated to the cheap bottom shelf in stores with few varieties.
When did they start putting facts on the cap? and why?
So here in the Midwest and plains states (mostly, I think there were a few in CA) we've recently learned that Shopko - a big box store like Target or Kmart - is closing for good. It was a slow close and started with the news that their pharmacies were closing because the company is so far behind in paying their drug suppliers after years of trying to build themselves up as a major part of that convenience health market. It sounds like that was the one breeze that toppled the whole house of cards, and I'm finding the story fascinating. I actually live maybe two miles from the very first store in Green Bay, WI and maybe five miles from the corporate buildings in Ashwaubenon, WI, so we're being hit pretty hard here due to the closures. Last year's scramble for all of the local pharmacies to pick up Shopko's suddenly care-less customers alone was pretty spectacular to see. It may be worth a look for you.
Real fact #999: The "company man" is an artificial inteligence own by disney.
I enjoy most of the Snapple drinks every now and again. Not something I ever really seek out, but I'd certainly miss them if they went away. Sometimes the Mango tea, the half tea, half lemonade, and the lemon tea really hits the spot.
Hey, I remember going to a pizza party place a few years back on it’s last day open. It was called Malibu Grand Prix, and not only was it closing, but it was the last one in San Antonio.
It seems like Malibu was a pretty big chain up until something occurred. I was hoping that maybe you’d explain it’s decline. I think it’d be really interesting.
You may have overlooked the most important reason Snapple sales crashed after the Quaker Oats purchase. Snapple's first and most successful national advertising campaign was on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. For three hours every day Limbaugh urged his millions of listeners to buy Snapple which they did in droves. When Quaker Oats purchased the company, they immediately cancelled the Limbaugh contract citing the conservative theme of the radio program and specifically Limbaugh's stance on LGBTQ issues. Limbaugh wasted no time telling his fans that the new owners of Snapple despised him AND them, the listeners. Immediately practically every Limbaugh fan stopped buying Snapple in protest. Sales crashed nationwide. Limbaugh continued to bang the drum against Quaker Oats/Snapple for months, just to remind the fans of what happened. As you noted, Quaker Oats never recovered from this gaffe and eventually had to sell the failing brand.
@mike black, and he later did his own ice tea, "Two if by Tea"
I only buy Snapple to read the quotes under the cap.
*An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.*
Honey is the only food that can never spoil, it may crystallize but will always be edible...
I wonder if someone has a complete collection of them
@Zachary Laid Finding Freedom you need to get laid.. FAST
I've been watching this channel for a few weeks now on and off and I only just noticed that I wasn't subbed. Lol Subbed now. Keep up the good stuff, I keep using some of your stuff to break the ice with new people lol.
arizona: huge cans cheap price!
brisk: cheaper price still huge cans
Thanks. I just remembered to pick up a couple of bottles of Snapple. Hadn't had it in a while.
Snapple is the only tea that I'll drink. Tried lipton, arizona tea, etc... their taste dont come close to Snapple.
Make some homemade iced tea and drink some everyday for a month, then try Snapple. You'll never drink Snapple again. Snapple is bland and watered down.
Lemon Tea Snapple is the smoothest thing on my throat,
stops me from coughing, too bad it's so rare to find that flavor now, you know, their main brand flavor...
@@Omar-em7rl agreed. Thier peach tea is the best.
@@frank234561 i do have a lemon tree in my backyard and I do make lemon sweat tea and I agree with you that it does taste much better. Thier peach tea cant be beat though.
Omg I have watched you since 1k glad to see u growing
I have an idea of a video.
The rise, fall and rise agian of The company man TH-cam channel. :)
he should honestly film himself tripping on a rock, and then standing back up to satisfy this comment.
@@Omar-em7rl -- Film him riding in a glass elevator from the hotel lobby
@@Omar-em7rl great idea
@@czdaniel1 that could work
@@mikeey6804 I agree. It was just a thought
I remember when Snapple was selling juice before ice tea in NYC, my friends store was selling it before it was popular
Arizona is the best. Tried Snapple and Arizona and Arizona tase trumps Snapple. Plus, $0.99 for 24oz, cant beat that price
been that price forever. I think that says something about that company.
I love snapple. I collect their caps. And i always buy snapple especially the orange flavor
Do Lipton next
Okay, so check this out: I'm a huge Mystery Science Theater 3000 mark and I taped a lot of episodes off of TV when I was a kid. In the summer of 1995, when I taped most of my stuff, the commercals on Comedy Central had a lot of Snapple representation.
Specifically the "Snapple Lady" would pop up a lot in my fast forwarding in the 90s. In the 2000s and later I've watched these tapes as time capsules with friends (Atlanta 1996 Olympics and Windows '95 ads are also all over the place) we've talked about how good these spots were. They put a Snapple vending machine in someone's office!
I dig how you kept reading off those bottlecap facts without explaining why you kept doing that. Unless you did and I missed it. Ah shit, I missed it...
Hey if i can make a request for a rise and fall of (Southwest Airlines)✈️
I remember we always use to Fly Southwest....now days it is anything but
i like snapple (the name is great, btw) but their prices are a bit high for me. i only buy cases when they're on sale. i love the lemonade/iced tea ones. raspberry is good too!