Talk:Kettle Foods

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Contents 1 Trivia 1.1 Appearance in popular culture 2 Additions by User:Michael Slocum 3 Taisetsu na mono!!!

[edit] Trivia

In my opinion none of the pop culture references are remotely notable or worth integrating into the text. Nor are they cited. I'm moving them here for discussion.

[edit] Appearance in popular culture

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• In the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Bill can be seen eating Kettle brand potato chips in the back of his stepmother's car in the scene where the two of them pick up Ted for school.
• In the film Short Circuit (1986), Kettle brand potato chips are seen with groceries in the back of an elderly couple's pickup truck.
• In the film Born in East L.A. (1987), Rudy's cousin, Javier, is seen eating Kettle Chips while the phone rings in the background.
• In the television series The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob can be seen eating Kettle brand potato chips on top of the lights above the stage of Krusty the Klown's last show. He labels them the "perfect side dish… for revenge."

Katr67 17:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Additions by User:Michael Slocum

In 1979 Michael Slocum began roasting the first product while employed at the Golden Temple Bakery in Eugene, the nuts where for natural foods stores. In 1981 Slocum he took the old nut roaster to Salem, he started setting up equipment for new products: peanuts, sunflower seeds, and mixed nuts. Then in 1982 adding a small oil roaster for more products, Slocum and a fellow employee working a graveyard shift for a rush order were cooking potatoes on top of peanuts for early morning snacks, Healy coming back from a vacation asked Slocum if he could make a chip, his response “get me a slicer”, after some experiments the chips was born. Healy was in India at the time, when he got back, the original group picked the name. Slocum roasted nuts by day, and with a small group of employees produced chips at night, Slocum tricked out a small sealer to seal 6 bags at a time, he packaged the first bags, and the first night produced 20 cases of chips. After Some research in the East Coast in Pennsylvania and visited the Kettle- Cooked Potato Chip plant in Akron, Ohio. Slocum found the right equipment to expand the plant with help from Michael Seasons of Chicago. The new plant used these ideas in 1983, which lead to the success of the company. Slocum ideas where used after he left the company in 1985. The Original chips were fried in Cold-pressed Safflower oil. He introduced the first flavors New York Cheddar and Green Onion and Yogurt with help from Healy's wife; she loved the flavors, too. Slocum is now a chef in the Portland area, and volunteers helping other in Hunger/ Homeless issues.

Hi Michael, and welcome to Wikipedia. Unfortunately we can't use original research in our articles. Though I'm sure everything you say is true, we can't include it in an article unless it has citations to reliable, third-party sources. I know this is a frustrating aspect of the project, but hopefully you have been interviewed in the press or else this history has been written in a reliable source? If you can provide sources we can work on putting the information back in the article. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Katr67 (talk) 22:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Taisetsu na mono!!!

An important thing, you guys! Kettle brand kettle chips are by NO MEANS the only kettle chips in existence... so kettle chips probably shouldn't redirect here, any more than 'cola' should redirect to coca-cola. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 04:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

No, but they did trademark the term, and only later lost the trademark for failing to renew with the USPTO. The Coke inventor did not come up with the term Cola, it came from a plant. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)