Sixty Percent of Those Canned French Fried Onions Are Sold Between October and December

Sixty Percent of Those Canned French Fried Onions Are Sold Between October and December

From the Washington Post a couple of years back:

They must taste like they have since 1955, when Campbell's invented the homey two-can side dish, your beans and your cream of mushroom soup, a soft, soothing mush of a thing given a kick and a crunch with your can of FFOs....

There's really only one shot for the plant to get its production right. French's mustard and its GourMayo sells all year long, but its onions? Sixty percent of the company's FFO sales come between October and December, say French's officials, or 30 million units of canned onion aroma. ...

To ask why we eat FFOs is an attempt to get at the root of Thanksgiving gluttony itself. There is no reason except that we are Americans and it is our God-given right.

Comments

[Carol Mickle]

Damn straight! Actually, I've tried 'em, don't care for 'em. I prefer my greenbeans with butter and canned button mushroom thrown in!