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Article: SUPERMARKET SLEUTH; The intrepid Mr. Tidbit has a long memory as he tells the tale of years of new products.(TASTE)(TASTE THROUGH THE YEARS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 1, 2009
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Byline: AL SICHERMAN
Special to the Star Tribune
Supermarket shelves looking crowded? New products are the foundation of marketing. From oat bran to acai, from fat-free to low-carb, here's a sampling of supermarket highlights -- and lowlights -- boiled down from the 23 years that the Tidbits column has appeared in the Taste section. (Tidbits began in 1981 in the Minneapolis Tribune's Food section -- the competitor to the Minneapolis Star's Taste section.)
1987
Bye-bye, aluminum pie: Swanson has completed converting what used to be called "TV dinners" from their original aluminum trays to plastic. The process began in 1984. An original ...