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Article: Gaga Over Baby Food; Guess Who's Digging Into Those Little Jars, and Why?
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- The Washington Post
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- April 27, 1988
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Adriene Van Edwards' favorite baby foods are apples-plums, sweet
potatoes and pears. Her four jars a week may not sound like true
devotion-but then again, Van Edwards isn't a baby. She's 26.
Anna Pullin, the commissioner of revenue for Staunton, Va., baked a
prune cake for a city Christmas function. She says she doesn't
usually advertise the recipe-but its ingredients include two jars of
baby food.
This is National Baby Week-and since the little consumers don't
know the difference anyway, it seems more fitting to salute the big
ones. For as regressive as it sounds, people besides babies eat baby
food.
"Adults are definitely a secondary market," said Arnold Koss,
president of Earth's ...