Captured another drive-by shot of my favorite building in Sacramento
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@Rycaut @Alice@gram.social @lisamelton I’m curious about this part:
"We got to taste the research - As a rule any new product we liked as a family didn’t end up making it to the market"
Wouldn't they want a product that seemed to be universally liked?
@Alice@beige.party @Alice@gram.social @lisamelton keep in mind this was the early 1980’s.
We got to taste stuff like new flavors of hostess fruit pies that my dad’s team were working on - generally if our family liked it the flavor was more complex than they ended up wanting to sell to the market at that time. This was almost 45 years ago and I was 6 or so so I’m not remembering all the flavors we rejected but basically we weren’t the typical American household - we liked stronger flavors
@Alice fantastic, the colours and composition, lovely.
@bobthomson70 @Alice@gram.social I’m always surprised when I get a clear shot because @KevBot usually notices the building at the last minute and then I fumble to grab my phone to take a quick photo.
One of these days, I’m just going to go there and walk around to take some "real" photos.
@Alice@beige.party @Alice@gram.social @KevBot even more impressive taking that when not standing still. I can't even get a video of passing jet fighter by the time I get my phone going :)
@bobthomson70 @Alice@gram.social @KevBot To be fair, neither the building nor car are moving nearly as fast as a jet fighter. 🤣
@Alice @lisamelton when I was very little my dad was head of R&D for Continental Baking Corp - who, at the time, owned Hostess Foods.
Ie my dad was, for a time, in charge of the food design of Twinkies and Wonder Bread and all the other products of early 1980’s Hostess Foods.
(We got to taste the research - As a rule any new product we liked as a family didn’t end up making it to the market)
When I was about 8 however he took another job that moved us from NY to Chicago