Last week it was announced that Campbell Soup was issuing a recall of 15 million pounds of the wildly popular product – SpaghettiOs with meatballs. The news of this immediately prompted my brain to play the delightful jingle that went along with the product. “Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs!” Uh-oh? Seems like a damning promotion. Here’s my theory on why the marketing department would have such a threatening slogan.
True story: Greg Campbell, upon inheriting the Campbell Soup dynasty became infuriated at his late father's last will and testament which declared one stipulation of said inheritance. Greg was not to pursue his homosexual lifestyle. Instead he was to marry Stephanie Lipton who had been bequeathed by her father in hopes of monopolizing the soup industry and amassing the two highly lucrative corporations. Greg decided the only way to save some fortune but get back at his late father was to get the worst marketing firm, McCann, Hertz and Howe, to write a jingle for their most profitable product - the spaghettiO. And given his father's shark like business skills (which Greg also inherited) he was able to sell this to the board of directors, thus birthing the wildly popular, yet horribly damaging ditty. Now Greg's evil plot to take down his father's dynasty has finally come to fruition with the recall of spaghettiO with meatballs! While the company begins its downward spiral towards bankruptcy, Greg has already left Stephanie, moved down to Tijuana to be with his lover Rico, and has no legal culpability because he has been warning the American public for years by simply uttering "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs."
True story: Greg Campbell, upon inheriting the Campbell Soup dynasty became infuriated at his late father's last will and testament which declared one stipulation of said inheritance. Greg was not to pursue his homosexual lifestyle. Instead he was to marry Stephanie Lipton who had been bequeathed by her father in hopes of monopolizing the soup industry and amassing the two highly lucrative corporations. Greg decided the only way to save some fortune but get back at his late father was to get the worst marketing firm, McCann, Hertz and Howe, to write a jingle for their most profitable product - the spaghettiO. And given his father's shark like business skills (which Greg also inherited) he was able to sell this to the board of directors, thus birthing the wildly popular, yet horribly damaging ditty. Now Greg's evil plot to take down his father's dynasty has finally come to fruition with the recall of spaghettiO with meatballs! While the company begins its downward spiral towards bankruptcy, Greg has already left Stephanie, moved down to Tijuana to be with his lover Rico, and has no legal culpability because he has been warning the American public for years by simply uttering "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs."
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