8 bags to Fritolay
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
So I’m banging out the online orders, entering them into my database when I notice a person with @fritolay.com in their email address. I google their shipping address: 7701 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX. It’s the headquarters of Fritolay! This is cool…I’m sending 8 bags of Velma’s Wicked Delicious Kettle Corn to someone at Fritolay! Here’s what I wrote in my email:
Ya know, if you guys could figure out how to make this stuff for real on an industrial scale, you’d make a killing. I certainly got some ideas.
I’m planning on making a silly flash movie where I bash all the other “major” versions of kettle corn. (Popcorn Indiana, etc.) Nobody knows how to do it right. They think if you air-pop come popcorn and squirt some flavoring on it and call it “kettle corn”, no one will notice.
Getting no reply, I sent a follow up email:
OK, popped up a batch yesterday and will be shipping your order out today. (August 29th)
Noticing that it’s going to the corporate headquarters of Fritolay…I can only imagine…
..someone at their desk going, “GOD, if they make me eat another bag of Doritos I’m gonna quit!”
..after much web surfing..
“oh, what’s this?”
Thanks for the order!
Eric(I would love to know if my kettle corn magnet is up someplace in Fritolay.)
I basically got this for a reply:
Eric,
Thank you so very much for the update. I appreciate your prompt response to my purchase and really enjoy your great humor!!
Hmmm…wadda ya think? We’re going to be seeing giant bags of Fritolay kettle corn in our supermarkets soon? I’m certainly not big enough to be bought out by these guys. Hell, I’ve put the recipe up on this website in a big, stupid flash movie. Oh well, I guess this will have to be my only brush with greatness. Back to the tent.
