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The Doritos origin story: Repurposed garbage from Disneyland

2014 May 6, 7:16

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A reminder that those Doritos you love are trash:

Shortly after Disneyland opened in 1955, the founder of Frito-Lay got permission from Walt Disney to open a restaurant in Frontierland with a Mexican-ish theme. “Casa de Fritos” was, unsurprisingly, all about the Fritos. Customers got free Fritos, and Fritos were incorporated into many of the dishes. Fritos were dispensed by an animatronic vending machine that featured the terrifying “Frito Kid”asking his assistant “Klondike” to bring the bag up from a mineshaft. I guess the conceit is that Fritos were mined by Forty-Niners?

Casa de Fritos contracted their tortilla production to a company called Alex Foods. One of the salesmen from Alex Foods, making a delivery to Casa de Fritos, noticed stale tortillas in the garbage and gave the cook a little tip: fry them and sell them as chips instead of throwing them away. Casa de Fritos began making these fried, seasoned chips to enormous success, but didn’t report this new menu item to the Frito-Lay company.

Eventually Frito-Lay found out what they were doing with the chips, packaged them, and sold them by the truckload. See, dumpster diving works out sometimes!

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IKEA's New Catalogs: Less Pine, More Pixels - WSJ.com

2012 Aug 24, 3:15

CGI for the IKEA catalog:

That couch catching your eye in the 2013 edition of IKEA’s new catalog may not be a couch at all. It is likely the entire living room was created by a graphic artist. In fact, much of the furniture and settings in the 324-page catalog are simply a collection of pixels and polygons arranged on a computer.

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Flavorwire » Re-assembly Required: Artists on IKEA

2010 Feb 22, 7:34Art created from IKEA products.PermalinkCommentsart design ikea hack

Artist Shopdropped Her Work on Black Friday – Neatorama

2009 Dec 8, 1:54'As crowds rushed to find deals at the Emeryville, CA IKEA store, one of them had a plan other than shopping. Michelle Pred was actually placing her artwork, complete with working IKEA barcodes, into the inventory, an act she calls “shopdropping.”'PermalinkCommentscultural-disobediance shopdropping art ikea barcode

Kane at IKEA

2009 Nov 12, 8:37

sequelguy posted a photo:

Kane at IKEA

Found this hat next to a giant mirror and so Kane put it on.

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The IKEA Fancy Dress Dinner Party

2009 Aug 11, 9:11Invite your friends for a fancy dress party with wine, dinner and board games of course, at IKEA. "...Jason downplayed our real intent, but let the very nice man know that we were here to play board games, and that we had chosen IKEA for the location because it was so much nicer that any of our own actual homes..."
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List Of The Day: Banned Ikea Commercials Of The Day

2008 Apr 29, 4:34Humorous Ikea commercials not seen in the US. I like the lamp one.PermalinkCommentsikea commercial tv blog humor video

ikea hacker

2007 Mar 20, 5:59Projects people have produced using Ikea products.PermalinkCommentsblog cool design diy furniture hack tutorial ikea
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