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The original packaging used the phrase "Ayds Reducing Plan vitamin and mineral Candy"; a later version used the phrase "appetite suppressant candy". The active ingredient was originally benzocaine, [1] presumably to reduce the sense of taste to reduce eating, later changed in the candy (as reported by The New York Times) to phenylpropanolamine. [2]
B. Baby Bottle Pop; Baby Ruth; Bamsemums; Bar One; Barratt (confectionery) Bazooka (chewing gum) Big Hunk; Bit-O-Honey; Black Bullets; Black Jack (confectionery)
Campana Corporation was incorporated in Delaware in 1926, then authorized to operate in Illinois in 1927. Its first product was Italian Balm, a hand lotion.According to I. Willard Crull, the founder's nephew and successor as president, Italian Balm was invented by William Cox, who named the product after Dr. Roberto Campana, an Italian skin specialist he held in high regard.
Ayds was an appetite-suppressant candy which enjoyed strong sales in the 1970s and early 1980s. By the mid-1980s, public awareness of the disease AIDS caused problems for the brand due to the phonetic similarity of the names.
Ayds diet suppressant candy, which had existed for decades prior, continued to use this phonetically identical brand name through the 1980s, as the HIV/AIDS epidemic continued to grow. In 1985–1986, use of the name was in fact defended by executives of the company that manufactured it, as a boon to sales.
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J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd., better known as Fry's, was a British chocolate company owned by Joseph Storrs Fry and his family. Beginning in Bristol in 1761, the business went through several changes of name and ownership, becoming J. S. Fry & Sons in 1822.