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Commentaire par Rhea Côté Robbins le 28 Mars 2009 à 9 53

...the quality on the video is not that great, but I took it down off the tv, transferred the tv file on my pc to .mov--huge file, took that file over to my Mac, made a .mov ready for prime time Web viewing...after all those steps...things got slightly grainy, but that is what you get when you work with freebies, or near freebie programs. The message is there...just the same.

Commentaire par Rhea Côté Robbins le 28 Mars 2009 à 9 51

...one thing leads to another...you might want to check out my book, Wednesday's Child, which talks about prince spaghetti day...which was Wednesdays, btw...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[Franco-American--not to be confused with French American...]
This article is about the food company and brand. For Franco-Americans (i.e., Americans of French descent) see French American.

Franco-American is a brand name of the Campbell Soup Company.

The original Franco-American Food Company was founded by Alphonse Biardot, who immigrated to the United States from France in 1880. In 1886, he and his two sons opened a commercial kitchen in Jersey City, New Jersey, featuring the foods of his native country. The company proved a success, particularly with its line of canned soup and pasta, and it was acquired by Campbell's in 1915.

The Franco-American name was phased out over the next two decades for soup products and in the late-1990s for pasta products. On November 18, 2004, Campbell's announced it was discontinuing the name for pasta products in favor of its own, "to boost sales of what had been Franco-American's canned SpaghettiOs, RavioliOs and regular spaghetti, along with beef, chicken and turkey gravy varieties sold in cans and jars."

The most famous product sold under the Franco-American brand was incontestably SpaghettiOs, first sold May 16, 1965. SpaghettiOs are variously-sized rings of cooked pasta in a sweet tomato and cheese sauce, sold in cans. According to one account, Campbell's food chemist Ralph Miller was inspired by a signature dish of the company chef, sliced elbow macaroni in a soupy tomato sauce. "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs," the refrain of the product's advertising jingle, became a meme in its own right.

As of April 2008, the Campbell Soup Company continues to sell gravy under the Franco-American name[1], along with a small line of condensed soups that appear to be similar to soups sold under the Campbell's brand. As of December 2008, it appears that the soup line has been discontinued,[2] but that the gravy line remains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-American_(Campbell%27s)

Commentaire par Bill Cork le 27 Mars 2009 à 20 44

You used to hear "Franco-American" on TV all the time ... on commercials for SpaghettiOs. :-)

Commentaire par Joseph Theriault le 27 Mars 2009 à 19 12

Thanks for sharing this clip. It's nice to hear the words "Franco-American" said on TV -- it gives the impression that it doesn't need an explanation.

The part of me that always wants more: the next step now to get it said on a local French TV show ...