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On the Side

Is the word

Most American breweries went out of business when
Prohibition took effect 100 years ago (see page 94), “vegetarian”
but a few survived the 13-year alcohol ban by making good for
other products. Check out these side hustles!
business?

Coors Not always!
The Coors family turned Colorado When Panera
clay deposits into dinnerware and switched the
lab equipment, and CoorsTek is now the name of its low-fat
world’s largest producer of technical vegetarian black
ceramics, like car and spaceship parts.
bean soup to Cuban
black bean soup
at some locations,
Pabst sales went up
The Milwaukee-based beer maker shifted 13 percent!
to a different Wisconsin standby: cheese. You’ll see Baja,
Pabst produced more than 8 million Mediterranean
pounds of a Velveeta-like spread,
Pabst-ett, before selling the business and other regional
to Kraft when Prohibition ended. names on new
dishes this year.
SOURCE: BETTER BUYING LAB

Yuengling
Frank D. Yuengling opened an ice cream
plant across the street from the brewery
in Pottsville, PA, that continued producing
ice cream until 1985. A family member
revived the business in 2014.

Going,

After a Twitter battle
going... out of faux-meat patties August, Popeyes sold its Hard seltzer was BEER, CHEESE, ICE CREAM AND CERAMICS: GETTY IMAGES. CHICKEN SANDWICH: ALAMY.
with Chick-fil-A in
2019’s drink of
the summer:
from Impossible Foods in entire chicken sandwich White Claw sales
As we head into 2020 and predict the June, the supplier had to inventory in two weeks. nearly tripled, and
year’s big food trends (see page 26), we issue a brief ordering cap. The Popeyes sandwich by September the
should all remember that you can love Impossible Foods recovered returned on November 3: company could
a new product to death. Look what in time for Burger King a Sunday, when Chick- barely keep up. The
to launch meatless
fil-A stores are closed!
shelves have since
happened to these hot items in 2019!
Whoppers in August. been restocked.

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