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For some reason I always thought Haribo was a Japanese product because of the name.
by m-p-3 4y ago
For some reason I always thought Haribo was a Japanese product because of the name.
- pvg 4y agoIf you get the jingle lodged in your brain, you'll never forget or escape their profound Germanness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9YuOuP44Rc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9YuOuP44Rc
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoIs is somewhat remarkable how many successful candy companies are German or have German roots. I wonder why. My own great grandparents, who were German, worked as chocolatiers.
- jamiek88 4y agoChemistry and food are very similar and Germany was/is the world leader in that. Most chemists can read German as a result.
- pbj1968 4y agoLol no.
- pvg 4y agoIt's certainly not the only thing but it helps to have developed things like an urban, non-agrarian middle class fairly early. It churns out more specialized artisans and the customers for their wares.
- Lio 4y agoI would guess that having an established pork processing industry also helped as a ready supply of gelatine byproduct.
- lisper 4y agoFor the benefit of those of you who don't speak German, the lyrics of the jingle are "Haribo makes children happy, and grownups as well".
- dylan604 4y agoNot once ever have I been able to open a bag that easily!
- jinwoo68 4y agoMany people used to think that Nokia was a Japanese company too.
- jmspring 4y agoFinnish tire and paper product company Amongst its early origins
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoThey make the best snow tires
- croes 4y agoAnd rubber boots
- agumonkey 4y agoNot stranger than card manufacturers turning video game giant or pencil brand making plasma TV. It's fun to see how companies evolve.
- jhbadger 4y agoApparently Nokia's first product was toilet roll!
- riedel 4y agoActually they have been ''globalized': They moved from Bonn (as still in the name) a few km across the state border to to Rhineland Palladia. At least that is what I saw driving by on the highway. I guess to save taxes. Another funny thing is that as a vegetarian I realized quite late that this is a meat product (gelantine). It remains the only "meat" I eat kind of regularly because, as mentioned somewhere, they are still the best.
- xwdv 4y agoThat would probably make you a gelatinarian, not a vegetarian.
- JetAlone 4y agoGelatin is a by-product, eating it supports the profitability of animal slaughter. Yet still, there seems to be some distance between eating it and the behaviour of that one guy in Scott Pilgrim who loses his veganchad super powers because "Chicken's not vegan?".
- colordrops 4y agoIt's an animal product, plain and simple. To base ethics on whether the product is in the critical path for profitability doesn't seem much different from vegan chicken eaters.
- xwdv 4y agoNope. If you eat it I don’t think you can really be a vegetarian. You cannot launder food until it becomes vegetarian. If an animal was killed off for you to consume a product, it is not vegetarian and consuming one won’t make you vegetarian. To me it’s no different than “vegetarians” who still indulge in bacon because it happens to be really tasty. It is not too late though to give up gelatin based gummy bears and eat ethically the rest of your life.
- JetAlone 4y agoOr we can choose to reply as sanctimonious radicals. I'm experienced at working that angle too.
- pimlottc 4y agoAlways seemed Mexican to me for some odd reason.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoSimilar to Jarritos maybe? Colourful sweet things with almost-rhyming names.
- Sharlin 4y agoAFAIK Western-style sweets/candies aren’t very popular or common in Japan, at least historically.
- Lio 4y agoWhat about Kit-Kat? That's a British chocolate bar that the Japanese seem to have taken that to their hearts at least.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoException that confirms the rule? And the Japanese relationship to KitKat is pretty different from ours :) I agree it's quite peculiar :D
- jansan 4y agoIn case someone overlooked it in the article, the name HARIBO comes from HAns RIedel BOnn (company owner's name and location of company).
- usrusr 4y agoNot Riedel, Riegel, with a g, which would ironically be a literal translation of the "bar" in "chocolate bar" which they don't make. Immortalized in the name of the fictional chocolate bar company Riegel Klotz, where Riegel is the product, Klotz is the former family name (but describing the shape of the product just as well) while the current name of the family is Drögel with would roughly translate to "Bland Bar".
- jansan 4y agoWow, I got this wrong for at least ten years.
- usrusr 4y agoAnd I got Riegel Klotz wrong, for a similar time: thought that it was Riegel Drögel, when it's in fact Riegel Klotz and Riegel Drögel only appears in a few lines. Only corrected myself through Google-checking my writing here.
- currysausage 4y agoDoesn't the "L" of the "KLOTZ" neon sign also flicker at some point, strongly evoking the connotation "KOTZ" ("PUKE"), just as Evelyn Hamann feels slightly overwhelmed after tasting too many Klotz-Riegel? I just love how Loriot managed to combine immature puns and insinuations and profound character studies into surreal pieces of art that cause whole families to laugh until one cries. May he rest in peace.
- usrusr 4y agoNever noticed (or never committed to memory after noticing), but yeah, how could that opportunity be left untapped. He was a perfectionist engineer of jokes, the entertainer equivalent to that proverbial Scala coder who'd rewrite the entire thing if he came up late with an idea to monadify away yet another side effect. May he rest in peace, and may upcoming generations memorize that movie just like we did (it was already twenty years old when I started falling for it)