Well, That's Just Great

There's a saying that goes, "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were". In other words, say you have a new-found love for something, like O-Ke-Doke Cheese Popcorn. If you search the internet for place to buy this popcorn, but you come up empty, was it never meant to be?

Here's the whole, sordid story: while traveling to Michigan on business, I discovered O-Ke-Doke Cheese Popcorn. It had a name that aspired to mediocrity, and it came in an awful orange package, but boy, did it taste good.

Since then, I looked for places online to buy it. Amazon has a listing for it, but it simply teases that it may become available sometime soon. The company that make the popcorn, Jay's Foods, has a website that merely states "come back soon". There don't seem to be any other online stores that sell it.

I've finally called the search off. I found this news article from January of this year: after 80 years, Jay's Foods has closed its doors and auctioned off its manufacturing equipment. It turns out that by the time I had discovered it in March, it was already dead.

Oh, the humanity!

R.I.P., sweet O-Ke-Doke - we hardly knew ye

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