But regardless, the marketing nostalgia is soaked deep into my brain wrinkles when I hear the word “Kudos.”
Delish said it’s “ The Most Upsetting Loss Of Our Generation.” I remember it as an okay chocolate granola bar we didn’t buy often.
Healthy eating movements can be hard on snack food brands. There’s a lot of speculation about why Mars killed the Kudos brand.
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The song is a Randy Newman-meets-Billy Joel-meets-unhealthy granola bar-positioned that it will help-you-be-healthy-and-athletic kind of a situation that any kid who watched as much TV as I did in the late 80s and early 90s surely will recall and probably believed. Its slogan was “Kudos, I’m yours!” with a 30-second jingle that persisted for years. The granola bar of the same name launched in 1986 and was officially killed via a Facebook post in 2017. ( as well as the words tycoon, pundit, and socialite). But if you think of kudos like we use the words ethos, bathos, or hubris – it’s basically the same thing.Īnyway, kudos means “praise given for achievement,” and Time Magazine is credited with bringing kudos to the U.S.
Of course, even that assertion is contentious as our language evolves. Turns out a “kudo” is a false singular since kudos comes from Greek (therefore the “s” doesn’t make it plural). This isn’t a “Like,” after all. It’s a Kudos. So it sent me down a late night rabbit hole into the history of kudos before I go giving them to people irresponsibly. A kudo? Is there a singular Kud? It’s basically a Seinfeld joke, right?īut ‘Give Kudos’ is a primary CTA for LinkedIn, and that bothered me. So I of course screenshotted it and ironically texted it to my coworker and said “Taking a moment” with a screenshot and then included a photo of a box of Kudos-brand granola bars. As one does.īut from there, the conversation devolved into our memories of Kudos granola bars. Mars real chocolate.This week I got a notification on LinkedIn asking me to “Take a moment to recognize 4 years of being connected to your coworker” and had a call-to-action button labeled “Give Kudos.” Call 1-80 or visit us at Please save the unused product and wrapper. To learn more visit We value your questions or comments. Contains 2 g of whole grains per serving. What's inside? 100 calories (5% DV) 2.5 g total fat (4% DV) 1.5 g sat fat (8% DV) 8 g sugars (No DV defined) 110 mg sodium (5% DV) per serving (3 servings per pack). Contains 2 g of whole grains per serving Kudos Brand with Dove Brand Milk Chocolate Drizzle: 100 calories (5% DV) per serving 10 servings per pack. Contains 2 g of whole grains per serving Kudos Brand with Snickers Brand Peanuts: 100 calories (5% DV) 3.5 g total fat (5% DV) 1.5 g sat fat (8% DV) sugars 8 g (No DV defined) 100 mg sodium (4% DV) per serving (3 servings per pack). What's inside? Kudos Brand with M&M's Brand Minis Milk Chocolate Candies: 100 calories (5% DV) 2.5 g total fat (4% DV) 1.5 sat fat (8% DV) 9 g sugars (NO DV defined) 105 mg sodium (4% DV) per serving (4 servings per pack). Your favorite chocolate brands in the perfect size snack. With Dove Brand milk chocolate drizzle with M&M's brand Minis milk chocolate candies with Snickers Brand peanuts.
Made with real milk chocolate, 100 calories.
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