{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Remembering how I was introduced to both Kudos bars and Jergens shampoo like a year before market in the early 90s on...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/650957865056714752/", "html": "<p>Remembering how I was introduced to both Kudos bars and Jergens shampoo like a year before market in the early 90s on airlines</p><p>Passengers on tourist routes were still a high-openness elite market segment that soon after deregulation just as frequent flyer programs and business class were taking off (::rimshot::)</p><p>(Narratives of multi-state &ldquo;road trip&rdquo; <i>driving</i> to destinations were more common)</p><p>Right after the deregulation we had flown on <a href=\"https://href.li/?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Express_Airlines_(1980s)\" target=\"_blank\">People Express</a>, which was so low-budget you had to bring your own meal</p><p>(I was also given Breathe-Rite nasal strips with my free seat cushion at Super Bowl XXX, Steelers/Cowboys in Tempe, Arizona outside Phoenix. That pocket also had our seat-specific 2-sided colored cards to hold out and flip for the halftime show climax)</p>"}