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<text id=90TT2455>
<title>
Sep. 17, 1990: Business Notes:The Youth Market
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Sep. 17, 1990 The Rotting Of The Big Apple
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 66
Business Notes
THE YOUTH MARKET
Wow, That's Disgusting!
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<p> Why do children take delight in things that grownups find
gross? While most adults just sit and ponder this question, a
few entrepreneurs cannily exploit it. Just in time for the
back-to-school season, for example, is Spit-Wads, a synthetic
"tossing dough." The sticky substance, thrown by hand rather
than propelled through a straw, was invented by oil-refinery
worker Ted Skup. "We got the idea at lunchtime. We were talking
about the Pet Rock and things we could sell about $20 million
worth of, and it just popped into my head." Skup and a partner
started IQCO Inc., which sells packs of Spit-Wads for $1.29.
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<p> Even more gross is Barfo, a gelatinous goo manufactured by
Topps, the bubble-gum company. The fruit-flavored candy is
packed in squeezable plastic figures that extrude the substance
through their mouths. Says a seven-year-old who savors the
stuff: "When I think about it, it's disgusting." That alone
should guarantee boffo sales for Barfo.
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