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Tuna Canner Sets Jessica Simpson Straight
« on: Oct 22nd, 2003, 9:03am » |
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Tuna Canner Sets Jessica Simpson Straight
(Tuesday, October 21 11:00 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The quality of information usually improves the closer you get to its original source. It's a lesson pop star Jessica Simpson now understands.
Simpson finally received the full answer to the chicken-or-tuna question she famously posed in the premiere episode of MTV's "Newlyweds" when she visited executives of Chicken of the Sea Monday (Oct. 20). Executives at the San Diego-based company gave her the scoop.
"We wanted to bring her down and make sure she understood the difference, and told her the story of how the brand name originated," Don George, senior vice president of marketing for Chicken of the Sea, tells the AP. George also says he' be interested in having Simpson be a spokeswoman for the product.
The company was the first to can "light" tuna, in 1914, and wanted consumers to know that the fish had a less fishy taste (might this be the origin of "tastes like chicken" as well?). So it started marketing the brand as Chicken of the Sea.
Simpson understands the ridicule she's endured from her chicken/tuna gaffe and others on "Newlyweds," such as saying "I don't eat buffalo" when offered a buffalo wing. She tries not to let it affect her.
"I think it's fun," she says. "I've made a mess up on national television, and everyone has been giving me a hard time about it, but it's better just to sit back and laugh at yourself."
"I do have my ditzy moments."
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