New products are often either a wildly successful hit or an unfortunate miss. Some product releases are so weird that they make you wonder what the people behind them were thinking when they pitched the idea in the first place. If you want to see what we mean, we’ve gathered examples of such products from past decades that were a huge miss, and it’s not hard to see why. Check it out and see if you miss any of these products.
#1: Beef Lasagna by Colgate
You probably know the brand Colgate for its famous toothpaste, but back in 1982, it tried to enter the food market! Needless to say, Colgate’s beef lasagna was not a success. Somehow, nobody was interested in purchasing food with a strong connotation of minty-fresh toothpaste—baffling, right?
Colgate failed to sell frozen food, and its toothpaste sales dropped quite a bit after the beef lasagna was released! After that, Colgate stuck to what it’s best known for: dental hygiene products. In hindsight, it’s hard to imagine why anyone thought Colgate’s beef lasagna would be a success.