Spoiled Sauce Turns Stomachs at Farm Progress
Posted: September 2, 2010
Kansas City is known for BBQ, but a small company in Wall Lake, Iowa called Cookies, has been growing a good crop of BBQ sauce fans across the Midwest. Unfortunately, a poor marketing move against another hot commodity in Iowa, corn, has some at the Farm Progress looking for other condiments. Cookies Sauces, found at the Farm Progress and other ag shows in Iowa carries BBQ sauces, condiments and even supplies golf carts, and is now feeding into the anti-high fructose corn syrup hype, promoting a signature barbeque sauce as HFCS free. Highly questionable science aside, this is a poor marketing decision on their part.
Cookies Sauces operates out of Wall Lake, Iowa, a small town only an hour and a half from Boone, the site of the 2010 Farm Progress Show. This company is part of the agricultural community, a state where production agriculture and ag-related industries account for $72.1 billion including agri-food industries, food processing and the manufacturer of farm machinery, chemicals and fertilizer.
Cookies Sauce owner Speed Herrig has friends in the Ag industry. The Iowa Corn Growers Association and the National Corn Growers Association are disappointed to see another uneducated spilt happening in the ag industry.
If you think the sauce leaves a sour taste in your mouth, you can contact Cookies Sauces through Facebook.
RJ Said,
September 3, 2010 @ 6:46 pm
Cut the man some slack. The crazies want to buy a product without the corn syrup and he sees am opportunity to make money. Good for him!