In Brief: Flintstones Vitamins
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Flintstones Vitamins: Bayer announces Oct. 19 that it will "rectify" a 25 year-old omission when it includes Betty Rubble among its Flintstones vitamins. The company said it received over 17,000 phone calls on a toll-free number in a special "Vote for Betty" promotion in select cities. The company said the character was originally scratched as a Flintstones vitamin because the mold designers gave Betty "an ultra-thin waist that kept breaking during production." The new Betty vitamin will come in five flavors -- orange, grape, raspberry, strawberry and peach/apricot...
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