True storey....
That last major food company I worked for owns the rights to "Pink Elephant" popcorn if you remember that stuff. Well, the CEO got the bright idea he wanted to bring back the original recipie, but sub in modern/ cheaper equivalent ingredients (yeh, I know

)....so we haul in the big carmilzer, the lab mixes up a batch of this new wonder-coating for popcorn, we fire it up and toss everything in...
What we ended up with was a nice bright pink hard candy shell on the popcorn (which took an air-hammer to get off the machine once set up), and I admit, it was tasty---and as the tech guys running the equipment, we got 1st dibs on the sampling......yeh, it was fun-and-games for about 10 minutes.
Ever heard the phrase "like sheet thru a goose"?....this stuff has ex-lax beat HANDS DOWN....and now ya have one department manager (me) trying to pull rank and jump in front of the line of 7 for the one available bathroom ahead of everybody else peeing out thier butt.....and this stuff dont STOP, we made the batch at about 10am and by 5:30 everyody was wondering if they could make the drive home without squatting at the side of the road...
SSoooo,....what we (well, I) did ???....next day gave a big bowl of the stuff to the front desk girls who were always screwing up orders and causing us no end to grief

Yeh, the plan to market that stuff got cancelled pretty quick.....
Remind me to tell you guys one day about when he decided Motts Clammmato rimmer salt (owns those rights here) would make a good flavoring on kettle-cooked potato chips.