How many of you out there have had King Po-T-Rik Molasses growing up? Great on pancakes, waffles, hot dogs, baked beans, you name it, King Po-T-Rik molasses was the greatest.
If you are, or have been searching the WEB looking for King Po-T-Rik Molasses sadly you will not be able to find it or you will find online shops that used to carry it but show it is out of stock and some sites will have messages asking to you write in to the company that is responsible for King Po-T-Rik products. Here is a link to one such site http://meatfarminc.com/kingpo-t-rikmolassesvaluepack1.aspx that you would run across. Another site provides a history of the original company that made the molasses as well as the timeline of the company being purchased, where it moved to, and who the current owner is. The gentleman that wrote the article is a distributor for Carriage House products http://www.southernreader.com/SouthRead10.9.html and his name is Jerry Barr who I believe is the owner of Barr None Distribution. Another place to look to see who else is interested in bringing back the best Molasses ever know is a Facebook page, so if you are a member of Facebook you can type into the search bar "King Potrik Syrup" and you will be able to see other people that are interested.
Myself, I have written, emailed, and contacted both Ralcorp and Carriage House and both were nice enough to give me back some responses. The plain and simple is both companies stated that if they got enough requests they would possibly consider bringing back the product to market. However, to be truthful it would have to be a tremendous response, not just a couple of 1000 requests or so. Mainly, as told to me they stopped making the molasses because there were not enough sales and thus they would need a certain amount of responses that they would feel would be profitable. On that note I then asked them if they would be interested in selling the recipe and the rights to the molasses whereby maybe a smaller company could make the molasses and be profitable where the larger corporations could not be as profitable because of overheads. To that question I never did receive a response and gave up trying after 3 attempts to get that answer I was looking for.
SO NOW TO THE POINT!!
As stated in the above, there are many, many hits on the WEB for people looking for King Po-T-Rik Molasses! Many of the sites asking for people to write into Carriage House and Ralcorp to ask, beg, plead, for them to bring back their molasses! But from what I have seen, there are not many responses being generated or if they are being generated there is no one location where all of the people that are interested in getting King Po-T-Rik Molasses back on the market is tallied to show a total overall interest and response, so it makes it hard for each individual to see if their feedback, or even writing a letter to these companies will even make a dent let alone the difference that would be needed! Along with that, many of the interested people do not have time to write letters and follow up to see what happens with the letter or even follow up to try and get a response and thus the choose not to respond at all.
WHAT THIS BLOG IS ABOUT?
The purpose of this site is to have one place, one area, where people can respond in regards to getting a single voice that can be counted and identified at some time when there are responses of measure that can be of impact. Once we start getting "likes", responses, acknowledgements on this sites via Posts, links to other blogs, pages, etc. we can then provide this blog link to the necessary people at both Ralcorp and Carriage House so they can get a good idea as to what it would mean to them to bring back King Po-T-Rik Molasses!!!
So if you have come here because of the recognition of brand, the memories of using the molasses for baking, cooking, or as a condiment with pancakes, waffles, and other foods, please do your best to post to this site, provide a link to others that you know that would like to see the molasses being produced again, add links to your Facebook pages, twitter the link in a message, whatever it takes to build the responses on this site so that we can have present a large single voice to be heard and tracked and presented back to Ralcorp and Carriage House in hopes they will consider making and distributing King Po-T-Rik Molasses again.
If you have made it this far through this message then it shows you are really interested in making this happen and I appreciate the fact as will many others (I hope) that you are interested in getting the word out!
Thanks and Regards,
The Corporate Mud Room
