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Reddi Wip is the answer

Reddi Wip is the answer

What was the question again?

Dec 16, 2021
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We went to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving, and contributed the pumpkin pie. I’m not sure why, but as I passed the Reddi-Wip in the dairy case at a King Soopers in Denver, I reached for the “extra creamy.” It changed my life!

And raised important questions.

  1. Are there really two ds in “reddi,” no h in “wip”? Yes! It has been that way since the product was introduced in 1948. I’m as shocked as anyone.

  1. What about the hyphen in Reddi-wip? Big controversy here. There’s no hyphen on the front label, but it does appear on the top of the can, and on the website. Which is it? I don’t know!

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