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Um, Burt’s Bees has teamed up with Hidden Valley Ranch to sell a 4-pack of lip balm with salad & salad dressing flavors: ranch dressing, buffalo sauce, celery, and carrot. Next year: Hidden Valley Beeswax Dressing?

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Tyler Zeruk

No.

Chris Frampton

Well, Burt's Bees is owned by Clorox which owns Hidden Valley.

Tyler Zeruk

It’s turtles all the way down

Jason KottkeMOD

Ah, so it was corporate synergy all along. (This is what was so refreshing about Barbenheimer β€” it was a collab imposed on these massive companies by their customers and not the other way around. It felt genuine because it was.)

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