Can of Dehydrated Water
Status: Joke product
Dehydrated water is an old joke, but I've never actually seen a can of the stuff. Here one is, posted on Flickr by David Reeves. His caption reads, "Spotted on the chemical storage shelf in an adjacent laboratory." The strange thing is that Bernard Food Industries, the company listed as the maker of this product, is a real company. Why were they manufacturing this stuff? I assume it was a joke.
Update: Looks like these cans must have been a gag product that Bernard Foods produced at some time, because someone is selling one on eBay. Perhaps I'll bid on it.
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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I was a science teacher at Whitman Hanson Regional High School and one Christmas our department head gave us one of these cans as a gag gift. I still display it proudly on my hutch cabinet in the kitchen and it never fails to get a chuckle from friends and family.
Posted by James Bonaparte in Brockton Massachusetts on Fri Aug 15, 2008 at 03:53 AM
my can appears to be white. other can seen on internet appear yellow. has mine faded?
Posted by Betty in Horizon City, TX on Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 12:15 PM
The can fades from White to Yellow not Yellow to White. I am surprised you never realized that. When something fades it usually become a residue color. White is not a residue color. With that in mind did you think that the dirt in your house with the yellow color represented that the house was clean. If that was the case then you really need to re-evaluate your life.
Posted by Bill Curtain in Crioux Bay Lake, LA on Mon Oct 13, 2008 at 07:59 AM
Betty, not being involved with the company that sells the "product" I can only speculate as to differing colors. First of all age may have something to do with color because the company changed the label after a few years. This is a common practice when a new look might be desirable to attract attention. Second is that as the label paper aged it naturally "yellowed" which is also common, and just as likely. It is a shame that someone used this fun-forum to flame you over your use of the word 'fade'. The word fade is often perceived as a gradual change, regardless of beginning or end appearance. Bill? 
Posted by Mike in Pittsburgh on Mon Oct 13, 2008 at 08:36 AM
Bernard did indeed make them as an advertising gimmick. I remember seeing them in their store displays, and even had one for a while.
I guess from the response to the email they are still in the dehydrated food business? At the time (1950s and 1960s) their dehydrated products were ok, but you really did not want to use them for extended trips. A number of mountaineering expeditions did so, though, since there were few other choices. One summer when in college, I worked for the company that sponsored my scholarship, Food Machinery and Chemical. They were just developing freeze-dry products at the time (for the military and NASA). They would give some samples to some of us who they knew did a fair amount of backpacking with the request "if you can figure out how to reconstitute this stuff, be sure to tell us."
Posted by OGBO in SFBay Area on Mon Oct 20, 2008 at 02:51 PM
I guess from the response to the email they are still in the dehydrated food business? At the time (1950s and 1960s) their dehydrated products were ok, but you really did not want to use them for extended trips. A number of mountaineering expeditions did so, though, since there were few other choices. One summer when in college, I worked for the company that sponsored my scholarship, Food Machinery and Chemical. They were just developing freeze-dry products at the time (for the military and NASA). They would give some samples to some of us who they knew did a fair amount of backpacking with the request "if you can figure out how to reconstitute this stuff, be sure to tell us."
I have a can of that. They were given away at food trade shows as a joke in the 60's
Posted by Chris on Mon May 11, 2009 at 01:51 PM
Its funny, on their website it says:
Contains: No artifical flavors
No Artifical Colors
No Preservatives
No Nothing
Posted by Mike in Canada on Tue Jul 07, 2009 at 02:47 PM
Contains: No artifical flavors
No Artifical Colors
No Preservatives
No Nothing
No, I don't think it's a joke. They manufacture it on Florida, US. If you are great at manufacturing too, you can join Freelancer.com to get more projects. Use this code to get more advantages BUILDIT4ME.
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Posted by Nascha in Kentucky on Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 03:22 PM
I am from Finland and also now teach English, give true I wrote the following sentence: "Notwithstanding the back, any outputs that are attacked to my gasoline, or to the vehicles of my property, or to the motion of my court, or to the deaths of my territory of my information, liberal to the subject none in no race shall post in safe the greater of time or five tax of all custodians high-risk to this member in a hidden guaranty butter, on a nonphysical firm."
Thank you very much 8). Nascha.
The company that makes this can have created a webpage for the product. Check it out. Nutritional facts are included.
Posted by tom on Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 01:50 AM
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