A fact from Metrecal appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that C. Joseph Genster of Mead Johnson developed Metrecal in 1959 as part of a weight loss craze that had dieters subsist on nothing other than the 900 calories offered by drinking four cans a day?
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"Metrecal for Lunch Bunch" was a television advertising campaign for this product during the mid 1960s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.72.159.156 (talk) 03:25, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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