Hot Sauce Bottle, Y2K Millennium Meltdown R-U-Ready?
date: label: Date made
content: 1990-1999
name: label: recipient
content: Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
label: maker
content: Figueroa Brothers, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: As the "Millennium Bug" gained media attention, some businesses used the hype to market special millennium foods. From cars to breakfast cereal, companies like the Figueroa Brothers, Inc., cashed in on the Y2K name. This bottle once contained "Y2K Millennium Meltdown R-U-Ready?" hot sauce, a spicy concoction that included hot peppers.
label: Description
content: The Guardian Life Insurance Company's Y2K Project Team spent over three years working to make their company Y2K compliant. This meant many late nights working and thus many visits to the local restaurants. This bottle of hot sauce was given to the team by the owner of the restaurant most frequented by them.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: referenced
content: Y2K
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Food
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Y2K
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.3020.08
label: nonaccession number
content: 2004.3020
label: catalog number
content: 2004.3020.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green (label color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (label color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (label color)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 4.6 cm; 6 11/16 in x 1 13/16 in