What is Dehydrated Water?
Well, dehydrated water is actually not a hoax, although the website Museum of Hoaxes has an article about them (which acknowledges the joke). These cans of dehydrated water are actually empty tin cans made by a real food company, Bernard Food Industries, who began making the cans in 1964.
The cans were never meant to fool anyone. They were made as a novelty or gag item, something to be displayed at stores to make people laugh, get them talking, etc.
According to the Flickr user that I borrowed the image used on this page from (see image credit below picture), these cans of water were even trademarked.
The comedian Stephen Wright may or may not have been familiar with these cans when he joked "I bought some dehydrated water but I didn't know what to mix it with." If he had read the label, he would have known, of course, to add water…duh
Well, dehydrated water is actually not a hoax, although the website Museum of Hoaxes has an article about them (which acknowledges the joke). These cans of dehydrated water are actually empty tin cans made by a real food company, Bernard Food Industries, who began making the cans in 1964.
The cans were never meant to fool anyone. They were made as a novelty or gag item, something to be displayed at stores to make people laugh, get them talking, etc.
According to the Flickr user that I borrowed the image used on this page from (see image credit below picture), these cans of water were even trademarked.
The comedian Stephen Wright may or may not have been familiar with these cans when he joked "I bought some dehydrated water but I didn't know what to mix it with." If he had read the label, he would have known, of course, to add water…duh