It looks like Arctic Roll is not the only retro food item making a comeback in Singapore’s supermarkets.
Folks who grew up in the’ 90s would remember Valley Chef Chicken Franks, the popular American-made hotdog brand with the iconic packaging featuring a chef giving an ‘OK’ sign. The frozen hotdogs disappeared from retail freezers in 2022, and its local social media page stopped updating in December that year.
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Manufacturer went bankrupt
A possible explanation for the disappearance is that Valley Chef’s manufacturer, fourth generation-owned Zacky Farms, filed for bankruptcy in 2018 as it owed US$50mil to $100mil (S$65.5mil to $131mil) to creditors. It also announced that it was closing down, farming news portal Feedstuffs reported.
The following year, American poultry company Foster Farms succeeded in its US$31mil bid to acquire 19 California poultry farms from Zacky Farms.