Found on self at Walmart - New ~ Original Kingsford

Man for the cost of gas I would have just bought 2 bags right then. I wonder if they are just touting Being the original manufacturer of briquetts or in fact the old style/compisition.
Did you know Kingsford charcoal was a biproduct of manufacturing process at Ford Motor company?


And has been since the 1920s, when Henry Ford learned of a process for turning wood scraps from the production of Model T's into charcoal briquets. He built a charcoal plant, and the rest is history.
The Kingsford Company was formed when E.G. Kingsford, a relative of Ford's, brokered the site selection for Ford's new charcoal manufacturing plant. The company, originally called Ford Charcoal, was renamed Kingsford® Charcoal in his honor.
Today, the Kingsford Products Company remains the leading manufacturer of charcoal in the U.S. More than 1 million tons of wood scraps are converted into quality charcoal briquets every year.
Barbequing with charcoal has become immensely popular since Ford's time, and even today, more people prefer the taste of charcoal-grilled food to gas. *
Bring some of that deliciously smoky flavor home today and taste for yourself how superior charcoal-grilled foods can be. Kingsford products are available nationwide at grocery stores, mass retailers, drugstores, warehouse clubs and home centers.
*In a blind taste test sponsored by the Kingsford Company, 2 to 1 participants preferred the taste of charcoal-grilled food to gas. The research was conducted with 796 men and women ages 18-54 in Sacramento, Dallas, Tampa and Chicago in June 2000.

Participants were asked to compare chicken, steak or hamburgers cooked over Kingsford Charcoal to those same foods cooked over gas. Across all meat types, most people liked charcoal-grilled foods better. Tasters commented that meat grilled over charcoal “has a real barbecue flavor,” “has a smoky flavor” and “tastes like it was grilled over a real wood fire.”

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ITs the new kingsford in a retro bag. I bought a few bags last time i was in wally world. It was on pallets where they normally keep the kingsford. Remember K side up facing north is the proper way to get a good clean burn and no ash.

Retro K! Gotta love the marketing. How much was it?
Keep yer K's up and yer grooves down!

The Spanish on the bag was a tip off!!

Nope no mention of grooves but they are there, on every briquette in the bag.
Also look at the text at the top of the bag same as the fire groove one. "Ready Faster. Burns Longer"

Ive gone to grab a bag off the shelf and ripped the top open lol.. charcoal everywhere. I grab another bag and move on lol.

new kingsford sucks
burns too fast

This is definately the new crappy kingsford with the grooves in a different bag. Dont waste your time taking a trip to WalMart to pick it up, unless you need charcoal and like Kingsford. There is no hope of the old stuff coming back. The 18lb bag should of thrown it off too. Stupid grooves, longer and hotter my ass. Just saves them 2 lbs a bag!

Those sunzabeeches at wally-world tricked me too! About 3 weeks ago I saw those bags and I almost cried tears of joy! I took 4 bags home only to find they were the new stuff!

smokincracker said:

new kingsford sucks
burns too fast

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That's how they get ya.

2 nights ago I got almost 14 hours out of a full ring of the new stuff in my WSM... Is the new stuff really that much worse? I just "restarted" using charcoal after a 6 year trip to the interplanetary school of gas is better. NOT.

Sometimes we all lose our minds a little.

Personally, I like the new K. I've used it in my drums at 2 comps recently. In the drum that I'm using for my brisket, I'm loading about 15# and it's burning long enough that I do my chicken in the same drum after pulling and wrapping the brisket the next day. That's a total of about 18 hours and there's still plenty of heat after that. Granted there's a bit of ash, but I clean my smokers after every cook anyway so buildup is not an issue for me.

This is the stuff Big Brother Smoke was talking about the other week. I saw it myself last wknd when I was grabbing more RO and figured it was a scam. Thanks for putting up the photo of the bag, it wasnt on Kingsfords site last time I checked.

Hook_Line_and_Sinker said:

And beyond all the bad blood they are causing, they are actually bringing to the market a sense that their new stuff isn't up to par compared to the "original"

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Exactly, which has led me to the fact that when my Rancher stash is gone I will switch to something other than K. Probably Sams choice seeing as how we dont have much else around here to pick from and it is made by R.O.