WARNING: Long and boring. Do not read unless you are WES or Mr MB or need something to fall asleep.
Once again I'm no expert within the supplement field, so maybe some of you old time GetBiggers can pitch in and make this a supplemental historical moment, so that some of these younger GetBiggers can get e-du-ma-ka-ted or simply a reason to rant and rave.
Hoffman and Weider and Gypsy Boots and Rheo H. Blair and Mallard Williamson and Dr. Scott Connelly who came on the scene much later (so I'm sure all worthy GetBiggers can name his product line)
They all come to mind as the supplement pioneers and semi pioneers at present.
There may have been more .... but I never did meet the others that I can recall, but I did have the opportunity to meet or be associated with each of the above at one time or another.
And each were somewhat and/or very successful even though their product/products were initially only of interest to a very small handful of people ... like maybe WES and possibly even MR. MB and maybe two or three others on this board.
Wheat Germ Oil was big back then as well as Braggs's Apple Cider Vinegar. But almost no one was aware of the nutritional value of bee pollen and honey except for some heavy lifters or die-hard hippies.
The 'worsted' supplement of all was the Liver Protein powder (Hoffman's?) which tasted like 6 week old sox after a 100 mile trek in a canopied jungle. (Trust me. I do know jungles well!)
But the most unique supplement was Gypsy Boots' Protein Wafers packaged somewhat similar to Life Savers. You'd put them in your pocket and have one or two egvery hour, but they tasted like alfalfa and made you fart like a race horse.
I was a Weider supplement fan and while overseas in some high canopied jungle I was losing lots of bodywt until I got back to camp and ordered Weider's liquid gain weight stuff that had the strong taste of Geritol.
And after bottle or two I continued to lose a lot of weight in that leach infested jungle and never ordered it again.
And then, a few years later when I became somewhat civilized once again..... I helped a friend at MLO which I'm sure 99% of you GetBiggers never heard of before .... nor the name of the founder and business owner. (Hint .... His name is posted above.)
All very boring shit until we met Mike Dayton who used to hang himself by the neck until alive.
And the story continues down through the years until the present time. I think I've met all the important ones in this supplement business .... the same guys whom you all seem to despise so much because the stuff they sell that make them rich and open targets for GetBiggers and others with and outside of this bodybuilding game.
Each of them took the risk of offering a somewhat questionable (Yea! Even back then.) in quart sized, round, cardboard containers with a tin cap that kept the contents fresh.
But once I tried most of them, I once again returned to cottage cheese and yogurt and bee pollen which only came in round glass containers back then.
Things supplement business has definitely changed but the skepticisn and mistrust and a bit of hatred still remain the same as it was many years ago.
GetBiggers are great at ensuring that old traditions never.
They bring the feelings of those good old days back to life.
