Tibbott: Tofurky was one of the first frozen products sold online
Seth Tibbott · Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott (2019) · Nov 29, 2021 · at 36:12
Seth Tibbott discusses selling hundreds of Tofurky roasts online in 1996 on How I Built This.
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“You know that Tofurky was one of the first frozen products ever to be sold on the internet.”
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