Three Silicon Prairie cities are the subjects of a couple April Fools’ Day jokes today. First, Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo., the cities Google chose in 2011 to be the first to receive its coveted gigabit internet speed later this year, were announced as the launch pad of the internet giant’s first nutrition bar.
“As we started thinking about fiber,” Kevin Lo, General Manager of Google Access, wrote on the Google Fiber blog, “we realized that there hadn’t been real innovation in the fiber world in a very long time.”
“Today, after extensive testing, we’re launching Google Fiber, a nutritional bar with a smarter fiber we’ve coded as ‘Fiberlicious.’ ”
The Google Fiber blog post also features a video (below) and a photo of the two Kansas City mayors (above) showing off the new Google product. Full details of the new nutrition bar are provided at google.com/fiber.
This is the second time in three years that a city in Kansas has been a part of Google’s April Fools’ Day antics. In 2010, in reaction to the bold statement made by the mayor of Topeka, Kan. who temporarily changed his city’s name to “Google” to support its campaign to land the Google Fiber project, Google announced it would be changing its name to “Topeka.”
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