Mainans phase, the podcast that keeps saying it doesn't want to talk about poopit is ritly. olestra burst onto the market sometime in the mid nineties right in the middle of my fat kid adolescence. It was discovered by proctor and gamble in 19 68. They were working on baby foods that would actually absorb more calories. And they tested it, not on babies, because that's superinethical, but, i think, on rats or something.