{"id":12528,"date":"2026-04-01T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=12528"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:51:30","slug":"the-best-april-fools-day-pranks-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=12528","title":{"rendered":"The Best April Fools\u2019 Day Pranks of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"border-color:#000000;border-width:3px;border-top-left-radius:30px;border-top-right-radius:30px;border-bottom-left-radius:30px;border-bottom-right-radius:30px\" class=\"wp-block-list is-style-default has-border-color has-bg-shade-background-color has-background has-small-font-size\">\n<li>April Fools\u2019 Day is here once again, and several brands have come up with fake products to celebrate the prankster holiday.<\/li>\n<li>This year\u2019s crop of brand pranks includes butt humor, high-protein, AI-slop, stinky fruit, spicy coffee creamer, and edible food delivery bags, among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>April 1st is here at long last, and boy howdy, we could all use a laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, April Fools\u2019 Day gives everyone a chance to slow down and indulge in some grade-A level Dad jokes, or, at least in the brand world, make you do a double-take and wonder if a gag product is real (because sometimes, they really,\u00a0<em>really<\/em>\u00a0are).<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/the-best-april-fools-day-pranks-of-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Fools\u2019 Day is here once again, and several brands have come up with fake products to celebrate the prankster holiday. This year\u2019s crop of brand pranks includes butt humor, high-protein, AI-slop, stinky fruit, spicy coffee creamer, and edible food delivery bags, among others. April 1st is here at long last, and boy howdy, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[4707,4708,4709,4710,4711,2951,718,4712,4713,1871,4714,4715,2523,60,3594,968,1052,3148,4716],"class_list":["post-12528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-ai-slop","tag-brand-pranks","tag-califia-farms","tag-consumer-culture","tag-creative-branding","tag-dieline","tag-dude-wipes","tag-fake-products","tag-fishwife","tag-food-trends","tag-gemini-said-april-fools-day","tag-glossier","tag-graphic-design","tag-heinz","tag-marketing-trends","tag-olipop","tag-packaging-design","tag-social-media-marketing","tag-welchs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}