With the surge in popularity of France's shit in 1954, and Japan's main exports of rice and schoolgirl panties, the American government developed Naughty Bits to keep up with the Joneses. Given the task of fabricating the new recipe, Trent Schiff of Amherst, Afghanistan tried many different varieties of dried cat, then completely changing his mind and starting from scratch. In the early 1970s, the British comedy troupe known publicly as Monty Python's Flying Circus (the CIA secretly referred to the group as Operation John Thomas) failed to improve on the initial product during episode 22.