[Sca-cooks] Re: 50's vs '70s

Huette von Ahrens ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 30 09:53:25 PDT 2004


--- Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:

> >> And for some food trivia, name these 1970's
> food
> >> commercials:
> >>
> >> 2) "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles."
> >
> >
> > ? 
> 
> California Prunes.  One of the award-winning ad
> campaigns by 
> comedian/adman Stan Freberg.

True, but it is Sunsweet Prunes.
> 
> >> 5) "Sorry, Charlie!"
> >
> >
> > Chicken-of-the-Sea tuna 
> 
> I tended to think of this as a 60's ad
> campaign.  Voiced by Herschel 
> Bernardi.

Not according to the website I found it on.
And Sorry, Charlie is from Star-Kist tuna.

"Ask any mermaid you happen to see
What's the best tuna ... Chicken of the Sea."

That may be from the '60s.

> 
> >
> >
> >> 6) "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature"
> >
> >
> > Margarine... Parkay?
> 
> Chiffon.

Wrong.  Parkay.

Huette

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