Shoving Sugar Down Your Piehole
If good looks was a minute/ You know that you could've been an hour- Smokey Robinson, 'The Way You Do The Things You Do'
America is in love with cereal. Everybody ate it at some point in their life. Did you know that our modern cereal began as an attempt to keep the institutionalized more balanced, during the Victorian era? That’s a fact. That’s where Dr. Kellogg and his mates all got their start. But when they stopped trying to correct our neuroses, they hit the jackpot. Start with products so sugary that kids would become addicted. Add cartoon mascots in advertisements. Bingo! Just wait oh, eighty or so years and take a look at the generation of morbidly obese Americans they helped to stuff.
First off, a film ad for Rice Krispies from 1939.
Next, Alpha-Bits in ’50s with a hilarious leg-humping dog.
The best one here, for Country Corn Flakes. And we wonder why the boomers all ended up doing hard drugs?
The one that ruined my life. The Mikey commercials. I still can’t stomach Life.
And finally, Andre The Giant. Stop that rhyming, I mean it!
One of the constant debates in our household growing up was what kind of ’special cereal’ (i.e. sugary, no redeeming value) we would get to eat on weekends. Ads like these often times were the deciding factor. Oh, how I hate advertising.
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