Best Old TV Commercials » Snacks

Snack – Fruit Stripe Gum

Best Old TV Commercials — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:29:11 +0000

Fruit stripe gum, in 5 fruit flavors and colors! Cherry stripe, lemon stripe, orange stripe, mixed fruit and lime stripe.

We are warned that ghosts and goblins are coming to meet our parents and are quelled by Beech Nut Fruit Stripe Gum!

Pop Tarts – Milton the Toaster

Best Old TV Commercials — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:18:50 +0000

What I always found fascinating about Pop Tarts is how they’re engineered especially to fit right into a toaster. Even the name implies that’s where you cook it. Milton the Toaster even implies this in the commercial that his sole purpose for existence is the heating of these square non-perishable pastries. He’s a loyal but worrisome fellow with fears of rejection that he shares with our young friend who is about to go to her first sleepover. She should bring Milton with her.

Cracker Jacks – That’s What You Get in Cracker Jack

Best Old TV Commercials — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:08:44 +0000

In a world fearful of all things harmful to children, seeing kids interacting without parents or with strangers isn’t so common. But not so in the 1960’s, where kids roamed freely, traded toys for candy, and served cracker jacks to their siblings.

Jello Commercials – Chinese Baby Love Jerro Dessert

Best Old TV Commercials — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:48:45 +0000

Herro, I would like to tell you about fancy new Jerro Dessert. Chinese baby cannot eat glape jerro dessert with chopstick. Chinese mudder bling baby spoon for jerro dessert. Chinese baby rickey, he velly happy.

This commercial could be interpretted as racial stereotyping, but I think the best approach is to just grin at Madison Avenue’s nievity of cultural sensitivity back in the 1960’s.

Fritos Corn Chips – The Frito Bandito

Best Old TV Commercials — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:20:14 +0000

Another advertisement from the 1960’s created by naive Madison Avenue execs who haven’t yet had to sit through a course on Cultural Sensitivity, this classic advertising campaign was eventually ended in part due to pressure from the Latino community and the portrayal of a sombrero-wearing Mexican charactature who steals Frito corn chips.

Fritos Corn Chips – Frito Bandito Returns

Best Old TV Commercials — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:23:44 +0000

The Frito Bandito is back – with a kindler, softer approach to his earlier portrayals of stealing Frito Corn Chips, this time he’s got free gift for kids – an eraser, of himself, that will erase anything you draw. Wow! Neat-o!

The Frito Bandito didn’t last much longer than this – the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee pressured Fritos to change the image of the Frito Bandito and Fritos eventually dropped the character in 1971.