I don't know... That bird reminds me of too many other incompetent fictional birds. Especially the klutzy Launchpad McQuack. I'm not feeling in good hands--or wings--here.
"Fun to play with, not to eat!" "Impossible to eat!" And why did the last commercial change the refrain to "impossible to BEAT"...?
Yeah, right, impossible to eat. How many of these imitation foodstuffs were forcefed or enticingly offered to unsuspecting younger siblings who scarfed them down?
This ad for Blatz beer has been circulating around the internet for some time. Often people who post these vintage ads never provide a source for them, so it's hard to know if they're real or fake. But in the case of this Blatz ad, I know it's real because I found the following discussion of it in the Church School Journal, 1917. Apparently it was controversial even in the early 20th century:
The whiskey men well know the value of childhood for the formation of permanent habits. Dr. C.T. Wilson says that the advertising of the liquor people has these aims: to secure the use of liquor in homes; to encourage drinking by women; to promote drinking by children; and to put the appetite for drink into unborn children by inducing expectant mothers to drink beer. He showed to a congressional committee an advertisement which read: "How mother and baby picked up: A case of good beer in your home means much to the young mother, and obviously baby partakes in the benefits"; also an advertisement recommending whiskey for delicate undeveloped children; also the picture of a nursing bottle filled with whiskey and taken from a small boy; also a picture of sixteen different hollow toys taken from school children. These hollow toys were all filled with sweet wine or whiskey, and had been given out by drink dealers.
Category: Advertising, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia, Twentieth Century