Favorite food slogans and ads

Pan · October 22, 2003

My favorite food slogans are "Fink means good bread" and "With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good." I don't love Smuckers, though I used to have their "Simply Fruit" or whatever, and their preserves are generally fairly decent for a mass-marketed commercial food product, I guess. But I used to eat Fink bread when I went to Cathedral School in 3-4 and 7 grade, and at the time, I thought their bread was actually pretty good - far better than Wonder and such-like - and I particularly liked their raisin bread at the time.

My favorite food ads were:

(1) The TV ad for Hebrew National hotdogs that ran in the New York market during the 70s and 80s, I think ("Uncle Sam says we can use fillers, but we don't. [Man in Uncle Sam outfit frowns.] Uncle Sam says we can use meat by-products, but we can't. [Frowns again.] We're kosher and answer to a higher authority. [Footage of the sky with clouds."]

(2) The posters that used to be all over the subways and buses in New York in the early 80s that showed people of all sorts of ethnicities (Native American, African-American, Hispanic, Asian) with the legend "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's" and a picture of Levy's kosher rye bread.

Why aren't ads like those run anymore? Is the influence of Jewish culture decreasing in the New York area as more non-Jews immigrate here? I wonder. If Katz's ever goes out of business, I'll know that traditional Jewish food is really dead here. But anyway, what are your favorite food slogans and ads?

hillbill · October 22, 2003

My favorite food slogans are "Fink means good bread" and "With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good."

Yes and yes! Didn't Goodman's also have a comparably catchy slogan? I, er, resemble the name Goodman's so I should know (just googled and came up blank.)

(1) The TV ad for Hebrew National hotdogs that ran in the New York market during the 70s and 80s, I think ("Uncle Sam says we can use fillers, but we don't. [Man in Uncle Sam outfit frowns.] Uncle Sam says we can use meat by-products, but we can't. [Frowns again.] We're kosher and answer to a higher authority. [Footage of the sky with clouds."]

I'm pretty sure they're still (or again) running variations on "higher authority."

Higher Authority

I learned something new!

(2) The posters that used to be all over the subways and buses in New York in the early 80s that showed people of all sorts of ethnicities (Native American, African-American, Hispanic, Asian) with the legend "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's" and a picture of Levy's kosher rye bread.

You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's

But anyway, what are your favorite food slogans and ads?

I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener.,....

Edited October 22, 2003 by hillbill (log)

hillbill · October 22, 2003

Plop plop fizz fizz,

oh what a relief it is

Two is twice as many as one

Edited October 22, 2003 by hillbill (log)

tryska · October 22, 2003

my baloney has a first name......

or

thank you easter bunny! bock bock!

Mabelline · October 22, 2003

I think my favorite one is "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature," with a pissed-off goddess scattering all the little forest critters. :cool:

fifi · October 22, 2003

That goldfish cracker jingle... "until you bite their heads off".

Cute web site but I can't find the jingle.

Chad · October 22, 2003

A chicken place in Lima, Ohio, whose name escapes me at the moment. Their slogan:

If there's a better piece of chicken, the rooster's gettin' it!

Chad

bigbear · October 22, 2003

I remember a butcher in Hampton Bays, Long Island, named Mickey's. His motto was, "You can't beat Mickey's meat."

SethG · October 23, 2003

Schaffer:

"The one beer to have when you're having more than one."

Pan · October 23, 2003

Thanks. These put a smile on my face. I sort of remember the "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" one but I don't remember what product they were selling, and ditto for the bologna and the Easter Bunny slogans.

elyse · October 23, 2003

Thanks. These put a smile on my face. I sort of remember the "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" one but I don't remember what product they were selling, and ditto for the bologna and the Easter Bunny slogans.

Imperial margerine?

Oscar Mayer.

Cadbury eggs.

Edited October 23, 2003 by elyse (log)

hillbill · October 23, 2003

Edited October 23, 2003 by hillbill (log)

elyse · October 23, 2003

Wasn't Chiffon - "You may think it's butter, but it's not. It's Chiffon."

hillbill · October 23, 2003

Wasn't Chiffon - "You may think it's butter, but it's not. It's Chiffon."

I just checked, it's "If you think it's butter, but it's not, it's Chiffon." It was the tag line for the Mother Nature ads.

hillbill · October 23, 2003

Wow. Those jingles and taglines are son insidious that I'd swear it was only yesterday that I heard them all the last time. Of course some of them have been resurrected more recently, so it hasn't been that long ago for all of them. :blink:

bloviatrix · October 23, 2003

That goldfish cracker jingle... "until you bite their heads off".
Cute web site but I can't find the jingle.

I love this jingle :wub:

elyse · October 23, 2003

Wasn't Chiffon - "You may think it's butter, but it's not. It's Chiffon."
I just checked, it's "If you think it's butter, but it's not, it's Chiffon." It was the tag line for the Mother Nature ads.

See, that's what I thought the words were too, but that doesn't make any sense, does it?

Pan · October 23, 2003

I remember that TV ad for Armour hotdogs vividly. I should; I saw it over and over again as a child growing up in the 70s.

Another one I remember is an ad for something or other where the kid said "borgesmord" instead of "smorgasbord." I ran into the kid and his older brother a few years later on the M104 bus going home from school on the Upper West Side. But that ad wasn't a favorite of mine; I felt kind of neutral about it.

elyse · October 23, 2003

Remember the Playworld commercials that would play like four thousand times durring March of the Wooden Soldiers on Thanksgiving? Often back to back? I used to despise it, but now I'd love to see it. The frequency was really insane.

Pan · October 23, 2003

I don't remember the Playworld commercials off-hand. Maybe the fact that I don't remember the March of the Wooden Soldiers either could have something to do with that? :laugh:

elyse · October 23, 2003

Dear God. Laurel and Hardy erm... nasty landlord pushing his weight around, giant wind-up wooden soldiers save the day.

Aaaaand -

Playworld, a world of toys

great for girls

and great for boys...

Playworld, where prices go

so low

low

low...

low

PLAYWORLD!

tejon · October 23, 2003

That goldfish cracker jingle... "until you bite their heads off".

That has to be the best jingle ever :wub:

listen to it here!

Edited October 23, 2003 by tejon (log)

Schneier · October 23, 2003

The Fig Newton song, with the "tricky part."

Pan · October 23, 2003

I remember the Playworld ad now, Elyse. I still don't remember that Laurel & Hardy episode distinctly, but I'm sure it was funny.

Toliver · October 23, 2003

That goldfish cracker jingle... "until you bite their heads off".

That has to be the best jingle ever
listen to it here!

How many jingles are you aware of that can lay claim to having pig latin in the lyrics?

The newest commercial for the Goldfish does. :smile:

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