Commercials from your childhood.

[Sava]

lung cancer

[Dr Strangelove]

[Sava]

America was so much more innocent then. We need to return to those days.

[notyoueither]

This was from the US. We had higher shock ads in Canada. I recall an old lady in a smoke filled restaurant putting on a gas mask and pulling a skunk out of her bag.

[Ben Kenobi]

America was so much more innocent then. We need to return to those days.

Imagine how future America will look back at the 70s show endorsing pot.

[Ban Kenobi]

Probably not too bad since pot isn't as bad as tobacco and definitely not bad enough to merit sending people to prison for it.

[Ben Kenobi]

Probably not too bad since pot isn't as bad as tobacco and definitely not bad enough to merit sending people to prison for it.

If you told people in the 50s that they would be arrested for smoking in their car, they would call you a nut. Values change. I'm sure Cheech and chong will look much less cool 20 years from now.

[Ban Kenobi]

The trend is going in the opposite direction you nut.

[Ben Kenobi]

The trend is going in the opposite direction you nut.

Yes, and? The same was true of smoking too. Smoking's been well liked for far longer...

As I said, values change. I'm looking forward to the day when old hippies wax on about Cheech and Chong and nobody wants to have anything to do with the stoners. Who wants that smell stuck to their clothes! I mean, ewww!

[Ban Kenobi]

I, too, like to engage in fantasies about the future that have no basis in facts or evidence.

[Uncle Sparky]

[SlowwHand]

[Al B. Sure!]

Ben, wait until we look back on abortion like we do infanticide.

[molly bloom]

Smash go the spuds :

[molly bloom]

A Cadbury's chocolate bar fondly remembered for its bizarre imagery (sacrificial temples just go so well with confectionery, I find...) Aztec:

The Aztec Bar Legend: a Retro Cadbury’s Chocolate Bar that’s gone but not forgotten


The subject of favourite retro sweets and chocolate bars that are no longer available is quite subjective. Everyone has their own personal favourite childhood sweet that they yearn for and wish was back on the sweetshop shelves. But there’s one chocolate bar in particular that seems more missed by more people than most others. An indication of the continuing nostalgia for this particular long-lost retro sweet can be gained simply by typing just two words –‘Aztec bar’– into Google. More than two million (two million!) results are returned and those that head the list tend to include phrases such as “Whatever happened to Cadbury’s Aztec bar” and “Bring back Cadbury’s Aztec”. It seems that a huge chunk of the population old enough to remember the Aztec bar remember it with such fondness and desire that they’d love to see it return. So what exactly was it that made Cadbury’s Aztec bar so special?

1967: The year that Cadbury’s decided to take on its biggest rival

In 1932, an American immigrant to England, Forrest Mars, rented a confectionery factory in Slough, Berkshire with the intention of replicating the stateside success of a chocolate bar his father had invented. The USA version was called ‘Milky Way’, but young Forrest tinkered with the recipe, making it slightly sweeter and renaming his version simply ‘Mars’. This original recipe – a soft nougat bar, topped with soft caramel and coated with thick milk chocolate – was an instant success and the global popularity of the Mars bar remains undiminished eight decades later.

The success of this upstart confectioner must have irritated Cadbury’s which had, after all, been producing popular chocolate treats since 1831. However, Cadbury’s waited thirty-five years before taking on Mars at its own game. In 1967 they launched the Aztec bar which was – wait for it – a slightly firmer nougat bar, topped with soft caramel and coated with thick milk chocolate.

Bizarrely, this apparent carbon-copy of the Mars formula was also an instant hit: there is some credence to the theory that buyers preferred something that tasted like a Mars bar but was wrapped in Cadbury’s chocolate. That and the fact that Cadbury’s Aztec was a halfpenny (ask your granddad) cheaper than a Mars bar at the time…

http://www.oldschoolsweets.com/the-aztec-bar-legend-a-retro-cadburys-chocolate-bar-thats-gone-but-not-forgotten/

Can't find the advertisement, but here's Fry's Turkish Delight, mixing up Turks with Arabs (note to ad agencies- Turkey lacks deserts, and men wore the fez, not turbans...)

And the music ? Panpipes. Oy.