If there was an award for the best advertisement for the worst product the Chesdale cheese ad from the 1960s would have to be a contender.
The plastic apology for cheese was (is? do they still make it?) awful but the ad had a catchy tune and cute cartoon characters.
Almost any Kiwi who’s 50ish plus can probably sing We are the blokes from down on the farm, we really know our cheese . . . it’s finest cheddar, made beddar
I came across it last week when searching for a song for Music Month and was reminded of it again because Keeping Stock’s Music Month post today is another blast from the advertising past – the KFC ad from the 1970s. It was called Kentucky Fried back then and although I was a student and rarely saw TV I still know that Hugo said you go and I said no you go . . .
Inquiring Mind has an appropriate choice for the end of a week when we’ve been reminded it’s winter: Weather with You from Crowded House.
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