Follies of the Madmen #475

Makes you smell like half a horse.

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Posted By: Paul - Sun May 03, 2020 - Comments (2)
Category: Animals, Advertising, 1960s, Fictional Monsters, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents

Aspic Aquarium

I agree with Hellmann's that this would look cool as a centerpiece at a party. But serving it with mayonnaise? Even as a mayonnaise lover, I'm not sure about that.

Life - May 23, 1960

Posted By: Alex - Sat May 02, 2020 - Comments (7)
Category: Mayonnaise, Jello, 1960s

Nebula-75 - Episode One (A New For 2020 Supermarionation Drama)

Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 29, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Puppets and Automatons, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Science Fiction, 1960s, Twenty-first Century

Kream Krunch

The Kream Krunch man definitely deserves a place in our ongoing series of strange corporate mascots.

Kellogg's introduced Kream Krunch cereal in 1965. The gimmick was that the cereal included chunks of freeze-dried ice cream. The chunks were supposed to stay crunchy in milk, but reportedly they quickly dissolved into a gooey mess, which made the cereal a commercial failure that was soon discontinued.

However, the cereal is most widely remembered today for the creepy, anthropomorphized ice cream cone that served as its official mascot. Wikipedia notes: "The character was never officially named, referred to by historians simply as the Kream Krunch Cone, although it has been called Mr. Scoop Head in popular culture."

More info: MrBreakfast.com, History's Dumpster

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Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 22, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Cereal, 1960s

Follies of the Madmen #474

Somehow this image of a visiting insurance giant is not reassuring to me. He implies more destruction, rather than solace.



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Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 20, 2020 - Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Giant People in Ads, Destruction, 1960s

How to buy meat

The album How To Buy Meat was released by the US Department of Agriculture circa 1968. It consists of a series of short public service announcements about meat buying, narrated by Consumer Meat Specialist Sandra Brookover.

It's an extremely rare record because it was never sold to the public. Instead, it was sent to radio stations, in the hope that they would play the PSAs.

The PSAs, in addition to offering info about meat, were intended to encourage the public to send away to receive a series of pamphlets from the USDA. Several of these pamphlets are online, such as How to buy lamb.

I searched for samples of the album online, but I could only find a single track, which was posted on WFMU's Beware of the Blog. Nothing at all on YouTube. I've reposted the track on WU's server. It's titled: How can you tell a blade chuck roast from an arm chuck roast?.

image source: discogs.com

Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 13, 2020 - Comments (3)
Category: Food, 1960s

James Blonde

Use embedded player, or listen at the source.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 12, 2020 - Comments (0)
Category: Humor, Parody, Satire, Spies and Secret Agents, 1960s

Cat Mew Machine

New York Dispatch - Sep 19, 1963

Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 11, 2020 - Comments (3)
Category: Inventions, Cats, 1960s

Mold-A-Rama

Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 11, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Eccentrics, Collectors, Inventions, Souvenirs, Mementos, and Tchotchkes, Toys, Statues and Monuments, 1960s

Follies of the Madmen #472

That mouse is definitely giving the finger. Is it supposed to be a sexy lure for male mice to entice them into the trap? I'm confused....



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Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 10, 2020 - Comments (8)
Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Antisocial Activities, Business, Advertising, Death, 1960s