"Beef, It's What's for Dinner"
It just so happens that I was eating left over pot roast for lunch and it hit me like a roll of "Charmin" and I couldn't help but "squeeze" out a thought or two about jingles and how some lucky person made up a few silly but catchy phrases and made money off it.
"Grrreat!" Now, what do you think of? Tony the Tiger of course. How about " Plop Plop Fizz Fizz"? No, not a really bad turd but "Alka-Seltzer". What's your favorite? Is it "Snap,Crackle,Pop" or the image of the Hawaiian dude getting punched? "Hey, how about some nice Hawaiian Punch?".
There all pretty crazy. Just a few words and we have an image for life in our heads. "How do you spell relief?" " R O L A I D S" and then there are some obscure ones from way,way back like this commercial I found on youtube:
That made me start looking at a bunch of others like:
and of course in my mind the most famous of all along with some others:
Well,that's it. I can't take it any more.
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