Biscuit ads

[scotchmist]

Re: Biscuit ads

How about the ad for "Montego" where you have a housewife trying one for the first time and she starts doing the rumba around the living room as it makes her feel all tropical and exotic. Her husband is asleep in an armchair and she says to her daughter "Hey let's give one to your father, maybe it'll liven him up a bit!", at which point he leans over (still apparently asleep) and pinches her bum! funneeeeeeeee!!

[GreenKnight]

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I'm off to P-P-P-Pick up a Penguin.

I remember those ads from waaaaay back when the voice-over was done by Derek Nimmo! That dates me. Hands up if you just said: "Who?"
Well for all those who did, take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Nimmo

[Heather74]

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As Mentioned in the OP
Whistler

[George 1978]

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Never heard of Whistler - before my time. The name and font looks similar to Wispa however.

Anyway, this thread reminded me of the McVities biscuits adverts in the 1980s such as the one for Chocolate Homewheat where the mother hides a packet of biscuits behind a shelf full of books, and going "shush" to the dog (as if the dog can actually tell the family where the biscuits actually are). The children who had gone out for the day, come back home and play Hide and Seek to find the biscuits - a girl uplifting a sofa cushion etc. Another one in the series was for Rich Tea which was set on a building site, and I assume that a lot of people would confuse it with the Birds Eye "will it be chips of jacket spuds?" Steakhouse Grills advert from around the same time.

I suppose that Kit Kat is quite marginal in that respect.

[Clare]

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I don't know if it's still the case but, I believe "Jaffa Cakes" qualify as cakes for tax purposes, i.e. they are exempt or zero rated. If they were classed as biscuits, they'd have VAT added. It's because biscuits are a luxury, but cakes are a necessity!

[MiniMort]

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Furthermore, when cakes go stale, they harden and when biscuits go stale they soften. Jaffa Cakes go hard when they are stale so its a cake. Also, a Jaffa Cake has 'Cake' in its title so its a cake... Anyway back to the point, I don't recall a commercial for Jaffa Cakes.

[tex]

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anyone remember these.
http://youtu.be/DmoAjy_m0aQ

Certainly, i used to sell them, i was a shopkeeper for 30 years

[tex]

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I don't know if it's still the case but, I believe "Jaffa Cakes" qualify as cakes for tax purposes, i.e. they are exempt or zero rated. If they were classed as biscuits, they'd have VAT added. It's because biscuits are a luxury, but cakes are a necessity!

Correct cakes are tax free

[George 1978]

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Furthermore, when cakes go stale, they harden and when biscuits go stale they soften. Jaffa Cakes go hard when they are stale so its a cake. Also, a Jaffa Cake has 'Cake' in its title so its a cake... Anyway back to the point, I don't recall a commercial for Jaffa Cakes.

Jaffa Cakes used to have cartoon adverts in the 1980s with a Goblin-type character in them. They also advertised just a few years ago with adverts such as the teacher "full moon, half moon, total eclipse" one - they had Chris Eubank (or some impersonating him) as a voiceover at the end of the advert.

As cakes are made similar to bread, I suppose that is why they harden or go stale, while biscuits actually go soft instead - wouldn't it be almost a perfect world if it happened the other way round?

[George 1978]

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But then again, pancakes are not "cakes" are they?

[escorteclipse1990]

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I remember the 54321 advert.

[escorteclipse1990]

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Furthermore, when cakes go stale, they harden and when biscuits go stale they soften. Jaffa Cakes go hard when they are stale so its a cake. Also, a Jaffa Cake has 'Cake' in its title so its a cake... Anyway back to the point, I don't recall a commercial for Jaffa Cakes.

Ahh the good old Jaffa Cake row when is a cake a cake and a biscuit a biscuit, i don't care i love Jaffa cakes. LOL, i do remember jaffa cake adverts.

[Clare]

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I remember the 54321 advert.

Oh yeah! "First, bite into real milk chocolate..."

[George 1978]

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I remember the 54321 advert.

They did a couple of variations of that advert - Ted Rogers also appeared in one.

And of course, when the Spice Girls did their 12345 song for the start of Channel 5 in March 1997, you can tell what it reminded me of...

[MiniMort]

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Oh yeah! "First, bite into real milk chocolate..."

5432Q
(Annoyed look)