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sueluvshalloween wrote:

Pumpkin_Man wrote: I remember when the Dolly Madison Company use to make the Zingers before they sold it to Hostess. Zingers were cake treats shaped like twinkies, and you got 3 Zingers to a package. They also featured "Peanuts" characters on each one. The chocloate Zingers featured Charlie Brown with Snoopy. The strawberry Zingers featured Lucy, and the vinilla or yellow Zingers featured Sally.

Mike

I remember Zingers. Did they make a coconut-covered flavor?

sure do!

I have the December 1975 issue of Better Homes and Gardens (picked it up at an antique store a few years ago) ... lo and behold, there's a full-page black and white ad for Ayds Reducing Plan Candies. This woman from Arlington, VA, tells the story about how the Ayds plan helped her go from 170 pounds down to 104 (she's 5'1"). She was in a very unhappy marriage, so she ate all these fattening foods, then, at age 31, she had to undergo a hysterectomy. Then came the divorce. So she went out and bought a box of chocolate-fudge Ayds. While on the Ayds plan, she caught the flu and didn't feel like eating, so she didn't eat any Ayds, discovering she no longer needed them. Funny stuff!

This magazine is great ... it's interesting to see how some of the foods that are still around pretty much have the same labels or packaging that they did back then, or how they used to look. Hellmann's mayo, Sun-Maid raisins, ReaLemon juice, and Rice Krispies looked exactly the same back then as they do now. There are some foods that I completely forgot about, so it's fun to see the old ads. Does anyone remember Top Choice dog food? It actually looked liked raw ground beef with cheese and egg bits. Some of the recipes look downright nasty ... there's a recipe/advertisement for a frozen Yule log made with Dole slice pineapples and Miracle Whip. You couldn't pay me enough to eat that! And the ad for peaches is a bit suggestive. Hey, and here's Elke Sommer advertising Special K! Ooh ... an ad for Purina Puppy Chow featuring a dismembered beagle! I love the black and white ads in the back pages. What fun!

sueluvshalloween wrote:I have the December 1975 issue of Better Homes and Gardens (picked it up at an antique store a few years ago) ... lo and behold, there's a full-page black and white ad for Ayds Reducing Plan Candies. This woman from Arlington, VA, tells the story about how the Ayds plan helped her go from 170 pounds down to 104 (she's 5'1"). She was in a very unhappy marriage, so she ate all these fattening foods, then, at age 31, she had to undergo a hysterectomy. Then came the divorce. So she went out and bought a box of chocolate-fudge Ayds. While on the Ayds plan, she caught the flu and didn't feel like eating, so she didn't eat any Ayds, discovering she no longer needed them. Funny stuff!

I bet the marketing group who named that product had a real headache around 1983 or there abouts.

AH-HA!!

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Andybev01 wrote:AH-HA!!

I don't know if I have shared this with y'all yet, but go here and look through the galleries and read the publisher comments.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/

I've seen this before ... can't believe folks ate stuff that looked like that!

Andybev01 wrote:

sueluvshalloween wrote:I have the December 1975 issue of Better Homes and Gardens (picked it up at an antique store a few years ago) ... lo and behold, there's a full-page black and white ad for Ayds Reducing Plan Candies. This woman from Arlington, VA, tells the story about how the Ayds plan helped her go from 170 pounds down to 104 (she's 5'1"). She was in a very unhappy marriage, so she ate all these fattening foods, then, at age 31, she had to undergo a hysterectomy. Then came the divorce. So she went out and bought a box of chocolate-fudge Ayds. While on the Ayds plan, she caught the flu and didn't feel like eating, so she didn't eat any Ayds, discovering she no longer needed them. Funny stuff!

I bet the marketing group who named that product had a real headache around 1983 or there abouts.

Yep ... I said the same thing a few posts up. I saw these ads all the time during the '70s, but when the AIDS epidemic struck in the early '80s, I never saw the ads. Don't know if it was a coincidence or on purpose, where it would no longer be appropriate to advertise that you could lose weight if you had Ayds.

HA! I vaguely remember Ayds, and I also seem to have some sort of really early childhood memory of when I first heard about the AIDS epidemic, and I vaguely remember wondering if the candy was killing people!

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sueluvshalloween wrote:

Pumpkin_Man wrote: I remember when the Dolly Madison Company use to make the Zingers before they sold it to Hostess. Zingers were cake treats shaped like twinkies, and you got 3 Zingers to a package. They also featured "Peanuts" characters on each one. The chocloate Zingers featured Charlie Brown with Snoopy. The strawberry Zingers featured Lucy, and the vinilla or yellow Zingers featured Sally.

Mike

I remember Zingers. Did they make a coconut-covered flavor?

sure do!

What a trip. I was at lunch earlier today and lookie what I found. They didn't have any other, just the plain ones. I was kid of disappointed because the red with coconut were my favorites.

They look more like Twinkies.

Wasn't there a chocolate Twinkies at one time?

They are exactly like Twinkies.

Chocodials...?

Andybev01 wrote:Chocodials...?

Hmmmm...I like chocolate, I like Twinkies, I just can't put those 2 together in my brain.

I'd have to try one.