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I may have to go shopping and get some Coco Pops and Froot Loops, some C00n cheese, some chicos and redskins from the lolly aisle and get a slab of beer from the Colonial brewery, as long as it doesn't taste like Emu Export. WA can do wine well but only Adelaide does worse beer.
I buy some fads and we’ll meet at the E.S Brown oval in Toowoomba and have some toasties...
Lets meet in Tittybong. I'll bring the bong......
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
What'sinaname wrote:^ I loved the Big Boss and Fags lollies when I was a kid
Big boss with the sugary red tip and the chocolate cigarettes were awesome.
It’s funny I had heaps of each as a tin lid but never smoked a single cigarette In my life.
Remind me - what accent did he speak with in the TV ads? I can’t recall but I do have him bracketed with “Lime Fresh, Fresh Lime” - and that’s not a good thing.
I’m not watching 27 minutes of ads - but those aren’t the Coco Pops Monkey we had/have, more like a gorilla - the advertising was obviously different in the UK. What I had in mind was Coco saying “Just like a chocolate milkshake only crunchy” - my recollection was that he must’ve been a Central or South American monkey because he had a pronounced Hispanic accent (not unlike Speedy Gonzalez to my childish ears). No doubt, Coco’s dress-style was intended to connote some stereotype, too. I don’t think there’s much doubt he was a racist caricature in the form we had him. Whatever he was, he wasn’t really a “monkey”.
stui magpie wrote:OK, I'm not arguing simply because I never saw anything like that in the ads. Maybe it was there, maybe it wasn't
Well that’s obviously because you are drinking from the wrong glass - get thee some of these and bang - the light will shine down on thee and you will be enlightened and understand that this is the way forward ( the only way and the only voice) .......
That’s at least a decade too late. It looks like the advertisers understood the problem, according to their own lights, and by 1982 had got rid of the thick, caricature accent.
David wrote:Whatever you do, though, don’t try the special edition white chocolate Coco Pops. Take it from me.
They're awful. 2 preteens here + me who all love sweet cereal and nobody wants them
Agreed! Just revolting. I can do Nutri Grain, Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes, even Froot Loops on a good day, but I’d love to know how many times over the decades "Coco Pops ... but white chocolate" has come up in Kellogg’s committee meetings and been shot down before they finally succumbed. Sadly, I’m a sucker for novelty.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
stui magpie wrote:OK, I'm not arguing simply because I never saw anything like that in the ads. Maybe it was there, maybe it wasn't
Well that’s obviously because you are drinking from the wrong glass - get thee some of these and bang - the light will shine down on thee and you will be enlightened and understand that this is the way forward ( the only way and the only voice) .......
