sure do!sueluvshalloween wrote:I remember Zingers. Did they make a coconut-covered flavor?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 bet the marketing group who named that product had a real headache around 1983 or there abouts.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've seen this before ... can't believe folks ate stuff that looked like that!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/
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.Andybev01 wrote:I bet the marketing group who named that product had a real headache around 1983 or there abouts.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!
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.Spookymufu wrote:sure do!sueluvshalloween wrote:I remember Zingers. Did they make a coconut-covered flavor?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
Andybev01 wrote:Chocodials...?
