Remember the old TV ads and jingles?
Oct 14th 2007, 8:23 pm
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Re: Remember the old TV ads and jingles?
For mash get Smash
Shakmaty reminded me of "Nice people - nice prices - International" - hadn't heard that for decades
now it keeps running through my mind.
Shakmaty reminded me of "Nice people - nice prices - International" - hadn't heard that for decades
now it keeps running through my mind.
Oct 14th 2007, 8:32 pm
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Re: Remember the old TV ads and jingles?
Birds Eye peas - Patsy Kensit as a child with finger in mouth doing the "pop" sound. Must be about 30 years old.
Oct 14th 2007, 8:48 pm
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How many have had a hot dog while watching this one.
Oct 14th 2007, 9:30 pm
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Back in the 70's Smith's Crisps had a huge share of the market - probably close to 90%. I worked for Ross Foods, a div of Imperial Tobacco and they also owned a large potato operation nr Peterborough - raw spuds, frozen chips and other allied products. They decided to target the crisp market and launched Golden Wonder in a very clever way. They took single column inch ads in the major national and regional papers that said simply 'Golden Wonder is coming'. That was all but they ran for several weeks. Nobody had a clue what that even meant and there was all kinds of speculation/ buzz about it - new tobacco brand etc. Of course, they were working behind the scenes to gain distribution with Tesco, Pricerite etc......
When they came on the market, they quickly grabbed about 50% of it and it was GW, I believe, who brought flavours like Cheese and Onion to crisps for the first time. Until that time Smiths had one flavor that came with the little twisty bag of salt, remember?
When they came on the market, they quickly grabbed about 50% of it and it was GW, I believe, who brought flavours like Cheese and Onion to crisps for the first time. Until that time Smiths had one flavor that came with the little twisty bag of salt, remember?
Oct 14th 2007, 10:22 pm
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good novelty value , but READY salted where the thinking mans choice 
Oct 14th 2007, 10:27 pm
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did nt they bring it out again couple of years ago , but cheese and onion flavour ??
my faves are only out at xmas ...... turkey and stuffing flavour crisps
my faves are only out at xmas ...... turkey and stuffing flavour crisps
