Vintage Ads That Would Never Fly Today

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Here are some funny vintage advertisements I found. With today's language and culture, they take on whole other meanings. Many are downright offensive, or if read in modern English, without thinking of the context of those times, could be misconstrued as offensive.

You can comment with (clean) vintage ads too!

Let's share the laughs!

 

[Metalhead]

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Yeaaaaaaaaah. I’m pretty sure if anyone made this ad today, they’d be immediately arrested and put on the list.

 

[Magna]

The ad about eating lard interests me. I read a story within the last month about how lard was originally demonized. Cotton companies wanted to find a use and a value for an agricultural waste product, cottonseed oil. It was previously used for industrial purposes. They discovered by hydrogenating the industrial waste product using chemicals, etc they could market a lard substitute: Crisco. It was a hard sell. There was nothing wrong with lard (rendered pork fat) and it was ubiquitous.

The makers of Crisco spent more on advertising the product to the public than had been spent on any other product up to that point to convince people to use it. Many many decades later, many many clogged arteries and heart diseases later and here we are today with the knowledge that natural unadulterated fats such as organic lard when eaten in moderation is healthy and much healthier than hydrogenated manufactured fat substitutes.

 

[Magna]

Kukla, Fran and Ollie!

 

[WildCat]

I think in the ad for Midol and the others, when they use the word "gay" the meaning was intended to be happy or full of joy and not what people usually think of (homosexual), and that would make a lot more sense to people like me and everyone else who wasn't born around the time.

Otherwise, looking on the surface it sounds to me like insults you'd hear on a school playground. Also:

Betty's gay with Midol too

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

This one is really unsettling given the context.

I don’t even know what to say about this one....