burger chef.. where everyone is totally stoned. the kids the adults the staff the jingle writer and singer and of course the announcer. burger chef.... burn one with us!
In 1970 I was 10 years old. Mom would take my little brother and I to BC every other Friday night for dinner (payday). I always got the "Triple Treat"...Hamburger, fries, and a shake. The smell of the place used to make my mom sick.
My friend and I used to ride our bikes into town on Saturday and eat at Burger Chef. That was 30+ years ago. The place eventually closed down and the building was demolished. They have since put up an Arby's fast food joint in its place.
Catsup. Yup he sure did. And where are Burger Chef and Jeff?? This is why they failed. You can't caress people with gentle music into eating fast food. You gotta drop it on them with the hard sell and quick soundbites!
Burger Chef used to let you climb up on the roof all the time to eat your fries. That's what made them better than McDonald's, to me. I always got my fries, then scurried right up the side of the building, so I could eat. It was no problem to them...
...until all of the senseless deaths. Well, let's just say "swimming" isn't the only thing one should avoid after eating. Turns out, climbing down off of a hot roof with a belly-full of fries (cooked in pure beef tallow), is not a good idea either.
This commercial gives me the creeps! The singer's voice is haunting. "Are you Hungry, what would you like?" The chick eating fries on the roof of the restaurant. "Hello, Hello!" CREEPY.
I remember when I was 3 or 4, my mom and grandpa taking me to Burger Chef. Great memories. Then it was a Hardee's, then a Rax bought it, now it is a Walgreens. They just don't make 'em like they used to.
@rubicon1983 did you go to school just to eat your lunch? Now listen carefully: when you count to ten do you stop at nine??? Was the first year of the 60's 1959??? ROTFLMFAO!!!!
@rubicon1983 HA HOW DO YOU CYPHER THAT BOAH?! 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969....now boah what's missing? Are there nine years in a decade or ten? HA!
excuse me but did that chick just wipe her hand on her hair!,she was waaaay ahead of her time, if that's not ''going green''i don't know what is.lol,just kidding, i love the oldies
Every commercial from that era reminds me of a group of hippies sitting by a camp fire and playing guitar. I prefer the neon lights and cheesy synth of the 80s.
Look at how adorable those children looked like back then! And how well behaved they appeared. I would be so glad if I were at a restaurant, store, mall, office building, etc., and saw these kinds of children there. Now, OTOH, so many children are such rude brats, and they dress like they're going out to a club. Oh how I wish the children of today were like the children back then!
@ladyi7609 I agree. I was their age back then. I miss the 1970's.It was such a good decade to be a kid.We used our imagination to entertain ourselves back then.
That's a good synopsis of why we are the fattest fuckers in the world.
They said "we have a 1/4 hamburger now" as if that was really something....it probably was then. Now double quarter pounders are just normal. Hardees has a 1/3 pound with bacon.
If any of you ever took any good quality English classes back in the day in High School (back when words were wrote properly and spoken properly) that was how it was pronounced. Trust me. I gave my teacher the 'Catsup' look also. These commercials remind me that times are a changing. Not for the better either.
@mrexciting64 Oh i don't know. Even with the things that are "wrong" nowadays. I'll take today everytime over the "good old days." People have a really bad habit of idealizing the past.
I'm suprised the music made me a little sad. You'll NEVER find a sandwich that big at any fast food restaurant today. Everything was bigger in the 1970's.
The film is bad cuz its red. But it lived since 1970. And the music is calm unlike today's commercials (save for the Tootsie Roll Pop commercial, not the original 60s one, the 2004 remake with Mr. Owl only)
You gotta be middle-aged to remember this one. I was thirteen in 1970. We were poor and never got to go to Burger Chef. I don't even think we even had one of them in my town. The commercial brings back massive memories of tedious hous spent in front of a snowy analog tv dreaming about how everybody els in the world had Burger Chef every day after mornings spent inthe toy department of some big department store.
I loved Burger Chef back in the 1970s. I also agree that TV commercials were nicer back then. TV commercials today are really obnoxious, too loud, too much screaming and blaring music...generally disgusting. No wonder people are more aggressive everywhere these days. A damn shame how times have changed for the worse.
Burger chef was really good. I worked in the Rumford Rhode Island store. No one on one ordering, During rush hours we waited on four or five customers at once. Burgers came down a chain driven rack and were broiled fresh. Pneumatic catsup and mustard gadget squirted it onto the bun that you pressed on it., One really good mass production setup actually
lol it was Spelled CATSUP until the Lawsuit with the Heinz`s, I read where Catsup or Ketchup was developed as a Wheel bearing Grease for Military Caisons & other wheels on Military equipment, They would stop the equipment ever so often to Grease the Wheels & Yell out "CATCH UP" (CATSUP) hmmmmmmmmm lol I found a bottle a year ago on a shelf in an ole` country store that read CATSUP, that stuff had to be OLD, it was only one bottle, I should have bought it as an antique, ROFL
We find both spellings in Canada, depending on the brand.
It seems to me that the bulk product that restaurants and institutions use is more likely to be branded as Catsup, where as your Heinz and label products are Ketchup.
I remember that "Works Bar" Man! what memories! Such a shame they're all gone now. They were the original "Have it your way" that later Burger King stole the idea that you could have your burger made the way you wanted. After all these years I can still see this commercial and still remember the smell and the taste of those burgers, yum!
They had onions on them, later they had the "Works Bar" where you could build one yourself or you could let them put onions on it for you. I remember this as a kid, The "Super Chef" and the "Fun Meal" It was one of the best restaraunts in the world. Too bad it's gone now.
I know there are bigger issues in the world, but I don't think Burger Chef had onions on their burgers. When we ate there as kids my mom complained that there were no onions on her burger. We kids were really embarrassed, but I definitely remember it being Burger Chef!!!
LOL!!! Whaddya MEAN, "bigger issues in the world!"??!?!? This settles the argument once and for all!! Unlike all the political ranting on YouTube. Thanks (to your Mom, too).
One thing I noticed around the late 60's early 70's it seemed guys took to wearing those sweater shirts that looked like a short sleeve t shirt. Some had a high neck and were a nappy material. The Dad has on a white one in this ad.
If you could, would you go back to those days? I believe I would too. No air conditioning, crank windows, big V-8's one type of coke, we didnt worry about being skinny, and you could still go downtown to shop.
This made me feel emotional & sad...the calm relaxing innocence of life then. :-( It's like seeing part of my childhood & I have woke from a long sleep & things have gotten worse. The BC in Winter Haven FL was quiet, never crowded...we seemed to have lots of room to live our sheltered lives unlike today which feels so much more harsh & chaotic. I remember the burgers having lots of shredded lettuce & being very mayonaisy. My Mom always seemed to have coupons from the paper.
We had a BC in Temple Terrace on 56th St just south of Busch Blvd for many years. Last I saw it was a bank. They had the top-your-own-burger bar and salad bar that mesmerized this 9 or 10 yr old (at the time.) I could put a dozen pickles on my burger and no one could say anything about it!
Kneejerker: Life in quieter in central FL then in NYC no doubt - but I also think that a lot of what I have expressed here is also there as well. :-P Things change & we can't go back or desire for that or else we can really be in a bad place. Don't u agree?
Couple of things. The woman singing this has a beautiful voice but my goodness who could sit on top of the building like that? You would get arrested if you did that. I don't think anyone ever did that! Oh and those people riding up on a horse to get a burger?? Whats up with that? Is this Burger Chef out in the countryside? Sure looks like a lot of Chevy Caprice's in the parking lot though.
Normal people that speak english serving burgers?? Normal family type people eating burgers? WTF am I missing here. Nowadays dem burger places remind me of a zoo with ignorant non english speaking idiots behind the counter. Rip Van Winkle here. Just woke up after a 45 year sleep and the whole place has gone down the tubes.
The tune used in this commercial is a blatant rip-off of a song by a San Francisco group called Sopwith Camel. It was called "Hello Hello" and is nearly quoted verbatim here. I suspect they didn't receive one penny for it either. Shameless.
the difference is the tomato content..catsup has less than 40%TOMATO IN IT,.plus we lost in vietnam because people ate at burgerking instead of burger chef..seabrook n.h had a awesome burger chef rite next to the nuke plant.
Old comercials from the late 1980s and back... people just looked like normal people.
New comercials from the Mid 1990s to present: Every character is horny and stupid motivating the American Culture to behave the same, purchase a product and feel happy for no reason...
I remember this commercial! I agree that commercials nowadays insult your intelligence. They don't even make the food in commercials look appetizing anymore!
@Escalofrio111 There is actually a very good commerical running in the UK for KFC at present that focuses on the foood and features no celbs or anything horny.
I remember as a kid seeing bottles of "Catsup" on grocery store shelves, along with the now standard "Ketchup". It was spelled "Catsup" and pronounced "Cat-Sup" which is totally weird today and was not the norm even back in the '50s and 60's "out west" where we lived. I wonder if that spelling/pronunciation is from some (other) region of the USA? I think I need to get a life, lol.
When McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy's were all coming out with the chicken sandwiches, Burger Chef came out with theirs, and it was the best! I miss their chicken club sandwich.
At age 9 or 10, 1972-73, we used to play in the woods and gather old bottles to get the 5 cent deposit per bottle. We found enough bottles for all three of us kids to all get FunBurgers, Apple Turnovers and Drinks. Who could beat a 25 cent FunBurger!!!!!
I drove thru BR and saw a weinerschnitsel....I thought they would have gone out of biz a long time ago...I still make homemade Polish sausage sandwiches.
I have just started a bring back burger chef petition to sign the petition go to petitionspot d o t c o m/petitions/bringbackburgerchef I'm hoping to get enough signatures to send our petition to river west brands to let them know we support their fight against hardees and we love burger chef
anyone interested in reviving this place should e-mail river west brands site and let them know that you support them in their case against hardees and tell them I want my burger chef. and let hardees know that your mad and that they should requinlish any rights of it to see case go to wikipedia and search burger chef and click the first external link
Distinct possibilty. Our old Sandy's ( ever heard of em' ? ) from back in the late 60's early 70's later became where Hardee's is now located. Our Burger Chef became the new KFC joint that moved from across the street where they were located in an old school KFC building with the Colonel weather vane on top. Ah where has time gone ?
lol....I just did a quick research on Sandy's restaurants and it turns out they were taken over by Hardee's. So yes, they probably more than likely DID take over Burger Chef. Ah the internet, what a marvelous invention by Al Gore.
I think, perhaps, that after all the ruckus of the 60's, people we're kind of looking for more relaxed times, what with vietnam and assasinations, riots, etc.....
We should have just gone in heavy early on and taken over the North, it would have been over pretty quickly and so many lives would have been saved (much more than if we had never gone, b/c there would still have been a war).
that is the most haunting burger song ever
secretseamonster 2 weeks ago
Back in the day, I don't recall seeing many super obese people in fast food establishments like today. What happened?
smith1958b 4 weeks ago
My Aunt worked at the one in Wausau WI, for many years in fact that's where my cousins would hang out and eat at.
bingobongo445 1 month ago
How'd that stoner get on the roof?
NYKID10014 2 months ago
@NYKID10014 She flew up there.
bingobongo445 1 month ago
it was our favorite place to get hamburgers when i was a kid
missy12061 3 months ago
burger chef.. where everyone is totally stoned. the kids the adults the staff the jingle writer and singer and of course the announcer. burger chef.... burn one with us!
putdownan8dude 3 months ago in playlist 80s & 70s Food Commercials
In 1970 I was 10 years old. Mom would take my little brother and I to BC every other Friday night for dinner (payday). I always got the "Triple Treat"...Hamburger, fries, and a shake. The smell of the place used to make my mom sick.
USMCDAD47 3 months ago
Cat-sup. Mmmmmm.
HotMaSherry 3 months ago
catsup...wtf????
MsSuzyQ88 3 months ago
My friend and I used to ride our bikes into town on Saturday and eat at Burger Chef. That was 30+ years ago. The place eventually closed down and the building was demolished. They have since put up an Arby's fast food joint in its place.
vegmatic1966 4 months ago
Their burgers look better than my mother's cooking. That's not a good thing.
MattTheSaiyan 5 months ago
Sure brings back pleasant memories! We had a burger chef just 3 miles from our house back in the late 1960`s.
Wish they were still around.
pompste 5 months ago 3
I remember Burger Chef as a child. We eat there sometimes.
Sheri451 5 months ago
This commercial is so calming.
Jdo4031 5 months ago 3
I want to ride a horse to Burger Chef, get up on the roof, and eat a Super Chef with those trippin' fries. :)
Karen12777 5 months ago 2
This commercial is beautiful... the song is so wonderful .. This whole commercial is a work of art...
ShammyRandall 5 months ago 3
Digging the girl tripping on acid sitting on the roof eating fries!
BrentAudi 6 months ago
damn, that mom was fine
zalupastyle 6 months ago 2
@john27346 And you're taking my comment as serious.
cranie4 6 months ago
We had them in the Boston area too.
dpjaexp 6 months ago
you microwave a hamburger already on a bun its soggy out of business.bad guess white shirts
taterheadkiley 6 months ago
Catsup. Yup he sure did. And where are Burger Chef and Jeff?? This is why they failed. You can't caress people with gentle music into eating fast food. You gotta drop it on them with the hard sell and quick soundbites!
cranie4 6 months ago
@cranie4 You're judging this advert by today's standards.
John27346 6 months ago
Tell me that guy didnt just say Cat-Sup
StoneCold75 6 months ago
Yessiree, been quite some time since I seen a couple on horseback ridin' away from the burger joint.... LOL... ah, this takes me back.
usernamevidio 7 months ago
Burger Chef used to let you climb up on the roof all the time to eat your fries. That's what made them better than McDonald's, to me. I always got my fries, then scurried right up the side of the building, so I could eat. It was no problem to them...
...until all of the senseless deaths. Well, let's just say "swimming" isn't the only thing one should avoid after eating. Turns out, climbing down off of a hot roof with a belly-full of fries (cooked in pure beef tallow), is not a good idea either.
BuckitSitch 7 months ago
Those were the days!!!!
I want em back:-)
erecon67 7 months ago 2
This commercial gives me the creeps! The singer's voice is haunting. "Are you Hungry, what would you like?" The chick eating fries on the roof of the restaurant. "Hello, Hello!" CREEPY.
ldonhawk 7 months ago
These kids would be pretty much my age right now.
rasputin63 7 months ago
Get an A on your report card and get a free hamburger.
indyimpala 7 months ago
Lol Cat Sup'
francis43123 7 months ago
the music makes this commercial mad creepy
TheGoldfather 8 months ago
I haven't been in a Burger Chef in a long time, but this sure stirs the memories. Thanks' for posting it.
FiendsInRedSatin1 8 months ago
She sure was.
sparkie119 8 months ago
I remember when I was 3 or 4, my mom and grandpa taking me to Burger Chef. Great memories. Then it was a Hardee's, then a Rax bought it, now it is a Walgreens. They just don't make 'em like they used to.
punishedexistence 8 months ago
Was that filmed in Heaven?
aboutdafunk 9 months ago
Cat sup.
mcleanartists 9 months ago
at 0:38 I'd go all out to please her...shes HAWT!
DavidsProductions 10 months ago
Compared to the 70's, the present blows. In fact, the present blows compared to almost any decade in recent memory.
ToddSweeneyOnce 10 months ago 2
@ToddSweeneyOnce The 70's were the best decade by far. Especially for music.
rubicon1983 9 months ago
@rubicon1983 1970 was the last year of the 1960's.
mcleanartists 9 months ago
@mcleanartists No, that would be 1969.
rubicon1983 9 months ago
@rubicon1983 did you go to school just to eat your lunch? Now listen carefully: when you count to ten do you stop at nine??? Was the first year of the 60's 1959??? ROTFLMFAO!!!!
Unclemoparman 9 months ago
@rubicon1983 HA HOW DO YOU CYPHER THAT BOAH?! 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969....now boah what's missing? Are there nine years in a decade or ten? HA!
mcleanartists 9 months ago
We haven't really evolved that much.
kenfuscious 11 months ago
Didn't Burger Chef turn into Burger King?
Midnightryder7 1 year ago
@Midnightryder7 some locations perhaps, but burger chef as a company was bought by hardees.
FabFM 11 months ago
cat-sup love it lol
RAGE1524 1 year ago
A rather creepy & desperate commercial even for its time.
LitterboxDiorama 1 year ago
Is it pathetic that this commercial makes me nostalgic for the good ole days. Sigh.
TheMelamia 1 year ago
I was a Kid also in the 70 and kids dint have the hyper sensitivity they do now from all the electronic distractions and multiple parenting.
FunkDoppler 1 year ago 11
0:06 mommy was a milf!
DisasterBlaster500 1 year ago
I think burger chef became burger king
carbonunit 1 year ago
@carbonunit
Bcapitalist 1 year ago
@carbonunit Hardees
Bcapitalist 1 year ago
@carbonunit Most Burger Chef locations became Hardee's.
jimmytinez 1 year ago
Back in those times it was great there were less laws and restrictions!
harvestave 1 year ago
One look at a Hardees commercial today is repulsive.
harvestave 1 year ago
i remember burger chef when i was very very young,,,,the cheeseburgers were like 18 cents and everybody was white
morgankitty1 1 year ago 24
@morgankitty1 good old days
daabaa1 5 months ago
excuse me but did that chick just wipe her hand on her hair!,she was waaaay ahead of her time, if that's not ''going green''i don't know what is.lol,just kidding, i love the oldies
slinginguitarman 1 year ago
Apparently at Burger Chef, safety is not an issue. You can sit on their flippin' roof or ride a horse about the parking lot.
fullbag50 1 year ago
0:25 OMFG how dangerous is that!!???
teetee1324 1 year ago
Every commercial from that era reminds me of a group of hippies sitting by a camp fire and playing guitar. I prefer the neon lights and cheesy synth of the 80s.
greekwolf 1 year ago
@greekwolf The good old analog days!!!!I liked the folk sound of the early 1970's.Jim Croce, Bread, Gordon Lightfoot, and CSN
MrJacMac1986 1 year ago
Hello, Hello by the Sopwith Camel.
monkeeman1966 1 year ago
We had one in Henderson, Ky in the 70s . Burger Chef & Sandys restaurants merged and became Hardees restaurants in the 80s.
audiemo 1 year ago
Look at how adorable those children looked like back then! And how well behaved they appeared. I would be so glad if I were at a restaurant, store, mall, office building, etc., and saw these kinds of children there. Now, OTOH, so many children are such rude brats, and they dress like they're going out to a club. Oh how I wish the children of today were like the children back then!
ladyi7609 1 year ago
@ladyi7609 I agree. I was their age back then. I miss the 1970's.It was such a good decade to be a kid.We used our imagination to entertain ourselves back then.
MrJacMac1986 1 year ago
Nice "David Caruso" moment at :10
grooviant 1 year ago
Fond memories. Best burgers Ive ever tasted. My mom used to take me and my brothers there after a day of swimming in the summer.
believer06 1 year ago
@believer06
Same for me, had them in central N.J. I use to go there in 70 and get a burger, fries and coke for $1.05. The .05 was N.J. sales tax.
p8ryot 1 year ago
We had a Burger Chef. They got rid of all the Burger Chefs in NC a LONG time ago.
Sheri451 1 year ago
catsup.
newkillergenius 1 year ago
@newkillergenius i caught that one too
MauserK43 1 year ago
@newkillergenius thats what i thought!!!!!!
RoostyNY 1 year ago
That is one of the Sweetest commercials I've seen, People just being people ;)
myhoneyjudah 1 year ago
That's a good synopsis of why we are the fattest fuckers in the world.
They said "we have a 1/4 hamburger now" as if that was really something....it probably was then. Now double quarter pounders are just normal. Hardees has a 1/3 pound with bacon.
kaos3124 1 year ago
Back when commercials actually made sense...
Pino4649 1 year ago
i looooove how he says "catsup"
nwilczyn 1 year ago
listen to the chorus: watch?v=PaV5UCMsW-8&feature=related
radioactivenews 1 year ago
YES TELL THE TRUTH [escalfrio]
cartoonist1975 1 year ago
If any of you ever took any good quality English classes back in the day in High School (back when words were wrote properly and spoken properly) that was how it was pronounced. Trust me. I gave my teacher the 'Catsup' look also. These commercials remind me that times are a changing. Not for the better either.
mrexciting64 1 year ago
@mrexciting64 Oh i don't know. Even with the things that are "wrong" nowadays. I'll take today everytime over the "good old days." People have a really bad habit of idealizing the past.
auntbecky 1 year ago 2
@auntbecky then why are you visiting a nostalgic commercial? Also, you dont seem to have anything current on your youtube channel.
Anyway, Im happy to have grown up in the 70s.
believer06 1 year ago
capsup?
BipolarPics 1 year ago
Where was Burger Chef??
vegas787 1 year ago
@vegas787 I know they had them in Ohio
djpioneer937 1 year ago
Cat-sup? What the hell is Cat-sup?
aikicinema 1 year ago
I wish they still had Burger Chef's .
Sheri451 1 year ago
We used to hang out at the one in Toms River Silverton Hooper Avenue all the time!
TomsRiverTV 1 year ago
I'm suprised the music made me a little sad. You'll NEVER find a sandwich that big at any fast food restaurant today. Everything was bigger in the 1970's.
WETNWILD85 1 year ago
The film is bad cuz its red. But it lived since 1970. And the music is calm unlike today's commercials (save for the Tootsie Roll Pop commercial, not the original 60s one, the 2004 remake with Mr. Owl only)
utubeguy35 1 year ago
Welp someone was walked away hungry. Cuz i wasnt alive before 1982. Screw you Hardee's for taking away Burger Chef.
utubeguy35 1 year ago
You gotta be middle-aged to remember this one. I was thirteen in 1970. We were poor and never got to go to Burger Chef. I don't even think we even had one of them in my town. The commercial brings back massive memories of tedious hous spent in front of a snowy analog tv dreaming about how everybody els in the world had Burger Chef every day after mornings spent inthe toy department of some big department store.
mysteria31 1 year ago
f*ck mcdonalds i want me some burger chef!
tilliez 1 year ago
@tilliez I love your comment I hope someone brings the Buger Chef back Iron on for T- sshirts and all
stevemtc1 1 year ago
I loved Burger Chef back in the 1970s. I also agree that TV commercials were nicer back then. TV commercials today are really obnoxious, too loud, too much screaming and blaring music...generally disgusting. No wonder people are more aggressive everywhere these days. A damn shame how times have changed for the worse.
68lincoln 1 year ago 2
Burger chef was really good. I worked in the Rumford Rhode Island store. No one on one ordering, During rush hours we waited on four or five customers at once. Burgers came down a chain driven rack and were broiled fresh. Pneumatic catsup and mustard gadget squirted it onto the bun that you pressed on it., One really good mass production setup actually
gk10002000 1 year ago
I'm not an American, but from what I heard the hamburgers at Burger Chef were Ways better than McDonnald's.
kzbxvz 1 year ago
Heinz calls it Ketchup and Delmonte calls it Catsup.
floooky1 1 year ago
That was Ronny Hinson, I think he wrote the Best Gospel Song ever, when he wrote "THE LIGHTHOUSE"
RonnieHinson 1 year ago
lol it was Spelled CATSUP until the Lawsuit with the Heinz`s, I read where Catsup or Ketchup was developed as a Wheel bearing Grease for Military Caisons & other wheels on Military equipment, They would stop the equipment ever so often to Grease the Wheels & Yell out "CATCH UP" (CATSUP) hmmmmmmmmm lol I found a bottle a year ago on a shelf in an ole` country store that read CATSUP, that stuff had to be OLD, it was only one bottle, I should have bought it as an antique, ROFL
RonnieHinson 2 years ago
Are you the Ronnie Hinson of the singing Hinsons?
aaleho0701 1 year ago
We find both spellings in Canada, depending on the brand.
It seems to me that the bulk product that restaurants and institutions use is more likely to be branded as Catsup, where as your Heinz and label products are Ketchup.
thegirl44 1 year ago
I remember that "Works Bar" Man! what memories! Such a shame they're all gone now. They were the original "Have it your way" that later Burger King stole the idea that you could have your burger made the way you wanted. After all these years I can still see this commercial and still remember the smell and the taste of those burgers, yum!
VirgilB01 2 years ago 2
I love the music. It's like a burger commercial for potheads...LOL
billyboylb 2 years ago 3
Girl shown working the counter at :30=Sissy Spacek? Maybe?
acirluster 2 years ago
Don't fall asleep in your Hamburger when we play this song! :D
madcapromanian 2 years ago
did he say catsup?
tonsoffunwwe 2 years ago
@tonsoffunwwe YEAH.
he sed " cat - sup "
That struck me as sounding odd when he sed catsup.
NOBODY sez catsup.
DancingSpiderman 2 years ago
Yup. And dressing! lol
flamingcurent 2 years ago
My brother's trying to tell me that Burger Chef didn't have onions on their hamburgers. Is he right?
nauort23 2 years ago
They had onions on them, later they had the "Works Bar" where you could build one yourself or you could let them put onions on it for you. I remember this as a kid, The "Super Chef" and the "Fun Meal" It was one of the best restaraunts in the world. Too bad it's gone now.
VirgilB01 2 years ago
I know there are bigger issues in the world, but I don't think Burger Chef had onions on their burgers. When we ate there as kids my mom complained that there were no onions on her burger. We kids were really embarrassed, but I definitely remember it being Burger Chef!!!
billyboylb 2 years ago
LOL!!! Whaddya MEAN, "bigger issues in the world!"??!?!? This settles the argument once and for all!! Unlike all the political ranting on YouTube. Thanks (to your Mom, too).
nauort23 2 years ago
One thing I noticed around the late 60's early 70's it seemed guys took to wearing those sweater shirts that looked like a short sleeve t shirt. Some had a high neck and were a nappy material. The Dad has on a white one in this ad.
TVDude78 2 years ago
If you could, would you go back to those days? I believe I would too. No air conditioning, crank windows, big V-8's one type of coke, we didnt worry about being skinny, and you could still go downtown to shop.
fixerupper1 2 years ago
This made me feel emotional & sad...the calm relaxing innocence of life then. :-( It's like seeing part of my childhood & I have woke from a long sleep & things have gotten worse. The BC in Winter Haven FL was quiet, never crowded...we seemed to have lots of room to live our sheltered lives unlike today which feels so much more harsh & chaotic. I remember the burgers having lots of shredded lettuce & being very mayonaisy. My Mom always seemed to have coupons from the paper.
garywrightny 2 years ago
We had a BC in Temple Terrace on 56th St just south of Busch Blvd for many years. Last I saw it was a bank. They had the top-your-own-burger bar and salad bar that mesmerized this 9 or 10 yr old (at the time.) I could put a dozen pickles on my burger and no one could say anything about it!
HGbunny 2 years ago
Well, why did you have to grow up and move away from Winter Haven then?
kneejerker 2 years ago
Kneejerker: Life in quieter in central FL then in NYC no doubt - but I also think that a lot of what I have expressed here is also there as well. :-P Things change & we can't go back or desire for that or else we can really be in a bad place. Don't u agree?
garywrightny 2 years ago
At Burger Chef, we just cant stand to see anyone walk away hungry...unless they dont have enough money of course! :-) LOL!
kjames32209 2 years ago
When this came out, charlie was coming out of tunnels and ambushing the big red one!
cantsdemort 2 years ago
Couple of things. The woman singing this has a beautiful voice but my goodness who could sit on top of the building like that? You would get arrested if you did that. I don't think anyone ever did that! Oh and those people riding up on a horse to get a burger?? Whats up with that? Is this Burger Chef out in the countryside? Sure looks like a lot of Chevy Caprice's in the parking lot though.
clemsonbloke 2 years ago
tematas and catsup?
BenCollinAndJacob 2 years ago
Normal people that speak english serving burgers?? Normal family type people eating burgers? WTF am I missing here. Nowadays dem burger places remind me of a zoo with ignorant non english speaking idiots behind the counter. Rip Van Winkle here. Just woke up after a 45 year sleep and the whole place has gone down the tubes.
TurtleDove38 2 years ago 3
Let me rock yer world, Racist Von Whitey -- we elected a bi-racial President since you were asleep.
kneejerker 2 years ago
Okay, whether I agree or disagree with the content of your message,"Racist Von Whitey" made me laugh.
HGbunny 2 years ago
@TurtleDove38 WTF am I missing? dem burgers? you seem like an ignorant non-english speaking idiot yourself
sepulthrax 1 year ago
The tune used in this commercial is a blatant rip-off of a song by a San Francisco group called Sopwith Camel. It was called "Hello Hello" and is nearly quoted verbatim here. I suspect they didn't receive one penny for it either. Shameless.
rualmuir 2 years ago
the difference is the tomato content..catsup has less than 40%TOMATO IN IT,.plus we lost in vietnam because people ate at burgerking instead of burger chef..seabrook n.h had a awesome burger chef rite next to the nuke plant.
regressing2apes 2 years ago
Yes! This IS why we ultimately lost in Vietnam! We chose to support the wrong hamburger franchise!
kneejerker 2 years ago
Hello hello, have you been smoking weed? Then one of our burgers, is just what you need.
fjccommish 2 years ago 3
Hello, hello.
mediamadman747 2 years ago 2
New comercials vs old comercials:
Old comercials from the late 1980s and back... people just looked like normal people.
New comercials from the Mid 1990s to present: Every character is horny and stupid motivating the American Culture to behave the same, purchase a product and feel happy for no reason...
Escalofrio111 2 years ago 35
I remember this commercial! I agree that commercials nowadays insult your intelligence. They don't even make the food in commercials look appetizing anymore!
bandibreath 2 years ago 12
That's because we in America are obsessed with being cool. It's ironic since we all can't be cool. I hate cool, I like normal.
Drivermatic 1 year ago
@Escalofrio111 You sure got that right.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
@Escalofrio111 There is actually a very good commerical running in the UK for KFC at present that focuses on the foood and features no celbs or anything horny.
FabFM 11 months ago
I remember as a kid seeing bottles of "Catsup" on grocery store shelves, along with the now standard "Ketchup". It was spelled "Catsup" and pronounced "Cat-Sup" which is totally weird today and was not the norm even back in the '50s and 60's "out west" where we lived. I wonder if that spelling/pronunciation is from some (other) region of the USA? I think I need to get a life, lol.
Ross4916 2 years ago
I remember they used to show old comedy movies like Laurel and Hardy on Saturday afternoons. Why I don't know?
berezin99 2 years ago
When McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy's were all coming out with the chicken sandwiches, Burger Chef came out with theirs, and it was the best! I miss their chicken club sandwich.
btbb10 2 years ago
does this place still exist today?
ItsyaboyAFizzle 2 years ago
Hardees absorbed Burger Chef in 1996. Certain Places such as The Roost in Baltimore use the old Burger Chef Buildings but, no it's long gone.
WayneAlexanderM 2 years ago
Actually, Imasco (which also owned Hardees) acquired BC back in 1982, with the last BC franchise holdout becoming a Pleaser's in 1996.
kneejerker 2 years ago
At age 9 or 10, 1972-73, we used to play in the woods and gather old bottles to get the 5 cent deposit per bottle. We found enough bottles for all three of us kids to all get FunBurgers, Apple Turnovers and Drinks. Who could beat a 25 cent FunBurger!!!!!
BurgerChefGuy 2 years ago
I remember this restaurant. It was actually prettty good. Too bad it's gone the way of the Do Do! Part of my childhood is gone. What a shame!
TBomb068 2 years ago
I remember Burger Chief back in 1981. The burgers were better then Mcdonalds.
vkoo32 2 years ago 2
Except for the guys in Malevolent Creation. They're fine.
PresidentBagel 2 years ago
In my town, the Wienerschnitzel is in a former Burger Chef building.
PSYCHEDELICDAISY 2 years ago
I drove thru BR and saw a weinerschnitsel....I thought they would have gone out of biz a long time ago...I still make homemade Polish sausage sandwiches.
danielion999 2 years ago
Yeah, we still have a Wienerschnitzel. It is a Wienershcnitzel/Tastee Freeze.
PSYCHEDELICDAISY 2 years ago
Catsup?
doobie4416 2 years ago 2
lol an old supermarket in my town ....still has the 'Catsup" sign on the conidment isle. LOL
supremes1964 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Americans are so primitive. eating with their FINGERS like monkeys..
Thank God I'm European. We are decent, civilized people. We eat from plates, with forks and knives. google these words-
voterpromoter 2 years ago
America makes me sick.
PresidentBagel 2 years ago
fucku canada sucks the biggest cock!!
sopaman1234 2 years ago
Bagels make me sick.
BLabelGuitarMan 2 years ago
fuck you raghead!!
sopaman1234 2 years ago
Is there still Burger Chef's in the world??
3kelley 2 years ago
nope, completely gone. R.I.P. The Chef
Fanik8 2 years ago
I have just started a bring back burger chef petition to sign the petition go to petitionspot d o t c o m/petitions/bringbackburgerchef I'm hoping to get enough signatures to send our petition to river west brands to let them know we support their fight against hardees and we love burger chef
odog65 2 years ago 4
anyone interested in reviving this place should e-mail river west brands site and let them know that you support them in their case against hardees and tell them I want my burger chef. and let hardees know that your mad and that they should requinlish any rights of it to see case go to wikipedia and search burger chef and click the first external link
odog65 2 years ago
CATSUP?...LMFAO
armybeef68 2 years ago
Pretty odd. Hardee's is now offering the " Big Chef " . Wha ?
ReneeNme 2 years ago
Many old Hardees are ex Burger Chef's. Possibly Hardees bought them out.
thesixtiesguy 2 years ago
Distinct possibilty. Our old Sandy's ( ever heard of em' ? ) from back in the late 60's early 70's later became where Hardee's is now located. Our Burger Chef became the new KFC joint that moved from across the street where they were located in an old school KFC building with the Colonel weather vane on top. Ah where has time gone ?
ReneeNme 2 years ago
lol....I just did a quick research on Sandy's restaurants and it turns out they were taken over by Hardee's. So yes, they probably more than likely DID take over Burger Chef. Ah the internet, what a marvelous invention by Al Gore.
lol. j/k
ReneeNme 2 years ago
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odog65 2 years ago
It was a real "treat" to get to go to any restaraunt & get fast food in those days.Burger Chef was our favorite.
vangard213 2 years ago 2
"Mommy, can we go to Burger Chef and get a FUN MEAL?!?!?!"
danielion999 2 years ago 3
I never ate in or saw a Burger Chef fast food joint or a Burger Chef commercial. I was born in 1972. I wish I did. I like the commercial and song.
snoochy2 2 years ago
Snoochy -- what a sheltered life. BC was operating well into the 1980s.
kneejerker 2 years ago
The images in this commercial are great, but the song seems uninspired (like too many other ad jingles from the 70's).....
tpledger 2 years ago
I think, perhaps, that after all the ruckus of the 60's, people we're kind of looking for more relaxed times, what with vietnam and assasinations, riots, etc.....
danielion999 2 years ago
We were still totally in Vietnam in 1970.
We should have just gone in heavy early on and taken over the North, it would have been over pretty quickly and so many lives would have been saved (much more than if we had never gone, b/c there would still have been a war).
jpowell180 2 years ago
wow, even the advertisments were smoking pot back then.
electricbamboo 2 years ago
Actually I think they spelled it Super Shef
monkeyfry 3 years ago