Old Nescafé Commercial with Margaret Draper

[hippobolak]

Haha, so persuasive...mmm...better....f­lavour....than.......ground...­..coffeeee..... Love how the guy reads directly off the prompt which makes his voice sound amusingly disjointed.

[AmethystNail]

DISLIKE ALL

from 9gag

[ccdesan]

@AmethystNail No worries. Nobody likes everything.

[tattoo576]

HELP!!!

I CANT FIND ANY BOILING WATER!!1one

[ccdesan]

@tattoo576 Well, you take a kettle... :P

[Wavedude21101]

@ccdesan Ok, what next?!?

[ccdesan]

@Wavedude21101 Yah, good question. Just waiting for the muse to strike and the free time to present itself...

[looneybun1]

..but she still had to go into the kitchen and boil the water first...just sayin' lol

[Ruiso1]

america's golden age, i wish it was like that now ...now all we have is a nuclear war with china to look forward to

[bearcub410]

you know the longer i look at this clip the lovely ladies dress looks like the dress bettie davis wore in all about eve so i guess this could have been 1950 or 51 but this is not 1940's ,thank you great clip

[CoolConejo]

@bearcub410 Yeah. Now they are a bunch of old Teabagger supporters hating on the younger peeps.

[bearcub410]

by the look of her dress looks like 1953 or 54 ?

[ccdesan]

@bearcub410 You an morelibations may be correct. See the revised notes. Mom looks too young to have it be the 50's, but until I have documentation I'm open to the weight of public opinion...

[ddr122]

@ccdesan Why do you just ask your mom? She's still alive...

[ccdesan]

@ddr122 I wish I could. She's 94, and supremely senile. At this point, I show her things that she's done and she neither remembers nor recognizes herself. But she can still sing a mean Christmas carol!

[morelibations]

early 1940's?

sorry this is late 1950's

[ccdesan]

@morelibations Incorrect. By the late 50's, instant coffee was a mainstay, and a commercial would not be teaching people about the concept. The Nescafe brand was introduced in 1938, and at that time was a novelty. The commercial refers to "New Nescafe".

[HoneydewLoveCosplay]

'There she is in the kitchen'

[RichGilly]

If you crank the volume just after 1:35 you can hear a voice say something really quiet and really fast. Can anyone make out what is said?

[slcycaga2020]

@RichGilly someone says take the drink or take some drink

[712colgate]

@RichGilly He says "Take another drink"

[grofys]

she didn't add very much water.

[maxrowley]

or "incorrect"...by the way most Austrians speak received English. That's why our classically trained actors sound the way they do. They don't all sound like 'Crocodile Dundee'. They have done a good job of portraying British Royalty along with a host of important American figures. The UK Norfolk City Council has published a booklet to inform people with English as a second language of the slang terms often used such as "The Bill" for police so they understand better.

[maxrowley]

Now that IS Toffee nosed. You will note that I am Australian and I also have access to Wikipedia. Who were we direct recipients of for our mutual language? You may have emptied the tea into Boston Harbour but you really can't in truth deny your roots.

If you have any doubts check out the Hawaiian flag. The Romans said "Not Angles but Angels"

[ccdesan]

@maxrowley Piffle. Not denying the roots at all - simply pointing out that the British did not create our language. It was simply another step along the historical pathway. Strine is about as common to the Queen's English as Alabama backwoods dialect; neither British nor Americans would understand "I'm real crook" or "Spit the dummy" without prior exposure. Hence, it's not accurate to state that the British invented English or that British spelling is "correct."

[maxrowley]

As the British created our language flavour is correct.

[ccdesan]

@maxrowley Haha. Can o' worms, anyone? In this country, "flavor" is correct and "flavour" is rather toffee-nosed, if you get my drift. For what it's worth, our language was created by Angles, Frisians and Saxons, their various West Germanic dialects forming Old English, of which the British were the beneficiaries. Flavor comes from Latin "flare" (blow, or puff) - "flator" is that which blows, or an odor. It is cognate with Old English "blawan". The "v" in flavor may be influenced by "savor".

[ddr122]

She's still alive!!! At 93 years old

[Sheri451]

LOL I heard "cut" too. Kitty HelloCat

[FoxHound109]

The best part is that it probably took her four hours to boil that water in the first place. Bahahahahahahaha!

[FashionedUp]

Men wearing suits while playing cards at home? A hostess? Wearing diamond dangle earrings a brooch and an evening gown at home? Boy we sure have slipped over the past half century. What happened to us?

[mSFoReVErYoUnG101]

"Flavour"? Isn't it "Flavor"??

[ccdesan]

@mSFoReVErYoUnG101 You'd think so. Back then, some folks thought that using the British spelling was more "posh".

[ObediahFults]

If that dress and hair style is from the 1940s, I'll eat my hat. It looks like mid-to-late '50s to me!

[KittyHelloKat]

that commercial was like a cooking show! the lady was like "..pour, mix, stir..." and at the end u can hear someone say "Cut" at the end!!! #LOL

[DalekQueen]

isn't this the same time that world war 2 happened? weird,kinda awkward to watch a commercial when you know whats really going on at that time.

[polkadotts22]

better....flavour....ground...­..coffee hahahahahaha

[xmadman31]

I think they took to long to get to the point of what they were advertising back then!

[MrUnidyne]

"Flavour"? Is this a Canadian commercial?

[ccdesan]

@MrUnidyne In the 40's, British spelling still persisted in some segments of the American ideolect...

[williamhdezTV]

Transcript failed at every Nescafé mention and almost every coffee mention... xD

[ccdesan]

@williamhdezTV Haha! A little distracted, are we? :D

[fazehead]

Better than thier Silly LOL adds now when Adds were watchable in Black and White.

[MechWizzard]

Must...Buy...Coffee....

Wizz.

[osue69]

Howdy el old lobo .

[dudemantwo]

Is this the 50's or 40's?

[siamiam]

hooray for Nescafe :)