Not so much Political Correctness as perhaps a little more sensitivity. Kellog's had to pull its "Cornfucuius Say" commercials with Homer and Jethro because of complaints from the Chinese community. Iron Rule of Advertising-you don't want to offend.
I never did like the taste of any artificial sweetener.......It always left an aftertaste that was horrible.....I would rather less real sugar or no sugar at all for that matter.....so I did buy the sugar kind and added extra water.........
I never did like the taste of any artificial sweetener.......It always left an aftertaste that tasted horrible.....I would rather less real suger or no sugar at all for that matter.....but I did buy the sugar kind and added extra water.........
The sad thing is cyclamates never really caused cancer. Anything force-fed upon those critters in the same amounts would cause cancer. It was actually lobbies and industry pressure that really forced the ban. Saccharine took over but tasted terrible. Cyclamates were the only sugar substitute that tasted decent. Diet Rite cola used to be my favorite. If they had never banned cyclamates, I would never have stuggled with weight or tooth problems!!
@JohnnyGNV I remember injun Orange being my favorite and when it first got changed over i got my mom to go through the food fair shelves to see if there was any "Injun" behing the "Jolly Olly"
Your right about the cyclamates but not the backlash against racial insensitivity - political correctness hadn't been invented yet. Injun Orange was the favorite flavor.
@29psalm Negative, it was full of a "new" artificial sweetener called "cyclamates". Cyclamates was banned in about 1968 cuz it caused cancer in lab animals. (after I drank a butt load of it). Cyclamates was replaced by Saccharin which was also later banned for causing cancer.
@monny287 When I was a kid our neighbor used to buy an artificial sweetner in a bottle, it was called Upper 7 or Upper 10 or something like that. It was practically pure cyclamates. It was a clear liquid in a clear plastic bottle, you could use it in place of sugar, in cereal and stuff like that. We drank it right out of the bottle.
I had a package of Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry until just a few years ago. Figured it would be lethal to make the stuff at that point... And, no, the commercials weren't banned, although they would be today with the Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry. They simply couldn't compete with Kool-Aid, so they became history. Personally, I liked it better than Kool-Aid.
if this sort of shit happened to me ie my drink mixes started to sing to me... but only when i wasn't looking at them i might go a bit mad. why does Chinese cherry sound female? also jolly ollie orange always looked cooler to me.
Screw political correctness! How about we just make one about everybody? Guido Grape, Injun Orange, Swings-both-ways Strawberry, Chinese Cherry, Lesbo Lime and Redneck Rasberry? Then, add Fatass Fruit Punch and Whitey Watermelon. Then, these things will fly right off the shelves!
Chinese Cherry doesn't even make sense. Drunken Injun would be a great drink for moms and dads. How about a Fruity Fruit with a guy in drag. Dark Chocolate Spook with a brown ghost on it?
I'm sure that Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry were named with no bad intent. This commercial was from the good old days of no PC Police. I remember Funny Face drink mixes. I was a kid, and their commercials made me laugh.
Chinese Cherry was replaced by Choo-Choo Cherry, a male character with a train engineer's hat. He never achieved the same respectability as Chinese Cherry.
The names of two of these drinks were changed because of consumer complaints. Injun Orange became Jolly Ollie Orange and Chinese Cherry became Choo-Choo Cherry. Pillsbury had to redraw the characters and recall all of the fruit drink envelopes.
It's the latter incarnations of the characters I remember (Lefty Lemonade, etc.). Y'know, if we spent half the time thinking about how to end our dependence on fossil fuels that we spent detailing these old marketing campaigns and dubious chemical sweetening choices, the world would be a better place. But it is with this video, too, so I'm conflicted...:-)
PC will be the death of us. It surprises me that there were any problems with this in the early 1960's. People in general hadn't gotten themselves mind-trained to think only "correct thoughts" quite yet. As a result: humor wasn't selective as it is today -- i.e. certain groups can't be made fun of (i.e. Muslims), while other groups are fair game (i.e. Christians) -- a la Comedy Central.
The cyclamate ban was a product of the sugar industry that was afraid of losing business. They injected pure cyclamate into mouse bladders as their experiment...
I remember this commercial as a kid and singing the jingle song. Mom bought these instead of Kool-Aid 'cause you had to put sugar in. Either it was too much or too little - so Mom was smart and bought Funny Face. I never compared a cherry flavour drink to an Oriental person though. But, that's all part of advertising marketing I guess. Back then that is ......
It seems to me around this time we drank a drink called Upper-10. It was chocked full of the new and healthy artificial sweetner cyclamates. No unhealthy and fattening sugar for us kids!! Those were the days.
Yes, Fresca can still be found--but it is now with a different form of sweetening--not saccharine like they had in the 1960s. It might have been a cancer causing agent--but it was DELICIOUS!
They were made with "sugar substitute" which my mother thought was healthier--especially for my hyperactive brother. Of course it was deemed as a cancer causing agent on two counts: the color dye and the saccharine. They also banned Fresca--which I loved!
I remember this commercial WELL!!!! as a young boy. It's ashame anymore today you can't say much of ANYTHING without being accused by SOMEONE of being a racist or slanderer. I sure do miss the old america i grew up in in the 60's :(:(:(:(
I guess even back then people were getting weird but if it were nowaday they would have to ban freckle face strawberry and also loudmouth lime coz it picks on freckled people and loudmouths what has happened to the world geez
I remember when this came out. The Injin Orange and Chinese Cherry were thought by some to be offensive and were changed to Jolly Ollie Orange and Choo-Choo Cherry.
Too young to remember the original orange and cherry stereotyped flavors, but I remember that line of drink mixes. We were strictly a Kool Aid household.
People are too sensitive about stuff that doesn't even matter like juice flavor characters. They should have had an italian character caled "guinea grape."
Wow. These things cause cancer and yet I'm still watching this and wondering if it tastes like Kool-Aid! They should bring these things back - minus the cancer-causing chemicals, that is!
I left a bag full of packets of FF drinks up in my mom's cabinet because she never tossed anything and they "belonged" there. I asked for them a couple of years ago. She had thrown them out about a week earlier - she was concerned that my nephew would poison himself.
I don't remember them being all too quick about replacing Injun Orange, and Chinese Cherry was around even longer.
I remember if you sent in a specified number of empty packets and a fee you could get a funny face drink stand. I remember loud mouth lime was later dropped and Lefty Lemon (hello, hello, hello!) was added. Guess the loudness was considered rude!
Donsharp, the "hello hello' hello" was done by Loud Mouth Lime .....it was just in a different commercial. Maybe Lefty did it, but I guarantee Loud Mouth did it first.....look around, you'll find it.
I used to drink these. I hate the way big companies give in to minority's demands. If I owned Pillsbury I would have said tough, we are keeping Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry!
Astroboy.....was it Loudmouth Lime that got dropped too? I mean lets be honest, Goofy Grape depicted what you said moreso than Loudmouth Lime. Actually the stuff was pretty good, but no wonder us kids from the late '50s and early '60s had a mouthfull of cavaties. Man, just about EVERYTHING was laced with some kind of sugar. Anybody remember "Lick 'M Maid?
@Kenoman29 - Sure, used to eat lik-m-aids all the time, especially around Halloween. Preferred Kool-aid to Funnyface after trying both. Raspberry, mostly. (showing my age) To avoid "sugar mess all over the kitchen", fill your pitcher over the sink. Am inclined to think the sugar thing is somewhat (not entirely) a BS scare because I've never had a cavity in my life. Natural sugar is probably better though.
sure do, the one with this thick stick of candy made of sugar and more sugar, Your lick the stick and get it wet then stick it in more sugar that came in a variety of flavors and color, Wasn't one of my favorites but still I remember. By the way, it still sells today but with less sugar or maybe a sugar substitute. Thank God for childhood memories, they can make one day, That's why I like watching these old pieces on You tube. Thanks who ever you are for posting.LOve
Hey fairfax....the stuff you are referring too....wasnt those things Pixie Stix?? I thought Lik m maid was like a packet about the size of a Kool Aid packet. Well, considering I'm trying to reflect about 45 years ago, I could be wrong. Man, 45 years ago I ate that junk. Oh man, LOL
I totally remember Injun Orange . Mom bought us all the flavors back in the day... I even have refridgerator magnets today of Lefty Lemon and ChooChoo cherry. ahhh, I miss the 70's!!!
Why do people put "BANNED" on these posts? It wasn't "banned". Ad agencies get changed marketing gets changed. You make it sound like "big brother" stepped in. Nothing of the sort.
@garymichael1950 My father owned a contract packaging company that packaged Funny Face Drinks. The names were changed because of complaints about Chinese Cherry and Injun Orange. Political correctness was just starting in the 60s.
i drank a whole pitcher of jolly olly orange with a bag of barbacue potato chips while watching a cincinnati bengals pre-season game, this was my first truly psychedelic experience!
They later changed the name for cherry to choo choo cherry and injin orange to jolly olly orange. Guess the originals were found offensive. Brings back memories though. Loved goofy grape
Actually the cancer scare was a questionable study in which cyclamates and saccharin were fed in very high quantities to lab rats. Saccharin wasn't banned. There was conspiracy talk that cyclamates had made a big dent into the sugar market. By comparison, Aspartame which does cause cancers in rats got approval after a phone call from Searle CEO and future AG Don Rumsfeld to Pres Reagan who fired the head of the FDA and replaced him with a Don R. handpicked Dr. who would approve it.
A handful of Whites complained, and so an array of characters representing some (but not all) of American culture morphed that cultural representation to become entirely White and delightsome. Meanwhile, we still have no clue as to what ten years of "Mom lets me drink all I want" cyclamates has done to our bodies, because of all the other things they dangled over our heads -- like Hepatitis C, HIV, and the other killers.
I remember they took FFD off the market for awhile and then brought back and then removed it again and Pillsbury sold it to another company that changed the images and added new flavors and the taste was not as good so I stopped drinking it!
I only wish this drink was still around. It was also good to know that three of the character's names got makeovers. I wasn't too fond of Chinese Cherry; I'm glad he was renamed to Choo Choo Cherry. The same with Injun Orange; he was renamed to Jolly Olly Orange. And Loudmouth Lime became Lefty LemonLime.
i AM a kid who grew up with funny face & even as an adult, what a crock of bullshit protesting injun orange & chinese cherry!!! & i have native american ancestry among otherzzz... LMAO at politrical correct MORONS.. mega thanx for hsaring this commerical of my youth :):):) alwayzzz dream~~~dare~~~dive!!!
We loved Funny Face! I remember we even had a set of plastic mugs shaped like the characters....I think you sent in empty envelopes to get them as a prize. It was ridiculous when they did away with cyclamates....based on studies that it caused cancer in rats, at levels like drinking hundreds of servings a day or something stupid like that.
I loved this stuff! Seeing this commercial reminds me of the hot summers in San Fernando Valley as a kid. I liked all the flavors except the strawberry.
Pre-sweetened without sugar...hmm. Sodium Cylamate, probably. That stuff was sweet as sugar but they banned it, they should bring it back because they found it's not a cancer causing additive like they thought.
Worst of all: I SENT IN FOR the FUNNY FACE RECORD: it had songs by all the characters - coming out late enough to have "Jolly Olly Orange" and "Choo Choo Cherry - AND "Lefty Lemon".
Cherry's song was "When I'm Down Around the Roundhouse You Will Know" sung to the tune of "She'll be comin' round the mountain.
Lemon's song was about baseball sang to the tune of "Yellow Rose of Texas"!
I remember all of this. I remember seeing "Chinese Cherry" for the first time and my dad saying "ooh - too chinky - they're gonna pull that one".
I also remember the cyclamate controversy - it spelled the end of the Funny Face crowd- although many diet sodas switched to saccharine or something like that.
Later, there were three NEW "ades" - more tarty, less fruity - something like "Sir Reginald Lemon" and a lime and an orange equivalent - all were characterized as WWI stunt pilots.
Replicate the flavour of 'cyclamate', via 'powdered Stevia extract', available in most 'Trader Joe's' stores; caution for those with cow's milk sensitivity as 'Trader Darwin's' 'Stevia Extract' contains 'lactose'. To replicate the flavour of the ' Funny Face' powdered drink-mix, combine similar flavoured 'Kool-Aid', and 'Lik-'em-Aid'. Sick Fun!
(Continued) Loud Mouth lime spouted off one to many times at Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry. R.T. Raspberry did 30 years of a life sentence for the shooting death of Loudmouth Lime in 1975. That was the murder that hastened the end of the Funny face gang.
Jolly Olly Orange has used his fame to fight for gay rightsfor many years. He and Freckle Face Strawberry have been in a long term, committed same-sex relationship.
Lefty Lemon Lime's arm went sour and he was sent down to the minors.
Injun Orange -- His old style stereotype was notwanted in Hollywood anymore. He couldn't get another gig except for standing in front of cigar stores. Died od Cihrossis of the liver in 1982.
Chinese Cherry -- Resented Choo Choo Cherry until the day he died. Chinese Cherry's ancestors built the very railroads that propelled Choo-Choo to Stardom.
It's dopey to expose kids to stereotypes of people. Even worse is censoring everything which MAY cause a constituency to get its knickers in a knot. This is even when half the nation supports a man whose preacher said "GD America". We've gone slap crazy.
If the product managers of Funny Face, etc are watching I want you to know you were great guys. You have the last laugh since there are small tubes of presweetened drink mix on my shelf. You had the right idea.
OMIGOD! We drank GALLONS of this stuff, along with "pre-sweetened" Kool-Aid, when we were kids. Remember cyclamates? Maybe that's why I'm bipolar today lol. Actually, as I recall, the cyclamates tasted better than saccharine, aspartame, and even Splenda.
This one worked for me I remember seeing the ad and immediately and unceremoniously giving Koolaid the gate. This and many other commercials were aimed at kids like me. The kind who would throw stuff "seen on TV" into the cart while shopping I guess I liked putting "moms" sugar in Koolaid.
Didn't they change the character of the lime to Lefty Lime? And I know that there isn't a word that rhymes with orange in the English language but Injin Orange?
Whats the bigger crime, a couple of, honestly, midly, if that, offensive cartoon faces, or the government allowing a potential carcinogen in a soft drink?You be the judge.
Funny noone said anything about the rootin tooin rasberry who was supposed to be some Texas gun totin white guy cowpoke type. Funny how these PC ninnie nannies started this PC crapola way back in the mid 60's, actually sooner, Amos and Andy, but these little ninnie nannie types running around all the hell over the place bitching about various things. I think they just need jobs or something. LOL
Cyclamates were banned in 1970 for the same reason they ALMOST Banned Saccharin in the 1980s, mainly because feeding Rats "Mega Doses" caused Cancer They fed the Rats the equivalant of something like 1000 times what an average Human Baing would ingest in a year! The reason they Didn't ban Saccahrin was because a Diabetic Advocacy Group threatened to sue if it were banned, and if they had won their Lawsuit Tobacco Products would have to be banned! Think about what would happen if that occured!
Yes, thousands died (off course, their deaths were utterly unrelated to their consumption of cyclamates.) Actually, whether "anyone ever died from drinking all those cyclamates" is unknowable. Highly doubtful, however.
I was a kid when these drink mixes were on the market. I loved the characters but, the drinks tasted so nasty and bitter. I've tried them all. If you also notice Pillsbury changed 2 of the characters the following year for reasons of racial steretypes. Injun Orange became Jolly Ollie Orange. Chinese Cherry became Choo Choo Cherry. Also later Loudmouth Lime became Lefty Lemon Lime.
Not so much Political Correctness as perhaps a little more sensitivity. Kellog's had to pull its "Cornfucuius Say" commercials with Homer and Jethro because of complaints from the Chinese community. Iron Rule of Advertising-you don't want to offend.
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I never did like the taste of any artificial sweetener.......It always left an aftertaste that was horrible.....I would rather less real sugar or no sugar at all for that matter.....so I did buy the sugar kind and added extra water.........
jpico1935 6 months ago
I never did like the taste of any artificial sweetener.......It always left an aftertaste that tasted horrible.....I would rather less real suger or no sugar at all for that matter.....but I did buy the sugar kind and added extra water.........
jpico1935 6 months ago
Cyclamates and saccharin ? If they had more dough they would still be around. You know like cigarettes.
henslin1955 6 months ago
WHERE IS LEFTY LEMON?!?
SsicTim 7 months ago
I think Injun Orange and Chinese Chery were changed within a year of Funny Face being introduced.
I think (I was a small tyke then) Funny Face came out in 1964, and that the changes to the names of the Orange and Cherry flavors were made in 1965.
altfactor 7 months ago
Has anyone else notices that at the beginning, Injun orange is 1st in line, but as they start singing their names goofy grape is 1st? Creeepy.
IamSuperMooMoo 8 months ago
The sad thing is cyclamates never really caused cancer. Anything force-fed upon those critters in the same amounts would cause cancer. It was actually lobbies and industry pressure that really forced the ban. Saccharine took over but tasted terrible. Cyclamates were the only sugar substitute that tasted decent. Diet Rite cola used to be my favorite. If they had never banned cyclamates, I would never have stuggled with weight or tooth problems!!
JanineC4 8 months ago
I definitely remember this from when I was a kid. (I'm 53 now.)
nanlisa 8 months ago in playlist 60s TV Commercials
I actually remember that Chinese Cherry became Choo Choo Cherry and that
Injun Orange changed to Jolly Olly Orange. I remember wondering why (I was a kid)
and I thought at the time that it "wasn't nice" somehow, sort of like calling another kid
names...but I mean, didn't we all do that as little kids to some degree?
JohnnyGNV 9 months ago
@JohnnyGNV I remember injun Orange being my favorite and when it first got changed over i got my mom to go through the food fair shelves to see if there was any "Injun" behing the "Jolly Olly"
decemberschild1217 3 months ago
Your right about the cyclamates but not the backlash against racial insensitivity - political correctness hadn't been invented yet. Injun Orange was the favorite flavor.
phillysusan22 9 months ago
Did they change the name of the orange drink to Jolly Ollie Orange?
die4tomarrow2day 9 months ago
I got called Freckle Faced Strawberry and don't consider it racist. Get off your pitty pot and stop calling everyone racist - we all are!
bass13mary 11 months ago
I use to put the powder on my hand, and lick the flavoring.
supermandisco 1 year ago
lol crackers will be crackers
JesterresteJ 1 year ago
Mom let him drink all he wanted because there's no sugar...but it was probably full of Red Dye #2...
29psalm 1 year ago
@29psalm Negative, it was full of a "new" artificial sweetener called "cyclamates". Cyclamates was banned in about 1968 cuz it caused cancer in lab animals. (after I drank a butt load of it). Cyclamates was replaced by Saccharin which was also later banned for causing cancer.
clintonearlwalker 11 months ago
@clintonearlwalker
That's reassuring. XD
monny287 9 months ago
@monny287 When I was a kid our neighbor used to buy an artificial sweetner in a bottle, it was called Upper 7 or Upper 10 or something like that. It was practically pure cyclamates. It was a clear liquid in a clear plastic bottle, you could use it in place of sugar, in cereal and stuff like that. We drank it right out of the bottle.
clintonearlwalker 9 months ago
I remember them.Saturday morning cartoons and this commercial!
littleyellowkite 1 year ago
Chinese Cherry was great with vodka...
TheAdultChild101 1 year ago 3
This kid sounds fucking thrilled to drink this shit.
thechairman123 1 year ago
I had a package of Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry until just a few years ago. Figured it would be lethal to make the stuff at that point... And, no, the commercials weren't banned, although they would be today with the Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry. They simply couldn't compete with Kool-Aid, so they became history. Personally, I liked it better than Kool-Aid.
falina2 1 year ago
@falina2
could have sold it as a collectors item
fatfoxclown 1 year ago
How do you think they did the effects back then
Dop122 1 year ago
But one thing nobody notices: Forget about cyclamates, to drink Funny Face, you had to mix it with dihydrogen monoxide.
impCaesarAvg 1 year ago 3
if this sort of shit happened to me ie my drink mixes started to sing to me... but only when i wasn't looking at them i might go a bit mad. why does Chinese cherry sound female? also jolly ollie orange always looked cooler to me.
Montork 1 year ago
This was not banned I saw this one a lot . We bought a lot of this stuff . More fun than cool aid..
heehaa99 1 year ago
I remember complaints about 'Goofy Grape' as being insensitive to those cognitivily impaired.
MxSxPx 1 year ago
Screw political correctness! How about we just make one about everybody? Guido Grape, Injun Orange, Swings-both-ways Strawberry, Chinese Cherry, Lesbo Lime and Redneck Rasberry? Then, add Fatass Fruit Punch and Whitey Watermelon. Then, these things will fly right off the shelves!
missmental 1 year ago
@missmental
Great idea maybe you should start a business.
MrTabby5000 1 year ago
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@missmental You better believe it
handinside 1 year ago
Chinese Cherry doesn't even make sense. Drunken Injun would be a great drink for moms and dads. How about a Fruity Fruit with a guy in drag. Dark Chocolate Spook with a brown ghost on it?
drbotanus 1 year ago
I'm sure that Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry were named with no bad intent. This commercial was from the good old days of no PC Police. I remember Funny Face drink mixes. I was a kid, and their commercials made me laugh.
ftsjr 1 year ago
Chinese Cherry was replaced by Choo-Choo Cherry, a male character with a train engineer's hat. He never achieved the same respectability as Chinese Cherry.
DCFunBud 1 year ago
The names of two of these drinks were changed because of consumer complaints. Injun Orange became Jolly Ollie Orange and Chinese Cherry became Choo-Choo Cherry. Pillsbury had to redraw the characters and recall all of the fruit drink envelopes.
harveyedit 1 year ago
THIS AD IS OFFENSIVE TO DESPERADOES.
horsesflu 1 year ago
@horsesflu alright rick
Montork 1 year ago
Wasn't Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry the President from 2000-2008?
WarrenPanto 1 year ago
@WarrenPanto i wish
Montork 1 year ago
Nope - they had to change at least one - complaints about "chinese cherry" and maybe injun orange
an early case of political correctness (tyranny with manners).
odanak100 1 year ago
Some pervert will be directed via tag to this video because he's looking for some Asian porn and see "Chinese Cherry".
elc1960 1 year ago
It's the latter incarnations of the characters I remember (Lefty Lemonade, etc.). Y'know, if we spent half the time thinking about how to end our dependence on fossil fuels that we spent detailing these old marketing campaigns and dubious chemical sweetening choices, the world would be a better place. But it is with this video, too, so I'm conflicted...:-)
50zcarsman 1 year ago
HOLY COW!!! another blast from the past.... my mom bought this stuff for us kids because she didn't want us HOOKED on Coke-a-Cola
terry1919 1 year ago
PC will be the death of us. It surprises me that there were any problems with this in the early 1960's. People in general hadn't gotten themselves mind-trained to think only "correct thoughts" quite yet. As a result: humor wasn't selective as it is today -- i.e. certain groups can't be made fun of (i.e. Muslims), while other groups are fair game (i.e. Christians) -- a la Comedy Central.
poser1X 1 year ago
The cyclamate ban was a product of the sugar industry that was afraid of losing business. They injected pure cyclamate into mouse bladders as their experiment...
sazji 1 year ago
I remember this commercial as a kid and singing the jingle song. Mom bought these instead of Kool-Aid 'cause you had to put sugar in. Either it was too much or too little - so Mom was smart and bought Funny Face. I never compared a cherry flavour drink to an Oriental person though. But, that's all part of advertising marketing I guess. Back then that is ......
MrChristian326 1 year ago
oxymoron pre sweeten without sugar
sharky5921 1 year ago
It seems to me around this time we drank a drink called Upper-10. It was chocked full of the new and healthy artificial sweetner cyclamates. No unhealthy and fattening sugar for us kids!! Those were the days.
clintonearlwalker 1 year ago
the pc police would have made hay out of mandarin orange and cherokee cherry, i suppose
ultrakool 1 year ago
Yes, Fresca can still be found--but it is now with a different form of sweetening--not saccharine like they had in the 1960s. It might have been a cancer causing agent--but it was DELICIOUS!
Trixiekitsch2008 1 year ago 2
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maybe the artifical sweetners have made him too retarded to read
gerryono 1 year ago
They were made with "sugar substitute" which my mother thought was healthier--especially for my hyperactive brother. Of course it was deemed as a cancer causing agent on two counts: the color dye and the saccharine. They also banned Fresca--which I loved!
Trixiekitsch2008 1 year ago
I just bought Fresca in the store today, I live in Canada
Maginel73 1 year ago
I remember this commercial WELL!!!! as a young boy. It's ashame anymore today you can't say much of ANYTHING without being accused by SOMEONE of being a racist or slanderer. I sure do miss the old america i grew up in in the 60's :(:(:(:(
welder541 1 year ago
I guess even back then people were getting weird but if it were nowaday they would have to ban freckle face strawberry and also loudmouth lime coz it picks on freckled people and loudmouths what has happened to the world geez
oldgapgoil 1 year ago
I remember when this came out. The Injin Orange and Chinese Cherry were thought by some to be offensive and were changed to Jolly Ollie Orange and Choo-Choo Cherry.
drjays1 1 year ago 3
I loved this stuff. You could send away for the cups that looked like the characters on the packs. I had them
boo112108 1 year ago
Omg . . . those characters are going to give me nightmares. . . And here I thought koolaid man was scary!!!!
lilla8216 1 year ago
wow, how racist. can I ask something? WHO THE FUCK CARES??? its cartoons, it was suppose to be cute and funny, not politically correct, jesus.
batcountryrabid 1 year ago 3
You tell 'em. All that PC shit makes me sad. It's the PC people who make us feel that the word "Mexican" is demeaning. Good job, ya stupid pukes.
SpudMills 1 year ago 2
Personally, I miss Fizzies.
Davidkevin 2 years ago 2
@Davidkevin ,
I always get Funny Face and Fizzies mixed up. I seem to remember Goofy Grape and Choo-Choo Cherry Fizzies. They came in individual foil packets.
SpaceboySixFour 1 year ago
Too young to remember the original orange and cherry stereotyped flavors, but I remember that line of drink mixes. We were strictly a Kool Aid household.
leroydubya 2 years ago
When I was a kid in the 60's, the orange funny face was "Jolly Ollie Orange" and the cherry was called "Choo-Choo Cherry"...
This must be one old commercial.
rookieninetynine 2 years ago
I forgot all about that stuff! It wasn't too bad as I recall.
Mosparx78 2 years ago
Aww this is such a cute commercial!
OurStarChristineDaae 2 years ago
Hell...I remember drinking the stuff as a kid.
Quasimodo1957 2 years ago
People are too sensitive about stuff that doesn't even matter like juice flavor characters. They should have had an italian character caled "guinea grape."
veganchemteacher 2 years ago 2
wooooow ....o.e american indian...asian too. >.> so...wrong the way they did that
NikkoOfThePinkRose 2 years ago
I busted a gut when the orange came at the end, that's a pretty bad commercial.
communistrecords 2 years ago
Mom lets me drink all I want.
ModGirl1967 2 years ago
Wow. These things cause cancer and yet I'm still watching this and wondering if it tastes like Kool-Aid! They should bring these things back - minus the cancer-causing chemicals, that is!
missmental 2 years ago
I left a bag full of packets of FF drinks up in my mom's cabinet because she never tossed anything and they "belonged" there. I asked for them a couple of years ago. She had thrown them out about a week earlier - she was concerned that my nephew would poison himself.
I don't remember them being all too quick about replacing Injun Orange, and Chinese Cherry was around even longer.
NJtoTX 2 years ago
I remember if you sent in a specified number of empty packets and a fee you could get a funny face drink stand. I remember loud mouth lime was later dropped and Lefty Lemon (hello, hello, hello!) was added. Guess the loudness was considered rude!
donsharp57 2 years ago
Donsharp, the "hello hello' hello" was done by Loud Mouth Lime .....it was just in a different commercial. Maybe Lefty did it, but I guarantee Loud Mouth did it first.....look around, you'll find it.
Kenoman29 2 years ago
I used to drink these. I hate the way big companies give in to minority's demands. If I owned Pillsbury I would have said tough, we are keeping Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry!
lizardsy 2 years ago 3
The Chinese one actually "gongs" too...that is awesome, heh heh. It really never occurred to people that that might be racist?
pruje 2 years ago
Wow, Political Correctness strikes again.
EpicDude86 2 years ago 3
ahh, this is golden.. thanks for posting!
cringevision 2 years ago 2
We had the whole collection of Funny Face drinking cups years ago. Now they're all gone. :(
OctoberWytche 2 years ago 7
@OctoberWytche So did we! :-) I remember this commercial. It was made with cyclamates.
loriloristuff 1 year ago
@OctoberWytche They sell them now on ebay.
supermandisco 1 year ago
They also dropped Loudmouth Lime because of objections that he depicted a mentally retarded character.
astroboy1960 2 years ago 5
Astroboy.....was it Loudmouth Lime that got dropped too? I mean lets be honest, Goofy Grape depicted what you said moreso than Loudmouth Lime. Actually the stuff was pretty good, but no wonder us kids from the late '50s and early '60s had a mouthfull of cavaties. Man, just about EVERYTHING was laced with some kind of sugar. Anybody remember "Lick 'M Maid?
Kenoman29 2 years ago 2
@Kenoman29 - Sure, used to eat lik-m-aids all the time, especially around Halloween. Preferred Kool-aid to Funnyface after trying both. Raspberry, mostly. (showing my age) To avoid "sugar mess all over the kitchen", fill your pitcher over the sink. Am inclined to think the sugar thing is somewhat (not entirely) a BS scare because I've never had a cavity in my life. Natural sugar is probably better though.
ksol1460 2 years ago
@Kenoman29
sure do, the one with this thick stick of candy made of sugar and more sugar, Your lick the stick and get it wet then stick it in more sugar that came in a variety of flavors and color, Wasn't one of my favorites but still I remember. By the way, it still sells today but with less sugar or maybe a sugar substitute. Thank God for childhood memories, they can make one day, That's why I like watching these old pieces on You tube. Thanks who ever you are for posting.LOve
fairfax17 2 years ago
Hey fairfax....the stuff you are referring too....wasnt those things Pixie Stix?? I thought Lik m maid was like a packet about the size of a Kool Aid packet. Well, considering I'm trying to reflect about 45 years ago, I could be wrong. Man, 45 years ago I ate that junk. Oh man, LOL
Kenoman29 2 years ago
lol thats horrible
sonicspeed10607 2 years ago
I still occasionally use the term "Loudmouth Lime"--I forgot about the cherry and orange flavors, though.
5883078 2 years ago 3
Injun Orange was good!
qoaa 2 years ago 2
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yo thats fuckn racialist yo.
solidkingcobra 2 years ago
Anyone remember some kind of chocolate drink that came in a whip cream type arosol can back in the 60s?
jeffpolara 2 years ago
@jeffpolara
It was called Jack Frost. We drank it straight from the can.
mareee1 2 years ago
Wow thanks I have been trying to remember that for years.
jeffpolara 2 years ago
As a kid I used to love the ending of this commercial with the now politically incorrect "Injun Orange" and "Chinese Cherry".
hudson501 2 years ago
The 70's commercials were better. "When you're hot, you're hot, you really got a lot, drink Funny Face!"
witchman67 2 years ago
I totally remember Injun Orange . Mom bought us all the flavors back in the day... I even have refridgerator magnets today of Lefty Lemon and ChooChoo cherry. ahhh, I miss the 70's!!!
shamrockviolet 2 years ago
Why do people put "BANNED" on these posts? It wasn't "banned". Ad agencies get changed marketing gets changed. You make it sound like "big brother" stepped in. Nothing of the sort.
garymichael1950 2 years ago 24
@garymichael1950 My father owned a contract packaging company that packaged Funny Face Drinks. The names were changed because of complaints about Chinese Cherry and Injun Orange. Political correctness was just starting in the 60s.
gsbkeys 1 year ago
Rolf chinese cherry!
LOl
isaacooo123 2 years ago
God, how I remember these drinks as a kid! They were great.
XMLarry 2 years ago
IF you noticed most kids in the 1960's ware stripped shirts, i did to. Check out other commercials,almost all of them have a kid in a stripped shirt.
1952kid 2 years ago
i drank a whole pitcher of jolly olly orange with a bag of barbacue potato chips while watching a cincinnati bengals pre-season game, this was my first truly psychedelic experience!
popartafterflash 2 years ago 4
I remember the later names. They were funnier anyway. Don't remember the racists ones at all.
pataphysician66 2 years ago
as if injun wasnt racist enough they had to make him look like an indian. lol
airbornman7 2 years ago
I'm sick of political correctness, We have to be told by the media that we are being racist and we comply.
darlena1956 2 years ago
Did anyone see the children's book that Julianne Moore was pushing this week on the Today show? Freckleface Strawberry......Wow, that's original!
rudyinthe505 2 years ago 3
They later changed the name for cherry to choo choo cherry and injin orange to jolly olly orange. Guess the originals were found offensive. Brings back memories though. Loved goofy grape
cattrac 2 years ago
psh these weren't half as offensive as "pickaninny" pear...
drphilthay 2 years ago 2
Remember they used clyclamate, which turned out to cause cancer.
imanerd36 2 years ago
Actually the cancer scare was a questionable study in which cyclamates and saccharin were fed in very high quantities to lab rats. Saccharin wasn't banned. There was conspiracy talk that cyclamates had made a big dent into the sugar market. By comparison, Aspartame which does cause cancers in rats got approval after a phone call from Searle CEO and future AG Don Rumsfeld to Pres Reagan who fired the head of the FDA and replaced him with a Don R. handpicked Dr. who would approve it.
Renshen1957 2 years ago
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eatraut 2 years ago
But surely Lefty Lemonade discriminates against Communists?
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FScottmvid 2 years ago
A handful of Whites complained, and so an array of characters representing some (but not all) of American culture morphed that cultural representation to become entirely White and delightsome. Meanwhile, we still have no clue as to what ten years of "Mom lets me drink all I want" cyclamates has done to our bodies, because of all the other things they dangled over our heads -- like Hepatitis C, HIV, and the other killers.
cliffwalkinfool 2 years ago
In the interest of political correctness, I propose a new flavor called Lesbian Lime.
cincyblows 2 years ago 12
Shouldn't it be Lesbian Lake Trout?
mike72988 2 years ago 2
@cincyblows how about Gaylord Grape
pictureisup1 1 year ago
@pictureisup1 Or Anal Retentive Apple, or Penis Colada, while we're at it?
elc1960 1 year ago
@cincyblows how about kweer kiwi?
nezpercenathan 1 year ago
@cincyblows Yeah--and how about Pedophile Punch.
handinside 1 year ago
I had a plastic Funny Face mug, too...wasn't there a watermelon flavor, too? Something like "Wild Out Watermelon"?
gablefan01 2 years ago 2
I remember they took FFD off the market for awhile and then brought back and then removed it again and Pillsbury sold it to another company that changed the images and added new flavors and the taste was not as good so I stopped drinking it!
Tazzman 2 years ago
It was "Wacky Watermelon" and it was my favorite flavor back in good ol' 1974 when I was ten and life was good, man!
toosdayam 2 years ago
Anyone else notice this,we all wore striped shirts in the 1960's. I did too!
1952kid 2 years ago
it wasn't banned kirkmach32 because of cyclamates. it simply stopped selling!
caesarcerf 2 years ago
This commercial was protested by left wing radicals because of the Lefty LemonLime character.
hawksapoozle 2 years ago
Goofy grape was my favorite, but I loved them all!!! I also liked Kool-aid, but that's still around.
dancer5612004 2 years ago
I only wish this drink was still around. It was also good to know that three of the character's names got makeovers. I wasn't too fond of Chinese Cherry; I'm glad he was renamed to Choo Choo Cherry. The same with Injun Orange; he was renamed to Jolly Olly Orange. And Loudmouth Lime became Lefty LemonLime.
kachoo2135 3 years ago
i AM a kid who grew up with funny face & even as an adult, what a crock of bullshit protesting injun orange & chinese cherry!!! & i have native american ancestry among otherzzz... LMAO at politrical correct MORONS.. mega thanx for hsaring this commerical of my youth :):):) alwayzzz dream~~~dare~~~dive!!!
IrelandCladdagh 3 years ago 2
Injun orange and Chinese cherry are questionable, but i'm more offended by that white kid who can barely read.
Jaquebaul 3 years ago
We loved Funny Face! I remember we even had a set of plastic mugs shaped like the characters....I think you sent in empty envelopes to get them as a prize. It was ridiculous when they did away with cyclamates....based on studies that it caused cancer in rats, at levels like drinking hundreds of servings a day or something stupid like that.
tooslimnc 3 years ago 2
I don't see how this is racist.
It's just poking fun at the things that make us all individual and interesting.
TheShoeOfMattie 3 years ago
i'm with u. it is just harmless fun.
Arinel1 3 years ago 2
me three & I grew up on Funny Face drinks ahhh memories!
bigg3469 2 years ago
I loved this stuff! Seeing this commercial reminds me of the hot summers in San Fernando Valley as a kid. I liked all the flavors except the strawberry.
Pre-sweetened without sugar...hmm. Sodium Cylamate, probably. That stuff was sweet as sugar but they banned it, they should bring it back because they found it's not a cancer causing additive like they thought.
kirkmach32 3 years ago
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That's so racist
JVilla1009 3 years ago
Worst of all: I SENT IN FOR the FUNNY FACE RECORD: it had songs by all the characters - coming out late enough to have "Jolly Olly Orange" and "Choo Choo Cherry - AND "Lefty Lemon".
Cherry's song was "When I'm Down Around the Roundhouse You Will Know" sung to the tune of "She'll be comin' round the mountain.
Lemon's song was about baseball sang to the tune of "Yellow Rose of Texas"!
nycruise 3 years ago
I remember all of this. I remember seeing "Chinese Cherry" for the first time and my dad saying "ooh - too chinky - they're gonna pull that one".
I also remember the cyclamate controversy - it spelled the end of the Funny Face crowd- although many diet sodas switched to saccharine or something like that.
Later, there were three NEW "ades" - more tarty, less fruity - something like "Sir Reginald Lemon" and a lime and an orange equivalent - all were characterized as WWI stunt pilots.
nycruise 3 years ago
"Too chinky" -- your Pop sure was an enlightened one.
kneejerker 2 years ago
Thank You For Posting;
Strange Nostalgia for flavor as follows;
Replicate the flavour of 'cyclamate', via 'powdered Stevia extract', available in most 'Trader Joe's' stores; caution for those with cow's milk sensitivity as 'Trader Darwin's' 'Stevia Extract' contains 'lactose'. To replicate the flavour of the ' Funny Face' powdered drink-mix, combine similar flavoured 'Kool-Aid', and 'Lik-'em-Aid'. Sick Fun!
Cheers!
Valkyrie Ziege Mourne
12Zwolf 3 years ago
(Continued) Loud Mouth lime spouted off one to many times at Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry. R.T. Raspberry did 30 years of a life sentence for the shooting death of Loudmouth Lime in 1975. That was the murder that hastened the end of the Funny face gang.
Jolly Olly Orange has used his fame to fight for gay rightsfor many years. He and Freckle Face Strawberry have been in a long term, committed same-sex relationship.
Lefty Lemon Lime's arm went sour and he was sent down to the minors.
lklklklklklk44444 3 years ago
After the Funn Face fame ended:
Goofy Grape -- Serious mental issues. committed suicide in 1978.
Injun Orange -- His old style stereotype was notwanted in Hollywood anymore. He couldn't get another gig except for standing in front of cigar stores. Died od Cihrossis of the liver in 1982.
Chinese Cherry -- Resented Choo Choo Cherry until the day he died. Chinese Cherry's ancestors built the very railroads that propelled Choo-Choo to Stardom.
lklklklklklk44444 3 years ago 3
It's dopey to expose kids to stereotypes of people. Even worse is censoring everything which MAY cause a constituency to get its knickers in a knot. This is even when half the nation supports a man whose preacher said "GD America". We've gone slap crazy.
If the product managers of Funny Face, etc are watching I want you to know you were great guys. You have the last laugh since there are small tubes of presweetened drink mix on my shelf. You had the right idea.
wkat950 3 years ago 2
Aboriginal orange?
First Nations Orange?
Southeast-Asian Cherry? (Come to that, "cherry" has sexual connotations, so we can't use that.)
Oh hell. Let's just ban the commercial.
P.S. in Canada, all products have bilingual labels. I remember Goofy Grape was called Rigolo Raisin.
ferociousgumby 3 years ago 2
Aside from the cyclamates -- was insensitive to Injuns and Chinks.
luddrum 3 years ago
i did'nt drink it but i'd like to know it was around now instead of kool aid- i envy those who had fun drinking it
mrhugefan 3 years ago
I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS STUFF TILL NOW! We drank this all the time and I remember this commercial. Thank you so much for posting it!!
melaniestevens 3 years ago 3
OMIGOD! We drank GALLONS of this stuff, along with "pre-sweetened" Kool-Aid, when we were kids. Remember cyclamates? Maybe that's why I'm bipolar today lol. Actually, as I recall, the cyclamates tasted better than saccharine, aspartame, and even Splenda.
mrsmagloo 3 years ago 2
Hi, mrsmagloo
I thought you might enjoy watching this trailer for a new Funny Face show. I certainly would have watched it when I was a kid!
Enjoy.
- Mickilas
mickilas 3 years ago
so y wuz it banned?
cuneydandjoshsshow 3 years ago
Injun Orange looks like he's supposed to be some sort of demonic monstrosity...with his gaping maw of spiked teeth.
mardeninthegarden 3 years ago
And the very first thing you see in the video is a giant penis.
YourWaiter 3 years ago
This one worked for me I remember seeing the ad and immediately and unceremoniously giving Koolaid the gate. This and many other commercials were aimed at kids like me. The kind who would throw stuff "seen on TV" into the cart while shopping I guess I liked putting "moms" sugar in Koolaid.
Didn't they change the character of the lime to Lefty Lime? And I know that there isn't a word that rhymes with orange in the English language but Injin Orange?
Mr.Koolaid I'm sorry
louiemanno 3 years ago
Don't feel so bad...Mrs. Koolaide left him for Choo-Choo Cherry.
RexNunc 3 years ago 3
creepy as hell!
DazzleGlow 3 years ago
It may have been pulled from the tele pretty quick, but it was'nt THAT quick....it was on long enough for me to remember it pretty well.
maxeythecat 3 years ago 2
I have a feeling it would have been "Prohibition" all over again, only WORSE!
ThunderheadVoyage 3 years ago
This looks like it came out of someone's bad dream, I would've hated to be the kid in that commercial.
animegal2686 3 years ago
How about Wampum Whiskey Flavored?
johnrocker69 4 years ago 2
Whats the bigger crime, a couple of, honestly, midly, if that, offensive cartoon faces, or the government allowing a potential carcinogen in a soft drink?You be the judge.
SidNightWalker 4 years ago
Dontcha think that people who bitch about these types of things just need, ohhh I dunno, maybe jobs?
starVol 4 years ago 4
Yes. Bingo. You nailed it!
ToonORama 4 years ago
why was it banned?
kablammus 4 years ago
Racial profiling I guess since Orange Indian and Chineese Cherry were replaced later on.
frankothemountain 4 years ago
Funny noone said anything about the rootin tooin rasberry who was supposed to be some Texas gun totin white guy cowpoke type. Funny how these PC ninnie nannies started this PC crapola way back in the mid 60's, actually sooner, Amos and Andy, but these little ninnie nannie types running around all the hell over the place bitching about various things. I think they just need jobs or something. LOL
starVol 4 years ago 3
Cyclamates were banned in 1970 for the same reason they ALMOST Banned Saccharin in the 1980s, mainly because feeding Rats "Mega Doses" caused Cancer They fed the Rats the equivalant of something like 1000 times what an average Human Baing would ingest in a year! The reason they Didn't ban Saccahrin was because a Diabetic Advocacy Group threatened to sue if it were banned, and if they had won their Lawsuit Tobacco Products would have to be banned! Think about what would happen if that occured!
ThunderheadVoyage 4 years ago
"No sugar added", but, did anyone ever die from drinking all those cyclamates?
JoeT13 4 years ago
Yes, thousands died (off course, their deaths were utterly unrelated to their consumption of cyclamates.) Actually, whether "anyone ever died from drinking all those cyclamates" is unknowable. Highly doubtful, however.
kneejerker 2 years ago
I remember the commercial and the drinks- nasty.
Krewcible 4 years ago
hah! people are so politically correct these days. Chinese Cherry?? Indian Orange?? that commercial wouldnt even make it to Television.
tkatie99yahoo 4 years ago
"Injun"... lol -
You can't even say "Indian" anymore.
001bf 4 years ago
How about "Native American Nectarine?"
4a8p9x 4 years ago 4
I was a kid when these drink mixes were on the market. I loved the characters but, the drinks tasted so nasty and bitter. I've tried them all. If you also notice Pillsbury changed 2 of the characters the following year for reasons of racial steretypes. Injun Orange became Jolly Ollie Orange. Chinese Cherry became Choo Choo Cherry. Also later Loudmouth Lime became Lefty Lemon Lime.
Divavette 4 years ago
What's odd is that I've, shall I say, "seen" (I'll leave it at that or the geek