Um Bongo!

[TheMarrification]

But do they ACTUALLY drink this in the congo?

[skwanderer69]

um bongo tastes crap

[CymroGoch]

Um Bongo, Um Bongo, niggers drink it in the Congo was what they were really thinking.

[AcidGuardianPT]

So what does Um Bongo mean? I thought it was portuguese but turns out the brand is english lol

[thesunreport]

@AcidGuardianPT ..it doesn't mean anything...it's a made-up phrase, which is pretending to sound African. ; )

[BuddyFantastic]

Couldn't get away with doing this sort of advert now, with mock african accents. I think the chicken firm Sun Valley back in the 90's got into trouble when a "blacked up" chef said Very Goody Goody in a mock asian accent in one of their adverts

[utrapzab]

@BuddyFantastic THINK WHAT THEYD DO TO KIA ORA!!!! best advert of my childhood but that would have been so banned thesedays

[BuddyFantastic]

@utrapzab Oh aye. tis all change these days. Loved the KIA-ORA advert too

[TheHasselBoff]

I used to drink this when I was little and I bought some or my little brother and I tried it; it doesn't taste anything like it used to; probably cos any kids brought up in the nineties were hooked on sugar and artificial colours, bring them back dammit!

[hamster700]

call it monkey juice in states

[Applemask]

We're living it up in the jungle drinking Um Bongo

We're living in a highrise mud hut drinking Um Bongo

The lions and the tigers and the hippos too

Alligator rocks with a Zulu drinking Um Bongo

Plenty of anger in Rwanda drinking Um Bongo

While the little kids are playing with the landmines drinking Um Bongo

The aid that you paid for never got through

Machete in the hand of a Hutu drinking Um Bongo

[Bollocks681]

@pornandfighting i used to do that a lot when i was at school years ago, i was getting some right bollockings from the teachers.

[pornandfighting]

mate this tasted so good back inthe dayy!! plus you could stamp on the carton and make a haneus bang afterwords

[jessicalwilstead]

I always used to have this to go on school trips and I still love it! And still to this day whenever I say "um" if I'm not sure about something, my parents finish it with "bongo?" Gotta love the um bongo as they do drink it in the congo!

[ediblemedal]

it's better then secks![slogan]

[LeithMusic]

this stuff made my stomach turn, even though I wanted to enjoy it.

[XBbongo]

lol lol quality product...............umbongo by xb-bongo lol

[vangelicism]

I love um-nongo, so nice...

[luckycharmsmilk]

um bongo um bongo they drink it in the congo.... even though its made in summerset in england.....hmm? interesting?

[oakesy68]

um bongo um bongo it make ur guts go wrongo stick to meths

[gtapsyco]

ITS NOT IN THE UK! i should know i live there (here)... they sell it in "The Congo"

[Doomsday2060]

UM BONGIDY BONG BONG IN MY PANTS

I expect that advert is classed as racist now or something like that

[hank3rox]

The Congo used to be the cradle of civilization; then they invented Um Bongo & by mid-afternoon the whole place had descended into madness & war.

[Riptor552]

Meth. Not even once....

[robaffleck1]

Used to love the taste, unfortunately it used to give me Ebola.

I'd hate to think what was in it.

[piepartyzena]

I always though it was "the monkey ate the hippo and mummy ate Um Bongo". To be fair, I was only like 5 when I saw it on tv.

[kikine05]

Love it! <3 :)

[hank3rox]

niiiiiine fruits. I suppose they just forgot to mention the thoooouuuusand chemicals :-)))

[amoldauer]

you put your left arm in, your left arm out, in out in out you shake it all about u do the okey cokey and you turn around thats what its all about

[Kyruis]

You can DLed the song from the official Um Bongo! website.

[ks1231231]

back im the days when british sweets and drinks got you HIIIIIIIGH as a kite, they are all "reduced sugar" " no artificial colours or flavouring"now..kids these days wont know what decent sweet were like!!

[Kyruis]

@ks1231231

Not all of them did. I couldn't have Skittles, Smarties & Coke though.

[BSacchetti13]

Way down deep in the middle of the Congo,

A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango.

He stuck it with the others, and he danced a dainty tango.

The rhino said, "I know, we'll call it Um Bongo"

Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.

The python picked the passion fruit, the marmoset the mandarin.

The parrot painted packets, that the whole caboodle landed in.

So when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the jungle,

They all prefer the sunny funny one they call Um Bongo!

[gibblesmorrison]

Is portugal in the congo?

[trimmytrab]

Fuckin quality question

[BSacchetti13]

No, the Congo is in Africa...

[lisungicleo]

what a question....

[vegunited06]

1 sip of this stuff is instant death!! 11grams of sugar in 1 carton.

[gaurdianofsakura]

@vegunited06 ah the good old days

[Leogriffen]

the only words i understood out of that was "NEIIIINNE fruits" at the end

[k9nshorty]

when this add used to come on tv it used to shit me up coz it was so loud UM BONGO

[trimmytrab]

Um Bongo was fuckin muck, worse than Sunny Delight, no wonder this inspired the E-Generation what with the amount of chemicals in the shit.

Was tasty however.

[robuk1981]

@trimmytrab

at least in the 80s we could drink and eat our chemicals without labour breathing down our necks

[sjclassics]

this was a really nice drink pity I cant get it any more

[robinbeirne]

lol, youtube recomended me this.. they know me too well.. im sort of worried

[TheBongobert]

TUNE!!!!!

[SUICIDEC0MMANDO]

we have um bongo in portugal ^^

[tokando69]

i remember this song being better

[XNo1XLuvzXMeX]

I want Um Bongo back!

x

[MegaWayneD]

They've brought it back - unfortunatly it's foul! Doesn't seem to have ANY of the original ingredients.

[MissFangs666]

I seen some yesterday while shopping and was so excited (lol) then tried it and i could have vomited as it tasted gross lol. Bring the original Um Bongo back , Kerrie xxxx

[alanpartridge2008]

years ago i told a friends little brother um bongo was made from squashed monkeys and hippo piss....he cried for ages.i was a cruel child

[eclectica1]

LOL...you sick puppy!!!!!!!!! Funny though...

[keiko909]

@alanpartridge2008

lmfao!!

[themanmaschine]

@alanpartridge2008 PMSL! 

[BrownIndieKidd]

i loved um bongo but it's gross now wooo

[OldSchoolRasslin]

The Um Bongo factory in the Congo has closed down :(

[lulzandglory]

ITS BACK

[SWF90]

i'm drinking a carton now lol, but it just doesnt taste the same as it used to be, the food police have probably removed all the E numbers and artificial flavourings from it which is a shame cause i used to love it as a kid.

[PhilM3t4l]

WHERE DID YOU GET IT!????

[safari1610]

Unbelievable - how sad is it that it was my party piece back in the mid '80's that I had memorised the words to this advert and used to entertain my classmates with a rendition of it at break time (!) ...sad...sad...sad...!?

[abhard6]

Great advert, but fucking horrible drink!

[jtcfc]

mate - totally agree

[gemzcrawffie]

omg i haven't seen this advert in yeeearrss how fun =]

[jakemyers2]

they had 2 taje this of for being racist or something like tht

[2FunnyVersionIII]

Oh damn! This advert brings back good, tasty, refreshing memories!

[butcherofbielawa]

remember buying a pack of 6 cartons for a quid in pound stretcher few years back lol thought it was bargain of the century

[DreamCreamQueen]

Um Bongo was a treat for school trip packed lunches <3

[aciddoll]

Um bongo only has 3 fruits in it now, im so sad.

[marioman28]

WHERE CAN I BUY UM BONGO!!!!!!!!!

[aciddoll]

Waitrose (:

[MrTunaTown]

@aciddoll

In the Congo

[jamesharvey]

The congo. Weren't you listening?

[MrTunaTown]

@marioman28

In de Congo

[zepareace]

@aciddoll: Are you saying they have changed Un Bongo? That's purest of evil!

[Mackem33]

I have just returned from a diplomatic trip to the Congo and I can testify that at no point did I see anyone drinking Um Bongo

[garishyellowshirt]

That can't be true...

The advert...

What else could they drink in 'Da Congo'?

[CUNTENFUCKER]

@Mackem33 BLASPHEMER

[eisemanrenyardjake]

@Mackem33 I read this in the Viz letters page about 2 years ago.

[kingdomofdalriada]

@Mackem33 Um Bungo, Um Bungo they rape them in the Congo.

[asdfzxcv2009]

@Mackem33 they do sell it there, dunno if they actually drink it.

google this

gabriel congo um bongo speechless

[Tarmack002]

ahem.....this is from the mid-80's....you can recognise the bright flashy colours and 'electric light'

this is an advert from when the rest of the world ADMIRED america

[LukeFrench01]

Dude, how many rocks have you been smoking??????

[Tarmack002]

sorry, do you want an arguement over the worlds opinion on america?

or were you just complaining about the 80's comment?

[LukeFrench01]

well...how can this be an 80's commercial when there is a URL given at the end?

[flux0deamon]

this advert was from 1999 because they released an new flavor called um ognob this was the same ad from the 80's but with a different end to advertise the new flavors

[czechtomik]

what year was this???

[custardaghost]

1982-ish

[recognitiondesigns]

Did they have a website in 1982 too?! They got that registered quick!

[deanwebley]

If they drink Um Bongo in the Congo......what do they drink in Turin?

[manns101101]

mandarin

[TableWolfMusic]

You have a very shroud sense of humour.

[manns101101]

nice! Anybody else wanna kick in with some turin jokes :-)

[custardaghost]

You're in!

[matthewstevenhunt]

My mate is from the Congo and he's never heard of this drink.

This advert makes an outrageous claim that they drink it in the Congo!

[niceserb]

Grow some balls and get a fucking life you boner. The government should enforce the death penalty for people with no brains.

[matthewstevenhunt]

That'd result in you being condemned to death.

[footycrazy123456]

Are you always a boring twat?

[tombaxter22]

pc eh

[footycrazy123456]

I should add that my previous comment was to matthewstevenhunt.

[MHCLANPS3]

I loved this drink when I was a kid lol

[ColumRogers]

Brings back memories.

[xiiloveyouux]

how is thaa Kia-Ora advert racist ?

[MattyCBeatz]

HA. Love this shit.!

Wanna Laugh...

/watch?v=ikCZF1NaW5w

[chilled99]

I'm quite sure now I'm older that they don't drink Um Bongo in the Congo. Far from it.

[Jez32uk]

Everything was better in the eighties , I want to make a drink mixed with Um Bongo, Five Alive And Kia Ora all sloshed down with R Whites lemonade

[jamesharvey]

And then take the doors off their hinges and paint yourself white to prepare for a nuclear attack! And close down a mine! The 80's were so rad!

[Jez32uk]

man, what a Robert Killjoy Silk!

[jamesharvey]

Look, when you say stuff like 'everything was better in the eighties' you undermine the genuine hardships people like my parents and yours went through during that time. It's a shit thing to say

What you really mean is 'everything was better when you were a kid', which is probably true for a lot of people.

[Jez32uk]

has this guy got Rodimus Prime shoved up his ass?

[NikiPaprika]

I used to love that drink! XD

[utterutternutter]

One of the best advert songs of all time.

[gafurio]

That's some good old fashioned colonialism.

[TALIBANBOYOreturns]

not really.... just pc cunts like you ruining it for everyone.... if they make an african advert parodying the queen are they being racist? What the fuck is wrong with stupid cunts like you?

[gafurio]

As for an African advert parodying the queen? Sure, that could be racist. But parody is not inherently racist anymore than is the use of African animals in a juice advert. It's all in the execution.

[skullmonk3y]

you sir are an arse.

Why not whinge about kiaora aswell? fucking PC nazi cunt.

Go suck the fun out of something else why dont you.

[gafurio]

Please note also that I did not say that the Umbongo advert was racist. Kia Ora, however, is unequivocally and stunningly racist.

[skullmonk3y]

why exactly? because it shows a cartoon african kid and cartoon crow singing about a juice drink? what sort of racial offense does that cause? Cant we have african cartoon characters anymore without some middle aged white guy taking offense on my behalf?

If you are genuinely offended by that then I bet you had a bloody heart attack when the jungle book came out, and im willing to bet you practically wet yourself with rage when watching Brer rabbit.

Get a life you pathetic little man.

[666gothicbunni666]

Unfortunatley, there are people in the world who find something as simple as an African boy on an advert for orange juice racist :(

It's sad that we now live in a society where everything is classed as either politically incorrect or racist.

I personally saw nothing racist about the Kia Ora adverts. :D And as far as I'm concened people need to stop being so stuck up, get their heads out of their own arses and develop a sense of humor

[BboyFiZiX]

oh sod off

[gafurio]

If someone told me that some cherished icon of my childhood was racist, I would either provide an articulate refutation or have the balls to accept it, but I wouldn't resort to childish name calling.

In any case, the tone and implication of your replies suggests you have more in common with Hitler and his minions that do I.

It's not PC to attempt to do better than we have in the past, nor to point out past failings.

But if pointing out racism makes me a nazi cunt, I can live with that.

[parth2468]

THOMAS ON SKINS

[jennytablina]

I used to love it but then they got all health concious and it now takes like lame concentrated fruit juice : (

[groove19892003]

Dentists should give that stuff away free; it would double if not tripple their trade!

[cold2hold]

They just dont make em like they used too...

good memories!

[skistar123]

"Um-Bongo Um-Bongo, they drink it in the Congo" is a classic line from my childhood! I used to love it when this advert came one!

[RebeccaOrBecki]

This is rather cool :)

[chillibow95]

soz bt ki-ora is still the best!

[mbeat28]

does anyone remember um ognob? it was um bongo with the ingredients mixed differently. it was great but i seem to be the only one that remembers it. please google it people and prove that i'm not mad!!!

[6BitterReality9]

I remember it!

:D

[mbeat28]

yay i'm not mad!!! thought i'd imagined it!!!

[Rosestar4208]

I loved it more than um bongo, my brother remembers it and my uncle used to buy it in bulk he was addicted :P

[mbeat28]

i'm addicted to wham bars and highland toffee bars. they're grrrrrrrreat!

[bass27check]

Highland Toffee bars! Your comment caused me instant regression to when I had my first one. It was free on the cover of the Beano. Must track one down.

[danthebrit]

So you love um bongo more than um bongo ? LOL

[Rosestar4208]

no i loved um ognob more than umbongo

[nomie2005]

I used to love this drink when i was young.

I drink it sometimes nowadays, but it just doesnt taste the same =[

[AndyPhelan]

9 fruits?? Jesus Christ, what a drink!! :D

[VanVragor]

this advert was part of my childhood.

[mattdawes6996]

6 cartons for £1 in asda, no longer 9 fruits though lol

[Aileeneurydice]

It tastes awful, though. There's too much banana in it now.

[VenusHeadTrap]

A congo cocktail of nine fruits!! XD

[Kezipoo]

well obv they dont drink it in the congo

ITS CALLED ADVERTISING?!

it wa sjust a rhyme lol

[WatchRyder]

Wrong! They actually sell this in the Congo, a contractor I know wrote into FHM magazine with a photo of him, um bongo in hand, sailing down the congo river.

Proving that they actually do drink it, down in the congo :D

[ijk9999]

i know someone from congo, and he tells me, no one drinks um bongo there theyve never herd of it, a little politically incorrect by todays standards i guess

[AMill1994]

Cool advert.

[cathuurrnx]

OMW. BRING IT BACCK!!!!

[bragtheface]

jesus christ this was tasty however someone told me it was shut down due to a shit load of crap in it or something haha

[MFAtlas]

It's in tesco too

[JuVids]

i so didnt know it was taken away from the market.. in portugal its as famous as ever.

[elflinto117]

BRING BACK UM BONGO!

[TiMeCapsule123]

I could be wrong, but i'm sure U can still UM BONGO from some places, but i would love it if the ad was on TV.

[PlavOciZena]

those were the days

[HyperVoldo]

...=D

[fuddyboi]

such a great advert for such a nasty drink

[RadioactiveBlood08]

r u kidding?! it was DELICIOUS and had no artificial additives.

[DAVEYBOND007]

I used to work in Pointe Noire in the Congo and I can asure you they Congolese dont drink Um Bongo! Infact the Drink Ngok Beer!

[mollly98456]

seriously where can i buy Um Bongo??

i've been looking for it everywhere.. it's disappeared or something :(

[thealbinolion]

Yeah, They've taken it off the market.

Um Bongo was taken off the market early 2000 for some reason, I think one of them was spiked with cocaine in the factory nd a little girl drank it nd died...

It's a shame really, 'cause Um Bongo was one of the awesomest drinks ever. I can still renember being about 3, sitting on the beach drinking some. Hehe. :)

[Android18uk]

Maybe they should of just closed down that particular factory instead of the whole franchise.

[hemelgal69]

u can get it in asda, 5 cartons for £1...

[skindred1888]

i tried it last week

and was let down

i used to drink it everyday as a child

now it tastes like soup to me :(

[dennatrol81]

Thats a shame. Many things don't taste the same any more. Even kia ora, it tastes awful like chemicals and chocolate. I don't know if its because they wrap it in foil instead of the paper, maybe its just me, but it just doesn't taste the way it used to.:(

[groinhat]

Since it's a blatant lie about them drinking it in the Congo, I tried to sue them.

Unfortunately I was drunk and got caught up in red tape.

[recallUK82]

Bring Umbongo back?? what you on about,it never went away.They sell it in a shop I used to work in and have ever since.

Try Londis stores or something similar.

[the20001ththing]

Just to point out, they sell it in packs of five at my local Asda, so they might at yours too :)

[topliff12345]

it came back for a limited time only,now its finished

[AneleIsAKoi]

Ehm...do they actually drink it in the Congo?

[SAMagic]

According to the advert, of course!

(No I don't believe they do)

[ninjakitty8]

I remember Mu Ognob, lol.

[NikNammerz]

Um Bongo! That drink was amazing. Even if you didn't like it, you had to buy it because the advert was so cool!

[sophrebecca]

I heard you can get Um-Bongo from Waitrose

[cadeyco]

it disappeared after they got sued by the ASA, apparently, they don't drink it in the Congo...

[arrivayorkshire]

what happened to um bongo???????????????:-(

[HelenInMinorland]

I REMEMBER THIS ADVERT :D

bahahaha.

Bring back Um Bongo!

i miss it ;[

[GreenArrowM]

They dont sell this in shops anymore. I have looked 4 it everywhere :(

[Killjoycvs]

yeah they do, I bought some like, a few weeks ago.

[loopynutcase]

Thye don't sell it anywhere in Britain, well I haven't seen it over here.

I was hunting for some yesterday during my break and I couldn't find it anywhere D;

[jellymakesmesmile]

they did sell it in britain but they stopped it for some reason ):