Vintage Chef Boyardee Commercial

[faytesp]

dam I wish they still made that, with the cheese and all sounds delicious!

[MrJonJuda]

So chunky, you'll be tempted to eat it with a fork.

[jnstraume]

Wouldn't it be neat if Chef Boyardee celebrated some kind of anniversary with a year long campaign -- the exact same spaghetti dinner, with the exact same ingredients, and exact same packaging?

(Probably wouldn't be the exact same price...)

[sonicawesomeness]

You know... after Chef Boiardi Died, the company just completley ruined his entire outlook on actual, good hearty Italian food. They just added by-products and sugar. Now it just tastes terrible. My grandmother tells me that back then, it was some of the most delicious spaghetti she had ever had. I had her try spaghetti from this time in day, she was disgusted.

Most companies ruined the goodness of most big-brand things. Back in the day, it was pure and amazing.

Thumbs up if you agree.

[Respect2theFallen]

@teacupandsaucer I've been lookin for it and haven't found if u find send me the link

[Respect2theFallen]

does anyone remember a chef boyardee commercial with a kid chef asking his dog "Rigatoni you lika more cheese I like a more cheese too" it was like mid ninetys me and my bro are only ones i kno who remember it ???

[teacupandsaucer1]

I do!!!!!!!!!! I quoted it all the time as a kid! Do you have a link to it?

[BruTube]

Chunky Soup...use a spoon instead...because you are stupid and don't know how to eat soup. Why were they so condescending to people back then?

[firealarmtech]

nothing to add! so it includes water and a heat source?

[greyfox37]

@oiseaudenuit Well, what do you expect from food that people eat on a budget or welfare? It's expensive to be healthy nowadays, lol

[greyfox37]

@oiseaudenuit Wow, claws out, huh. I don't know what you were getting at, either indirectly telling me I can't afford to eat healthy or something else, so I'll simply say, take your PA out on obese people, not someone simply making a statement...on YouTube

[LaVivaGan]

ew, the 1980's

the spaghetti commercial was legit though

[Leejun85]

Nothing like nostolgia. hilarious.

[Wilycat52]

I love these commercials. xD

[ChuckyDuckable]

My house is right next to Chef Boyardee's house! My grandparents were friends with him.

[AOVengeance]

wow chef boyardee spaghetti looks really good, and I hate spaghetti, that's saying something

[lightningthehamster]

Everything in the 80's taste better.

[Daviniel]

The 80s were all about sex.

[Young21239]

@Daviniel lol

[HunterMann]

2/3 of my drink is not mixer. 50-50 is best

[SuperKawaichan]

ya  really mom why serve that cold bread for dinner ?when u can butter em up tonight ROFL

[regulatorzone]

omg maxi lip gloss looked like an ad for a porno

[mrpotatohead34]

@regulatorzone it's made in the 80's. enough said haha

[wannawatchu66]

Correction: I just found out "Boiardi" was his *last* name. Hector Boiardi.

[wannawatchu66]

I think his first name is spelled "Boiardi" or something like that. "Boyardee" is actually a phonetic spelling so that we'll know how to pronounce it (although the emphasis is on the 2nd syllable, not the 3rd: boy-AR-dee).

[therealgreatqball]

@wannawatchu66 Hector Boiardi I think....

[wannawatchu66]

@therealgreatqball Yeah, I think you're right.

[splattergirl72]

My mom always refused to buy the boxed spaghetti dinner.Since I'm an adult now, I think I'll try one.It looks really good here.

[TheChadalack]

@splattergirl72 CHECK COMMET ABOVE, NEVER EAT HIS FOOD!!!!!!!!

[lightningthehamster]

@TheChadalack I think his food is delicious. Nobody gives two shits on what you say, because it's Mmmm.

[mxestrada]

SQUEEZE IT ON

[YingaLovesBewbs]

@SuperJustin73 It's funny on how you troll on every commercial i see. Get a Life you fucking moronic child.

[AMEwrestling]

RIP Chef Hector Boiardi.

[firealarmtech]

Hmm.... nothing to add? what about water!? lol!

[kevssss]

butter em up tonight ;)

[ubandassociates]

lol he changed soooo much and even the food lol

[MrMichaelBlackson]

Purrfect!

[elc1960]

What is this - a YouTube John Birch Society meeting? What is it about YouTube that brings out all the "trolls" and racists? It's just a commercial, for Christ's sake! For a spaghetti dinner kit!

[hwoods01]

Boy, you sure can tell the difference in times.. RACISM is what I mean, no niggers at all in ANY of these commercials.. nothing but pasty white fucks.. RACIST

[mcshiffern]

@hwoods01 would you shut the hell up. I'm tired of all you ignorant shits crying racism.

[JISINSANE3]

@hwoods01 Yeah and no smelly goddamn border jumping spics either in these commercials or any goddamn chincs or sand niggers.

[lonestarrooster]

Update...I think the CBaD boxed spaghetti dinner was discontinued some time back. The box pizza kits are still available, not sure about the lasagna.

[MaRbLeDrOpS]

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love Chef Boyardee canned spaghetti. It's the best. I'm taking it with me to the school I'm going to. It beats anything else!

[ffugenw]

Namzso1... Sorry, but the person in the Chef Boyardee commercial is an actor-- not the real Hector Boiardi (or as his passport and immigration papers state Ettore Boiardi). The person also appeared in a couple of print ads at the time.

The real chef's face was more full and his voice deeper. Still a nice commercial. Thanks for posting it.

[elc1960]

@ffugenw I was going to say pretty much the same as you but you beat me to it. Also, the guy in the ad gesticulates with his hands a lot and adds an "A" on some of his words in the old-style un-PC "faux Italian" manner that you used to see.

[camaro76]

@elc1960 at least he really is italian.

[pixiepoxify]

i miss commercials back then. nowadys commericals look like crap. all the actors look like fakes

[chickenygoodness]

just a bit of trivia...in the old 1953 commercial, the chef pronounces his name boy-AR-dee, with accent on the middle syllable. but when i was a kid growing up in the mid 60's, we always pronounced it with the accent on the last syllable, as in chef boy-ar-DEE. So, now, in the newer commercial, I hear him pronouncing his name with accent not so strong on the middle "AR" as he did in the old commerical. What can I say, i just plain enjoy the old commercials, but did notice this little detail...

[Dolphindream15]

I eat chef boyardee all the time I love it,,,chef boyardee did alot for our country during ww2 when he was asked by our goverment if he would help out with the war effort and he did,,he transformed his kitchens into food ration packing of his products to our troops,,chef boyardee was the largest food ration supplier to our troops and alies during ww2,,he also catered presedint woodrow wilson wedding,,around ww1,he was a great man,,CHEF BOYARDEE

[Sheri451]

Those canned biscuits were on Little House OnThe Prairie. I can tell everytime they show Ma cooking them and the children eating them, I laugh everytime I see the episode where they move to Winoka, and Ma cooks them for that man he puts butter on one and says" MMM! There better than my own mothers." I love Grands biscuits.

[herper64]

why can't you find Chef Boyardee spaghetti sauce in a can anymore???? i loved that stuff!!

[HelloNewYorkCity]

you know, in the 80's they had much better frozen pizza. better than digiornos and that crap.

[Staszu13]

Never mind Chef Boyardee....WHO'S THE MAX FACTOR BABE????

[jirolover143]

i wonderr the same thingg.. how good wldd the quality be yrs from now..

[O8SERVER]

Wow...I wonder if modern commercials will look so dated in a couple of decades...crazy

[Aprilshowersss]

@O8SERVER just look at commercials from the 90s already. gives me the heebie jeebies

[blackballmime]

the spaghetti looked great.

[jakestooge34]

That spaghetti dinner does look pretty good.

[Ozza22]

Psuedo Italian my foot. Who else but a real Italian could make cheap food taste so good.

[Staszu13]

Real indeed, from the northern town of Piacenza. He came to the US when he was 16.

[5stringofFernandoSor]

Wow, real glass bottles. I remember drinking 7UP out of those tall 12 ounce bottles or something when I was a little guy.

[EONSFTFAN]

never was a big fan of this product but sure did LOVE the Chef Boyardee frozen pizzas!! Sure wish they still made em.

Regarding broadcast dates, these commercials are definitely from the 1970's I believe the Pillsbury commercial had 1979 as the copyright date. Canda Dry looks like 1976 as its copyright.

[inkey2]

to EONSTFAN: ya know.....they still make Chef Boyardee pizza kit in a box....just like the 1950s. I was amazed that they still made it. Not many places carry it. In Massachusetts the "Shaws Supermarkets" chain carry them. I bought 3 of them.

[EONSFTFAN]

Unfortunately that don't even come close to being like their frozen pizzas were. Each flavor came in a different colored box... red-pepperoni, green-sausage, blue-hamburger and yellow for cheese.

I've not found a frozen pizza that is even close to what chef made in the 70's and early 80's.

Most people say I'm crazy and that they never had a frozen pizza but I can promise you that they did.

[inkey2]

to EONSFTFAN: looks like you are correct. Chef Boyardee's web site does not show a frozen pizza in their product line up. To me, that is very odd that a company that has made their name in affordable pseudo Italian cuisine doesn't even offer any form of frozen pizza. Someone at the top has determined (be they right or wrong) that it is not financially worth-it to offer one.....especially now when there are dozens of fairly decent frozen pizzs on the market.

[EONSFTFAN]

the CBD frozen pizzas were very good IMO compared to some of what is sold today.

Most companies generally do not list their discontinued products on their website and such info is usually hard to come by.

I couldn't even tell you all the Hamburger Helpers that are no longer made which we grew up on including a meatloaf variety that included everything you needed except for the meat....

Another discontinued CBD product is Canaloni which was introduced around 1979 or 1980.

[baredd79]

Riddle me this Hector?! If it's a complete spaghetti dinner, where the fuck is the garlic bread?

[inkey2]

to baredd79: yeah, no kidding. A spaghetti dinner without garlic bread is like fish and chips without tarter sauce and lemon

[Fersomling]

The best, and longest lasting, Chef Boy Ardee commerical I can't find anywhere. It's the one where the kid is bouncing up and down ringing the church bell to call the kids home for their spaghetti lunch. "...spaghetti and meatballs for you and for me from Chef Boy Ardee."

[Haroldesp]

This commercial was from the 1970s, in my humble guess. Its in color, not black n white. It is very straight forward and to the point. Would be interested in knowing why they dont make this product anymore.

[dawnwest1128]

The spaghetti dinner is no longer available! They stopped making it! It was good too.

[meglev96]

where do u buy the box ones???!

[caaaitlin88]

about when are these commercials from?

[Vinolence]

Wow, is it just me or are these commercials unbelievably creepy?

O_o Seriously.

[Rikki0]

Yeah, scary.  These are from the 50's and 60's and using mostly real people instead of actors. That was the real Chef Boyardee ( Boiardi ) btw. Scary stuff. No actors. The horror.

[bg147]

Chef Boyardee and my grandpa were good friends back in the day, and he attended my parents' wedding. Whenever my grandpa mentioned Chef Boyardee to me, he would always call him Boyardee, he never said Chef,  just Boyardee, it was sort of funny hearing him talk about the guy on the can as one of his old buddies.

[elprobear]

thats tight.

[kimchiman1000]

@bg147

That's cool.

[MiHiVidz]

@bg147 There's now a statue of Chef Boy Ar Dee in Omaha, Nebraska.

[tacoblocko]

@bg147 and everytime he visited he would say "HALLO! I AM CHEF BOYARDEE!" and then try to give you cans of his stuff....sorry this is just what I'm imagining he was like lol.

[roxanneworld11]

@bg147 That's great!...& lol!, my dad knew the guy who was the voice of The Jolly Green Giant. He did many other ones, too, which we still hear sometimes via reruns on tv. He died quite some time ago but I remember him - a very nice man!

[kittyever]

Waw these are like commercial from the 80's weird times.... weird times....

[hippieshake1978]

my mom used to make that spaghetti dinner.. she would cook the hamburger and add that with it. so much better back then. now they added their crappy meatballs to it and the sauce isnt the same. i miss it. leave to them to mess up the dinner and take my roller coasters away

[InFaHazel]

god everything was better back then.... now i feel like im in some cold dark future out in space... where nothing is real and im all alone

[ess1898]

Boy you sure aren't kidding I barely recognize the world anymore. the future is now and boy does it ever suck. If I had a time machine I would bugger off into the past and not bother to go back to the future.

[ericasalad]

Sheesh, are you guys practicing for the old folks home or something? Whine whine whine. If it wasn't for the future you wouldn't even be able to see this silly commercial again to reminisce about!

[bmovies60]

The pillsbury comercial, it reminds me of many other commercials at the time. The kind that featured fully stocked country style kitchens. A dishwasher, a breadbox, an up to date stove & sink, a fridge filled with good food (including the proverbial pitcher filled with OJ), dainty curtains decorating the windows, etc. My kitchens at the time? 15-20 yr. old stove, a 30-40 yr. old sink. A 10 yr.old fridge that was empty alot of the time. No dishwasher. No curtains. Not even a breadbox.

[bphutchins]

wtf he was a real person?

[sonyboy97]

slimy wet lips?

[travis7310]

I believe he said shiny wet lips.

[CescoPisicoli]

its amazing how different the commercials were back then. I find it fascinating!

[Sparkina]

I thought the country fella was kinda cute. Looked like he could have been Dean Butler's (Almanzo "Zaldamo" Wilder on "Little House") cousin.

[HBKanedge818]

sygo7g. I'm sure you have Chef Boyardee & Chunky Soup in stores cuz you live in the U.S. Not to sound mean but there really cheap so almost anyone can aford at least 1 can of each. If the guy at the beginning went to a family dinner and the soup was made with city grown vegetables. He'd probably make a scene by throwing the soup out the window, overturning the table, throwing chairs across the room, storm to his car & go home to his house in the country. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahaha!!!!

[PearlJammer07]

These are corny and you rarely see a campbell commercial. They mostly come on during the winter. They should also air when people get sick the most. Whatever happend to the beef fajita campbell chunky soup i loved that one the most. I guess the price of beef went up and they stopped making that one.

[HBKanedge818]

My favorite kinds of Chunky Soup are. Sirloin Burger, Tortellini with chicken & Chicken Corn Chowder. My 3 favorite Chef Boyardee are Tortellini, Ravolli & Beefaroni. Chunky Soup & Chef Boyardee are the best foods EVER. RIP Ettore Boiardi (Chef Boyardee). I hate Club Soda & Tonic Water cuz it tastes like VERY BITTER carbonated water. I mixed it in once in Coke and it ruined the whole drink. Pillsbury Biscuits are good as well. MMMM red lips. Ultra sexy.

[HBKanedge818]

Why can't TV now-a-days have commercails like these. WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!

[DCOdancers]

that is CAMPELLS CHUNKY SOUP!

[tunapup12]

Continue on and there is the Chef Boyardee commercial.

[lictor313]

hhahhaaha all the ads are all-white people...

today your lucky if you see a heterosexual white male that isnt fat stupid and ugly in a commercial..

[NYAdirondackHiker]

A truly great man! He thoughtfully included everything you needed for a great spaghetti dinner! All in one package, nothing to add!

[gymnastix]

Yes, but most people, when they think of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, think of the canned pasta meals which don't taste anywhere near as good as homemade, nor even as good as the jarred pasta sauces (Classico, Newman's Own, Prego, Ragu, etc.).

The one thing that may be said of Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee canned meals is that they are better than Spahetti-O's, which are now made by Campbell's, used to be a separate company called Franco-American (as if the French are typically associated with pasta, go figure?).

[gymnastix]

By the way, I submitted the last comment before spell-checking--so it's supposed to read "Spaghetti-O's."

But anyway, of all the Boy-Ar-Dee canned meals, the meat ravioli is definitely the best, with Beef-A-Roni (which tastes like a processed version of the American Chop Suey one's mother might have made or is/was served in school cafeterias) a distant second.

Stay away from the lasagna and spaghetti & meatballs--Stouffer's is a step or two up from those, if one cannot use jar or homemade.

[duncan36]

Some Italian companies make flash frozen ravioli thats in the freezer section. Its not bad, but its not that cheap either.

[OzzyMouth]

Chef Hector "Boy-ar-dee" Boiardi is a legend. Today's commercials are mostly phony garbage. Why can't they make great commercials like that today? Many of today's producers for commercials lack the real "know how" of making great quality commercials. RIP Chef Boiardi!!!

[SmileOnADog]

I only eat city vegetables.

[oldbinny]

he probably wouldn't have eaten his own brand

[kfirmedia]

1979!! Damn I saw that copyright... Yep I did!! Cool video compliation!

[TheClodfather]

Lol... 70s commercials.

[steadfastcoward]

Ahhh...70's haircuts.

The Chunky ad begs the "which one is the Breck girl" question.

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

i should try chef boyardee's boxed products. the canned stuff is nasty. by the way, is that still the original and only chef boyardee in his commercial? or someone else, cuz he looks and sounds different than the other famous commercial

[Namzso1]

Its the same guy, but this is 20 years later.

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

kay

[Tubernaut]

Ettore Boiardi left this Earth in 1985 and his wife joined him 10 years later.

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

i mean, the soup commercial looked totally tasty, the lip gloss commercial was sexy and appatising, the chef boyardee commercial was absolutely great, the mineral water commercial made me damn thirsty, and hot damn, the butter bread commercial was delicious

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

WOW. commercials back then did a way better job, and were much more appatising than today, with all this shit coming out of mattel's ass, im talking about toy commercials, but hot damn, back then the food commercials are better. i dont even know if there are that many now, that target all ages. just fast food

[TheClodfather]

True that

[cmaninmn]

the soup looks nasty... what were they thinking???

[lonestarrooster]

There are still Chef Boy-ar-Dee boxed products out on the market. I saw the boxed spaghetti dinner (kind of like the one in this ad) the other day at my local Kroger store, and they also had the boxed lasagna and pizza (both cheese and pepperoni) kits. Long live the Chef!

[Namzso1]

I still eat the pizza to this day!

[bphutchins]

so do I... do you remember when they changed the flavor of the sauce??? thankfully they changed it back

[Ermaco74]

Whatever happened to the non-canned Chef Boyardee products? I don't remember ever seeing them, aside from a pizza mix, and I'm 33 years old.

Yeah, that Chunky Soup guy was born on a farm set in a Hollywood studio. Maybe he's one of Ma & Pa Kettle's youngest kids...

[bphutchins]

spaghetti? it's in a box

[Bimmer330i]

The boxed products are still in production, they just aren't carried everywhere like the canned-products are.

The boxed are better, but the best spaghetti outside of making your own from scratch is the Classico (Basil & Tomato) sauce with a Barilla spaghettini.

[wolfsblood07]

I agree but I'd say Emiril's vodka sauce is one of the best in a jar. Lydia's sauce is excellent too but it's hard to find.

[Sparkina]

Yes, The Chef was a real person, and he really was a chef. Hector Boiardi. (I dunno if the canned entrees are his recipes though. You don't have to be a Top Chef to know that if you put pasta in a can, you get MUSH!)And by the way, the accent was genuine. He was born in Italy and immigrated to the States at seventeen

[DelhiHeat]

What...did the Sopranos whack him for insulting Italians or something with the canned crap??

[eeektavius]

OH! Shiebe!! this video is wicked heavy! I remembers commercials like this...makes me feel a very old 25 rotations around the sun... i think i'll put on some glam metal and in a few years some bad R&B...

[bphutchins]

if you remember these commercials you're at least in your mid 30s

[DA90027]

He may have been born on a farm but his hairstyle means he was coiffed in West Hollywood! HAHAHAA...I bet he is wearing women's panties too!

[quirpco]

ew...bad visual.

[blinkroxyeahbaby]

lol back then it took 15 minutes to cook. Now it takes 1 minute

[MVillani1985]

These are 1979 commercials, maybe very early 1980, look at the date on one of them.

[kiba2447]

lol sauce with meat in it? wouldent the meat spoil way before the sauce lol

[a1cjlock]

They put them in non perishable cans for a reason. lol

[fromthesidelines]

His name was Hector Boyardi (a former restaurant chef who made a reputation for his Italian dinners), and he first marketed "Chef Boy-Ar-Dee" boxed spaghetti dinners [and eventually, canned pasta] in the late '30s. In time, American Home {Food} Products bought him out in the '50s, and he remained their chief consultant and "pitchman" until his death.

[mc52877]

thats really old

[Qaoz]

Oh. My. God.

I thought modern commercials were bad, but this...

[a1cjlock]

This is way better! <3

[DevSodDribble]

More like 1970 commercials! And yes, Chef Boyardee's food looks a lot better here than it does out of a can.

[Dmasterman]

Should've said it was a bunch of 1980 commercials. Is that really chef? And wow I wish they still made that..