"Sunshine on a Stick"

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"Time for Timer was the collective title for a short series of public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC television network starting in the early 1970s."
- Wikipedia


MESSY, FROZEN, JUICE BRICKS

I love the fact that Timer thinks 12 orange juice cubes are a weeks supply of snacks. At 6 years old, I was so impatient that I never gave them the chance to freeze completely, and would scarf them down immediately!

My little sunshines on a stick where effected by global warming! I'd check on them every 2 minutes, and after checking on them 5 times, well, they seemed frozen enough to me.

I'd "carefully" remove the plastic wrap, which in-turn, would dislodge ALL of my "sticks", and after popping them out of the tray, I was left with 12 messy, partially frozen, ice juice cubes on a sticky dinner plate.

There was orange juice still sloshing around inside of them! After picking one up, the juice cube would collapse sending a trail of orange juice cascading down my arms that would pool up under my elbows and drip to the floor. "SPLASH!!!"

12 orange juice cubes didn't last for a week, they lasted 5 minutes! And as far as nutrition goes, I was lucky if I received even .0000002975% of my daily requirement of vitamin C from those messy, frozen, juice bricks!

But that was okay, because I was proud to have made a "healthy after school snack" for myself, thanks to some helpful advice from a weird little lemon-drop named, Timer.

I hope that you enjoy this treasured blast-from-the-past as much as I do.

Best wishes,
~ Hal R. Kane

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[krewgarr]

Pretty cool that he refers to pomegranate juice way back then. It was definitely not a known juice for households with children, and U.S. consumers were not widely aware of it until just a few years ago when the POM brand launched and then you saw it everywhere... Also, he shouldn't say frozen juice is a "snack". It's not solid food! This ad never tempted me at all when I was a kid.

[halrkane]

@krewgarr

Well, you were way cooler than the rest of us as a child.

[JGCooney]

Who is the voice of Timer?

[halrkane]

@JGCooney

Timer's voice was provided by actor Lennie Weinrib.

[SoulHadou]

"Or what ever turns you on"......

[mestora70]

@krewgarr I believe you are incorrect. I recall eating pomegranates and drinking pomegranate juice as a child in the mid 70. Pomegranate syrup (Grenadine) was also very popular. They used to be commonly called "Chinese apples" before the Korean War.

[Bongwyre2112]

@halrkane Wonder if he was related to Gary Weinrib, aka Geddy Lee.

[FiendsInRedSatin1]

I remember trying this way back when, and it never worked. The toothpicks would always come out of the cubes.

[bivfortuna]

i just tried this and the damn toothpicks kept breaking, son of a bitch time for timer.

[Pennywisea]

MOM! Theres a piece of cheese dancing in the kitchen! Where's the camera?

[timprime4]

Shouldn't this be for when it is not raining and when it is, like hot as hell's ass?

[cmillinsf]

OMG, I had forgotten all about this one. I was stunned to watch this again after so many years!

[talkieful1]

I remember these during saturday morning cartoons, with school house rock. The good old days for sure!!!!

[luigi180]

Y am I the first thumbs down in 50k views >:(