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Absurdly Sexist Coffee Ad (ca. 1960s)

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Uploaded by on Sep 5, 2011

In another commercial in this bizarre, early-sixties ad campaign for Folgers, a smug young husband says "Augh! This coffee is criminal!" as he throws a cup of his wife's coffee into a bed of petunias. Then, he obnoxiously berates his wife while sticking his finger in her face saying, "Admit it! Your coffee really is murder!" The wife goes to a European-accented old man in the grocery store and says, "Papa Eddie, it's my coffee--it's murder!" Papa Eddie is the male version of Mrs. Olsen, another Folger's coffee pusher.

You know, I never quite got the whole concept of "mountain grown", much less the concept of a mountain. Is a mountain round? Is it square? Or perhaps they are shaped like an amoeba? Well, Papa Eddie sets the record straight here with an easy to remember hand signal which clearly indicates mountains are in fact triangular in shape. I wonder what ad man thought up THAT brilliant idea.

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  • He should spank her for serving bad coffee. She's asking for it.

  • If he was so appalled by the coffee, he should have tried making it on his own. Sexist or not, it's just stupid and rude for anyone to behave like that towards someone else.

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  • If he did something like that to me I'd spit in his coffee or something to that measure

  • @joseph4501 I know, but doesn't make the behaviour ok. :)

  • @iloveuburr because that was a differnt time when women did the house chores and men went out and found a job

  • I would make him coffee! Let me go scrape some asphalt off the driveway real quick...

  • @dddrrmm sometimes a pyramid is just a pyramid. stop reading into everything

  • Why is that shopkeeper acting asian?

  • @dddrrmm

    Go away troll!

  • pyramid... no iluuminati comments... seriously?

  • @eric1love Yes, totally krammed in to every frame of it! They're everywhere...

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