Instant Sanka Coffee with Lucy & Desi

Three things I can't stand are pre-popped popcorn, cheap ice cream or instant coffee!! That said, I wonder what this granulated stuff in the ugly jar taste like?!? But I enjoy watching Lucy and Desi plug it, with Desi's three manicures in one day...

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Instant
• Sanka
• Coffee
• Lucy
• Desi
• commercial
• 50s

[TVonthePorch]

@cheeriosinabowl Uh ya, nothing like the perpetual reboiling of coffee through the grounds over and over.

I'm a world class luddite but even I acknowledge a Mr. Coffee is vastly superior to a percolator.

[cheeriosinabowl]

Instant coffee was and always will be crappy tasting coffee.

Perked coffee is the way to go.

[Cromag99]

That crap was poison then and still is!

[BettinaBalser]

Dream Lovers forever and ever. There will never be another couple like them.

[MyGodForgives]

Hahaha. "The commercial's over, dear." "Oh." xD

[HGbunny]

The whole "three manicures" thing by Desi is really very funny, where most of the commercials of the time are pretty dry by today's standards.

[fromthesidelines]

This is a 1956 "integrated commercial" by Lucy & Desi, from the end of one of their episodes sponsored by General Foods {Sanka}, who co-sponsored "I LOVE LUCY" with Procter & Gamble, from 1955 through '57. They always plugged their sponsors' products at the end of the program...