Buying Food: How Not To Do It

This excerpt from "Buying Food" scares housewives into being wise shoppers by showing the disastrous results of letting the husband buy groceries. (Thankfully, it doesn't explore the reasons that Henry has for wanting 3 pints of oysters...)

The full "Buying Food" video (a dull instructional film about spending your grocery budget wisely) is available, thanks to A/V Geeks, on archive.org.
http://www.archive.org/details/buying_food

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• vintage
• educational
• film
• centron
• grocery
• shopping
• oysters

[metamaggot]

you'd never get a film like this nowadays...the government encourages impulse buying to boost the economy...

[mentalcleanser]

Actually, government-generated information about grocery shopping is typically put out by agricultural extensions, and they encourage shopping lists rather than impulse buying, both to help stick to a budget and to improve nutrition (you're more likely to buy vegetables, for example, if you write it down than if you just wander in feeling hungry). I've never seen any government publication (or politician) advocate overbuying and then discarding food as part of economic stimulus.

[metamaggot]

@mentalcleanser don't you remember bush's speech a couple of years ago...where he siad people where scared and where'nt buying enough...

[mentalcleanser]

I don't think that is evidence that "the government encourages impulse buying," particularly in grocery shopping. If there is a pattern of PR campaigns advocating that, as opposed to the long-standing pattern of advocating sensible food purchases, then I might agree -- but I just don't find random remarks, which were unrelated to food shopping, convincing.

Anyway, "Buying Food" was originally produced by Centron, which was a private company and not funded by government agencies of any sort.

[metamaggot]

@mentalcleanser yes of course this is totally random i was talking about ham sandwiches...

just remember who financially backs up candidates for elections...the word of the us government is the word of the corporations and banks that fund them...not their own

[mentalcleanser]

Bush's remarks were random (not yours), hence not indicative of broad government policy. Sorry for the confusion.

I agree politics in the US is corrupt, but youtube comments are an odd place for activism -- particularly since this video doesn't talk about the government at all. It was uploaded as a humorous example of the silly content of vintage instructional films (the "mental hygiene" genre), particularly remarkable because of the extremely weird impulse buys the hero decides on.

[jiujitsutony]

"Hmmm, this cake's hard as a rock. Wish I could say the same about Henry. Oh, well, maybe I'll impulse-buy three pints of scotch--take my mind off it."

[inkey2]

lol....3 pints of oysters

[EricSchwin22]

Dude seriously? Henry can't eat all that. ::LMAO!!:: 

[TuxKamen]

RiffTrax handled this one on a Shorts DVD, made it pretty funny