Other Urban Legends include: Humphrey Bogart was the original Gerber baby on
their baby food ads, the FBI monitors public libraries and notes who reads «subversive» books, and my favorite: If the entire population of China jumped up at the same time, the US would be swamped by a tidal wave.
Not exact matches
you must be browsing a lot of crosby specific sites, because mine shows amazon
ads for things like
baby food pouches and such.
In 2010 I told you about a new $ 25 million
ad campaign, sponsored by carrot growers, to attract kids to
baby carrots through the use of junk
food - style packaging and marketing.
A 1937
ad for Clapp's
baby food included photos of three - month - old baby «John Curlett» being fed his Clapp's Baby Cer
baby food included photos of three - month - old
baby «John Curlett» being fed his Clapp's Baby Cer
baby «John Curlett» being fed his Clapp's
Baby Cer
Baby Cereal.
The
ads and articles function to advance the idea that commercial
baby food, Gerber's in particular, is just as nutritious as fresh as home - prepared
foods, and even more appropriate because it is so scientifically prepared.
Not only did specific
ad copy and photographs encourage the notion that infants under four months need solid
food, but the icon of the Gerber
Baby itself legitimated the idea.
Bolthouse Farms helped pave the way for using Mountain Dew - style tactics to sell healthy
foods, like this
ad for
baby carrots.