They Taste as Good as They Look (Awful)
Sometimes, an image just speaks for itself. Other times, there’s a rubber hand in the image, and it does the talking. On yet other times, there are two drinks that have colors you might expect to see if you hit your head on a rock—on Mars. On yet other times, you catalog bad ideas just by seeing them in print (Bacardi, a once brilliant brand, making premade cocktails that obviously must only be touched with fake hands). On yet other times, all of the above happens at once. It’s a wonder, to me, that the world didn’t implode. At least, as the ad says, “they taste like fresh tropical beauties should taste” on Mars. Well, that’s what they meant.
phismi said:
Booze for Transformers. A delicious engine coolant cocktail for the gentleman, and transmission fluid on the rocks for the lady.
Is this ’70s vintage, or earlier?
admin said:
I totally should have called this post Booze for Transformers. Dang.
I believe this particular ad is from the Sept or Oct issue of Playboy from 1968? Late sixties (I’ll double check).
phismi said:
Au contraire, your chosen title makes me giggle every time I read it. It has a decidedly vaudevillean vibe.
And you are the only person I know who reads Playboy for the advertisements.
Rebecca said:
Nothing says “tasty, refreshing drink” like bright red, plastic nails attached to one of those Horror shop fake hands.
