“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams.
Nice to see Rodney Bewes (fish), David Lodge (Bovril), and Harry Towb (D Tea) again. Plus the mellifluous tones of Richard Briars extolling the virtues of Batchelor’s pie fillings.
...and Janet Davies, (Mrs. Pike), as Towb's wife. But, for this ! romantic sentamentalist, there's the dog, ' Rebel '; (with those two, perfectly-matched urchins in the beefburger advert; no doubt, she pursued him into manhood, and convinced him not only to marry him, but to believe it was his own idea, and inevitable; (forever either doing-away with his '' Ooh 'eck ! "; or married life training him to replace it with something more truly expressive of his matured feelings). No one could suggest more to a denier of free food to a dog, by lowering his head, the need to have a guilty conscience more than Rebel.
The car insurance commercials are out of control! Progressive, State Farm, liberty mutual, the general, geico, aflak, and 80 other ones always spamming on tv.
Other favourites: 1. Marmite: the growing up spread you never grew out of 2. R White's lemonade drink - sneaking down to the fridge at midnight 3. Cadbury's flake - through hazy filter a girl drifting through a meadow of flowers 4. Oxo stock cubes 5. The milky bar kid is back in town..... 6. Rowntrees fruit gums and pastels 7. Blue band margarine 8. Chum dog food 9. Whiskas cat food 10. Black Magic chocolates There are so many memories.
Hang on, according to Rodney Bewes, they knocked down the fish and chip shop and built a multi storey car park. Must have been one heck of a big chippy.
Half a century later, I still eat everything in this video. Except the Dividend tea, which is no longer available, and the rusks, which are. For most of my youth we drank Tetley, then later Scottish Blend. I've since moved on to Yorkshire Tea. But other than that, I'm still pretty much on the same diet I was in the 70s.
Bachelors voice-over sounds like Richard Briers, possibly Brooke Bond too. Rodney 'Likely Lad' Bewes in the Birds Eye ads - the first here appears in here is called 'Proper Lunch' from 1973.
These single uploads are much, much better as they are quick to play (as well as to upload) - so one is not put off watching because there are items of no interest - as maybe the case in the longer clips.
@@garethbramley1 I agree but thought I would experiment with some batches. I think I'll keep to singles and do some top ten compilations once I've been posting for a year.
Sounds a good idea. I prefer those from 60s / 70s. I watched so many September 18 to say June this year. I picked some of your out and have watched most of them. I'll look again later to see if there are others.
@@garethbramley1 I still have loads of 70s 80s 90s and 00's commercials to process but alas nothing earlier. The uploading of commercials on this channel was meant to be a secondary objective so eventually I hope to upload something different... But the commercials will still continue 😉
A lot of famous thespians/actors started their career either acting in the ad or doing the voice overs I remember all these foods especially Birds Angel Delight I never liked Angel Delight Rodney Bewes 👍 👍 ❤️❤️🏴🏴
I didn’t know Edwina Currie started her career in TV Ads! (Drinking Chocolate) The second one for the Meat Pie looks disgusting... Looks like someone’s dishing up Diarrhea! YUK!
It's no surprise that Brits eat so much takeaway now. Look at the flavourless shite the nation had been eating!!! Plain battered fish, mushy peas, angel delight. The most flavoursome thing was Bovril. And that's still rank. Brits need some spice and seasonings in their life's.
Your comment is rubbish .These are all processed foods . But there is nothing wrong with good home cooked British food cooked fresh, like roast dinners, stews and meat and vegetable meals, good savoury food. I wouldn't want to eat spicy food all the time. Spices are not native to Britain and many of us still prefer our savoury native food.
@@k.avilla8061 yes, there is nothing wrong with hearty food like you mentioned. but try and "spice" things up. Not by adding spice but by learning new dishes. Not all flavourful food is spicy lol, u never had Chinese, Italian, Turkish food? It's called, there's more to life than a roast, stew, spag bowl (very English), lasagna (same thing), turkey dinasours and chips, jacket potato and beans etc... This is what English people eat. It's very BLAND. The whole world knows this. I'm English and eat all the food I've mentioned but recent years I've branched out, I eat Korean, Italian, I tried jellof, carribean and I started to cook a lot of middle Eastern recipes. It's not spicy. It's called flavour. Try it. Or carry on eating beige food. Your life
@@kahyui2486 These adverts are selling convenience foods that were sold in the 1970's .But they were not necessarily the staple diet of all Britains until we reached the point where we started being sold rubbish like ' turkey twizzlers'. In 21st century 'multi-cultural ' Britain, all of the ' spicy' foods you mention ( Chinese, Indian, Italian etc..) are familiar to everybody in our country and now almost everybody, of all backgrounds, has cooked a stir-fry or made a curry, spaghetti bolognese or lasagne at home (including myself ). If people don't like cooking, they have them as a takeaways. So don't patronise me with comments about eating only ' beige food'. You're not breaking any new ground here. Historically, people were restricted to what you call ' bland' food, because there were no alternatives, or they didn't know any better. In the past, the ingredients to make the ; 'more interesting' foreign recipes were not available in the UK, but they could still cook native food that was nutricious and healthy. Before the 1970's era of the kind of convenience foods seen here, in these ads, people were less wealthy and less exposure to more exotic food, but the simple 'bland' British food was healthy and people were healthier and fitter on their meat and two veg diet and simple salads than they are today. There wasn't the obesity and diabetes epidemic that we have in the population now. Pizzas, curries, Jellabies and Chinese takeaways are not healthy. I have also noticed that there are as many people of ethnic minority backgrounds ( Indian sub-continent, black etc,,) queuing up in McDonalds, Papa John's and KFC as there are native white people. The Asian population has, proportionately, the highest level of diabetes in the UK. All people of all ethnicities are eating too much junk food in the UK, today.
