www.zazzle.co.uk/samkar Vintage clip brom the Fifties featuring Chef Boyardee Spaghetti Dinner A Fabulous Classic Commercial which was aired during the 20th of March, 1953
They had this up to the early 1990's and then no more. The sauce was absolutely incredible. Nothing like their canned regular stuff. Very high quality.
In 1958 was the first time I ever ate spaghetti and it was Chef Boyardee packaged spaghetti. I thought it was the best thing I have ever eaten and I was 8. My mother only made one box for 4 people. So disappointing. Today, I make a very special sauce that all my children and grandchildren request. It isn't the same as Chef Boyardee but he inspired me when I was a small child.
I miss this, I loved it so much! My grandma would make it also for dinner. I remember opening the little can of meat sauce and licking the lid...we had grown up very poor and well, it feed 5 of us, 3 siblings and my Grandma and Mom❤ Good memories!!😀😃
1 Box!? For 4!? Sir I'm so very sorry as I'm 33 to date and Spaghetti is a very common food for me that I mastered in making and make more then anyone can eat. You came from those humble but rough beginnings that I must respect! So respect sir.
Yes, there was a real "Chef Boy-ar-dee". His name was Ettore "Hector" Boiardi, and he operated a successful Italian restaurant in Cleveland during the 1920s and '30s. His customers liked his spaghetti sauce SO much, he began giving it to them "on the side" (eventually, with grated cheese and uncooked spaghetti) - then, he sold a "complete spaghetti dinner" in packages, with other canned products, and concentrated on that business. By the end of the '40s, American Home Products bought him out..
Then in the 1990’s,American Home Products merged with Hunt-Wesson/Beatrice and Conagra to become Conagra Brands LLC. And Recently,they acquired Hormel in 2016 which the combined company is now called Conagra-Hormel Brands LLC.Actually Hunt-Wesson merged with Beatrice in the 1980’s and Northern-Simon at the same time to become Hunt-Wesson/Beatrice.And Hormel had and still has a 25% ownership of Unilever in the United States.
"Ask your grocer for Chef Boyardee's Spaghetti Dinner with meat or mushroom sauce, won't you?" God these old commercials are straight-up /cute/. I can't say no when he asks so nicely like that! ^3^
What would Hector boiardi say about his spaghetti today now that the whole thing is in a can minus the cheese? I still eat the cheese ravioli today. Its really good with the tomato sauce unlike the beef one that comes in the generic pasta sauce. They sell it for 87 cents a can at Walmart. Just bought 20 cans of it yesterday and had 2 cans worth for lunch today. Good stuff! But still, I wonder what he would say about his spaghetti in a can if he were alive today.
My mother bought a box of mac and cheese with a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup because the chef boyardee wasn't budget friendly. Bonus: Momma always left about half a centimeter of the soup for me to carefully scrape from the can while she cooked. Must have been annoying as a dog worrying a dry bone, but Momma was patient like that. Thanks, Chef, for inspiring us poor folks with the sheer adaptability of pasta! The man should RIP knowing how he helped fill small bellies with food that lasted.
...while continuing to represent "Chef Boy-ar-dee" in TV and radio commercials (including this one, which appeared on "LOVE OF LIFE", sponsored by American Home Products), as well as creating new ideas for the company until his death in 1985.
In those days you got a camera and made a speach about your product and the commercial was finished, no actirs editing ect. Just go in the kitchen or garage and shoot. get it developed and send copies to the TV stations
Back in the 1960's even as a small child, I hated canned pasta. I guess I saw a commercial for this and I remember I wanted my mother to get some, she made it and I don't think I ever ate canned pasta again. Even now when a recipe calls for the pasta to be cooked with the sauce, I don't do it, it reminds me too much of the canned pasta "look".
Listen again. He didn't say how many servings per box. Really, 1/4 of the platter with some broccoli after a salad would be plenty. Yes, toss on a piece of garlic bread, too.
We were Italian and we never bought this. My mom made homemade Italian meals nearly every day. THIS WAS NOT something my folks would buy. You don't get Spaghetti from a can !
