growing up is realizing that The Original Chocolate Factory is just an unaltered double boiler and that this is like marketing a regular spatula as The Pancake Wizard
My mom actually bought this way back when I was a kid. She used this thing for years and still uses it to make chocolate covered strawberries. She lost all the stuff that came with it over the years but she still has the two pots. xD
I asked my mom for this for my birthday when I was a kid and actually got it and then realized that we were not a chocolate dipping kind of family. Still kinda fun and we got the molds out of it
Well the scam was that it was cool looking and us kids would bitch and complain until the parents thought 20 bucks was worth it enough to get us to shut up. I remember getting this "moldable sand" toy thing from a commercial on cartoon network and it was completely worthless. Parents said never again lol. Edit: nah i remember it was "floam" this weird toy thing that came out in 2004.
This takes me back, man. This was on every commercial break on Cartoon Network, Toon Disney/Disney Channel and Kids WB back in the early 00s. I miss those days. Life was simpler then.
As a kid, I always saw these kind of commercials as "moddest" and "quaint", as opposed to other bombastic in-your-face commercials with absurdist humor, who just want to offer you a decent product through "honest" means and in a lighthearted tone. The "limited" feeling just made it feel more "honest" and "moddest", y'know?
@timesnewlogan2032 are you talking about those "local" car commercials about local car dealerships like that Baltimore commercial? "Crazy Al's Cars! 25% off! This Sunday! No down payment for 15 months!".
Once I see commercials like these, I watch commercials for 1 year already! I started watch commercials/infomercials in 2022 to see how commercials actually looked like back in the early early years!
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FIR THIS EVERYWHERE AND FOR YEEEEARS! OMGGGGG! THIS WAS THE COOLEST THING TO ME AS A LITTLE KID! I remember always asking my mom if we could get this but she never got it and I'm still sad I never tried this 😂
I actually got this as a Christmas present when I was younger (around 8-10 years old I think?) and I was OBSESSED with the molds. Every opportunity I had I was making chocolate teddy bears, and it was so satisfying putting the chocolate in the squirt bottle thing and just going to town. Definitely thinking about buying some chocolate molds now
The crazy thing is those 3d models were probably really expensive to make at the time this commercial came out. Now it could probably be made in 15 min using blender
I begged my mom for this, and she brought me to the sad realization; I didn't actually want to do the work of this, I just wanted the commercial food. Now that I know how to stage photos, it makes me sadder lol
Got this for christmas as a kid (thanks grandma!!) and was very disappointed when the giant reese's cup mold nearly broke releasing the chocolate, and the chocolate was too thick to successfully bite. Had to gnaw at the thing for days. Still cool that I got it, though.
No I can't say it left them snoring because my family is realistic enough to know that food isn't a movie or something. It also doesn't cause them to appear as though I have double vision.
Once I began baking, I started having to do this for brownies if I wasn't doing it from scratch. It kept giving me flashbacks to this commercial lol. At least this taught me that directly putting chocolate on a pan touching the fire is a bad thing to do, but I don't need this specific contraption for it, that said.
Remember seeing this commercial on cartoon Network back in the day. Although now I wonder why not just get Hershey's Chocolate syrup and fill it up in a bowl? Maybe that's why not that many people bought this I actually dialed the number and it's disconnected.
This one was my favorite kind of As Seen on TV product: when it's just literally some regular thing people do in kitchens all the time (setting up a double boiler) but presented as an innovation. Like all those different 'creative' egg cooking devices that were just... any shallow microwave safe bowl.
Like everyone else who was a kid or tween in the late 90s/early 2000s, I remember seeing this on Cartoon Network as well. Rewatching as an adult, it's interesting to see that they were apparently literally advertising this to children, as indicated by the line 'and, with adult supervision....'
I wanted this so badly as a kid! I asked my mom for it (Thank God, she said no 😂). Still, though, I was absolutely in love with this commercial. Thanks for posting it. :)
