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true...this was also on VH1 a couple months ago....
Also from the makers of Ayd's............Cancer, use only as directed.
true...this was also on VH1 a couple months ago....
Also from the makers of Ayd's............Cancer, use only as directed.
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I posted this link in the commercial disasters story a few weeks ago. Still good fun!
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wow. i totally remember AYDS. my mom used to buy them. we always wanted to eat them, because they looked like candy. but they were her 'special' diet treats and we weren't allowed to have any. i think we ended up taking a few out of the box when she wasn't looking. don't remember anything of significance happening. wonder if they're still around?
love the Stepford women in the commerical.
I remember AYDS. They were little squares that tasted like chocolate toffees only softer and more chewy. My brother and I also got into a box of our mom's. If you've ever had a Viactiv chew, it's really close.
Apparently they didn't have a diet drug in them. They swelled up in your stomach and made you feel full. At least that what everyone thought when we were kids.
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Howard Stern has been talking about this for near 20 years. Everyonce and a while he breaks it out for a laugh.
Poor company.
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Is that the real OFFICIAL forum for this site? Cause it looks horrible and straight outa the 1995 angelfire era.
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I used to steal these out of my mom's dresser. We were both chocolate fanatics (still are). This particular candy has gone away, but the idea hasn't - go in any Whole Foods or such market and you'll sent plenty of candy bars, sticks, and bites being marketed as \"healthy\" chocolate.
Like free-range, green, organic, vitamin-and-soy-enriched chocolate that is endorsed by Oprah is, in the end, any better for my thighs than a Snickers. Ha.
I have an empty box of Ayds candy that was my grandmother's (I'm afraid to chuck it as it's so iconic). I don't know why she held on to it. Maybe the same reason I've held on to R. Crumb's Devil Girl candy box...maybe she thought she'd make a few bucks on Ebay someday. My gramma, so business savvy, and so before her time.
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I'm probably doomed to hell for it, but I watched this commercial 3 times and literally laughed out loud each time at the last line, \"Why take diet pills when you can ENJOY Ayds?\".
I was born in '81, so I don't remember this ad, but I've heard about it and I'm glad to finally see it. I thought it was an SNL skit; what a misfortunate coincidence.
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When singer Klaus Nomi died as one of New York's earliest AIDS casualties back in 1983, at least one confused news source listed his cause of death as \"an overdose of Ayds diet candy.\"
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Article: What should the marketer do to avoid possible confusion?
You change the fucking name! (They eventually did, five years after this article.)
What I really hate is how they were worried only about brand image, sales, and similar corporate BS. How about, I don't know, not offending those hurt by the AIDS epidemic? Oh wait, that's not important to the bottom line.
Personally, I think she'd be embarrassed to go anywhere because of that suit.
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@jesseraub:
Except for the fact that it had nothing relating to the candy, and they did not get the idea from it at all.
This was parodied by South Park. In one episode, Jared, the Subway guy, was saying that he lost with with aids - as in personal trainers. He also mentions at one point that he wants to personally give aids to every single overweight child.