Category: 1960s

Salvador Dalí is crazy over Lavin Chocolate

Je suis fou de Chocolate Lanvin!
I’m crazy over Lavin Chocolate!

Much of the chocolate consumed today is made into bars that combine cocoa solids, fats like cocoa butter, and sugar. Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavours in the world. Chocolate lovers are known as “chocoholics.”

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), was a Spanish (Catalan) surrealist painter. Some critics alleged Dalí was motiviated not by art but greediness, which led [leader of the surrealist movement, André] Breton to nickname him “Avida Dollars” (an anagram).

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. By the time the composer began work on the symphony, he was completely deaf.

TaB is a Mindsticker

TaB is a diet cola. It was the first diet soft drink brand produced by the Coca-Cola Company. It was introduced in 1963 and has been reformulated several times. It was initially sweetened with cyclamate. After the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a ban on cyclamate in 1969, saccharin was used.

Cyclamate is an artificial sweetener that was discovered in 1937 at the University of Illinois by graduate student Michael Sveda. Like many artificial sweeteners, the sweetness of cyclamate was discovered by accident.

Pepsi beats the others cold

The word Pepsi comes from the Greek word “pepsi” (πέψη), which is a medical term, describing the food dissolving process within one’s stomach. It is also a medical term, that describes a problem with one’s stomach to dissolve foods properly.

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. It is a speedy and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural, reliable seasonal ice cover. It is one of the four major North American professional sports, and is represented by the National Hockey League (NHL) at the highest level, and the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL), the highest level of women’s ice hockey in the world. It is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity, and is also the most popular spectator sport in Finland.

Good cooks use Tabasco

Tabasco sauce is a brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers (Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco), vinegar, and salt, and aged in white oak barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor and is popular in many parts of the world.

Seasoning is the process of adding or improving flavor of food. Seasonings include herbs, spices, and all other condiments. Salt may be used to draw out water, or to magnify a natural flavor of a food making it richer or more delicate, depending on the dish. For instance, kosher salt (a coarser-grained salt) is rubbed into chicken, lamb, and beef to tenderize the meat and improve flavor. Other seasonings like pepper and basil transfer some of their flavor to the food. A well designed dish will combine seasonings that complement each other.

Jeno’s Pizza Roll Ranger

General Mills is a Fortune 500 corporation, mainly concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The company markets such brands as Betty Crocker, Progresso, Yoplait, Old El Paso, and Pillsbury, as well as numerous well-known breakfast cereals.

Totino’s and Jeno’s are brands of frozen pizza owned by General Mills, which collectively are reportedly the best selling economy frozen pizza brands in the United States.

[Stan Freberg‘s Jeno’s Pizza Rolls commercial is a] parody of a contemporary commercial for Lark cigarettes that used the William Tell Overture, here ending with a confrontation between a cigarette smoker (supposedly representing the Lark commercial’s announcer) and Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger over the use of the music.

Bugs Bunny makes friends with Kool-Aid

Bugs Bunny is an Academy Award-winning fictional animated rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros., and is one of the most recognizable characters in the world. According to his biography, he was “born” in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York and the product of many creators.

An interesting side-effect of FDA Blue #5 (found especially in the Grape and Purplesaurus Rex flavors of Kool-Aid) causes human feces to turn green when the drink is taken in sufficient quantity. This is due to the fact that bile in the human intestine reacts with the food coloring, causing the color change. The effect is considered completely harmless, since there have been no reports of ill effects as a result of the reaction.