So true. If you made up a word, and started advertising food free of it people would buy it.
I'll do that! I'll start an entire line of Goopton free food! Many recent studies prove the dangers of goopton and it's a major health issue!
So send me money right away or die a horrible, unwashed death.
So true. If you made up a word, and started advertising food free of it people would buy it.
I'll quote this passage from Alan Abel's book "The Confessions of a Hoaxer"
Meantime, the Crazy Ad movement had begun to spreak to transportation vehicles in other cities when radio and television personalities such as Johnny Carson, Arthur Godfrey, Dave Garroway and Henry Morgan read the ads to their audiences.Godfrey read a number of the ads on his CBS radio show with Victor Borge as he guest who then asked, "Do they really put them on the buses?"
"Yes," replied Godfrey. "Very funny, too. Alan Abel tells me they got some replies. I learned long ago there are always people who will take you seriously. About twenty years ago I had a program in New York. And I was on for some cereal or other. I can't remember what it was, fortunately. When the sponsor left me I said, 'This program is brought to you by Clavintrude.' And that everybody ought to have some Clavintrude. And you could buy it by the quart in the hardware store. Don't you know, people went to the stores and asked for it? So I gave that up. No, you don't fool around with things they are serious about."