Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Carnation milk - 65 Years Ago!

A cute little lady from Iowa had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation. When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in approximately the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan.

The producers wanted a rhyme beginning with 'Carnation Milk is best of all.'
She thought to herself, I know all about milk and dairy farms. I can do this!
She sent in her entry, and several weeks later, a black limo pulled up in front of her house. A man got out and said, 'Carnation LOVED your entry so much, we are here to award you $2,000 even though we will not be able to use it!'


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12 comments:

  1. elvira pajarolaJanuary 13, 2010 at 1:13 PM

    ....after I did your new exercises of your last post...(soo qiute..) I'm still smiling and continue to smile so much about the lovely old lady;....I don't want to smile alone: I have to translate this little story immediately in Italien to my hubby...he'll smile with me!!!!!
    have a wonderful evening; Sylvia!!

    ciao ciao elvira

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  2. Michael HorvathJanuary 13, 2010 at 1:52 PM

    You is bad Sylvia.

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  3. bobbieJanuary 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    That's one of the funniest I've heard in quite a while.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 13, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    You made me laugh with this one, Sylvia!

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  5. Susan at Stony RiverJanuary 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM

    That's an excellent slogan; I wonder why on earth they don't use it *nowadays*? ROFL

    $5,000 back then would have bought the whole farm. But the little verse has a cool history itself. (I love things like this!)

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  6. Sylvia KJanuary 13, 2010 at 2:34 PM

    Oh, that's so funny, Susan! I always figure things like this are probably so screwed up, made up or whatever, but some of them are still funny.

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 13, 2010 at 3:38 PM

    ROFLMAO. That made the kink in my neck go away. ROFLMAO

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  8. JennyJanuary 13, 2010 at 4:34 PM

    Totally funny and unexpected. Neat blog!

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  9. magiceyeJanuary 13, 2010 at 6:01 PM

    hilarious!!

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  10. JanieJanuary 13, 2010 at 6:04 PM

    Hilarious! Love the neck exercises below, too.

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  11. chrome3dJanuary 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM

    They knew good stuff in the 40´s too.

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  12. jabblogJanuary 14, 2010 at 2:52 AM

    That is priceless!! We both giggled at it!

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