Kellogg's All-Bran, 1936

[medren.livejournal.com]

If only she could poop, maybe she'd get a second date!

Comments

[dazedpuckbunny.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a subtle way of saying "pale" skin.

[ntkufreak.livejournal.com]

At least with hormonal acne, one can have healthy skin that heals well, and just have acne problems. Not sure about pimples as a result of... um, constipation though....

[mystical-chickn.livejournal.com]

All Bran always tasted like cardboard (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItTastesLikeFeet) to me.

[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

First time I can remember seeing "no, it doesn't solve everything" in an older ad like this, although it's also the first time I've seen the cure to acne being alluded to as taking a healthy one.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

oh hai icon twin

[dazedpuckbunny.livejournal.com]

I love how all these old ads are preachy short stories.

[whoseline_wlsc]

I have the opposite problem, and men don't seem to like that either! haha

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Diarrhea? No, I should say not!

[moonjaguar.livejournal.com]

Are they saying she didn't go to Church enough?

[baron154.livejournal.com]

"She couldn't crap- and now she's a spinster!"

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

*rimshot*

[mschilepepper.livejournal.com]

Hur hur hur, you said rim!

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Rimshot, not rim job.

[misstia]

loosen your bowels and have a social life!!!

[koneko-wish.livejournal.com]

I like how it's referred to as "bulk".

[mackinzie.livejournal.com]

It's interesting how a lot of these early 1920s-30s ads are targeted toward women using the same formula:

[Picture of contemplative or sad woman]
"[This woman or Woman's name] has only gone out on one or two "dates." But then they found out she [insert problem with breath/vajayjay/stinky/constipation/etc.]. It would have been SO much different if she had [cleaned her girly parts/washed/ate][product] Why? Because [insert long four paragraph drivel usually involving scientific crap and lots of "quotation marks" on meaningless "words"]!

[Product name]: Because you're not worth it without us. You poor, poor girl."

Yep, those were the days.

[mschilepepper.livejournal.com]

Pfft, like advertising has changed any since then?

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

Maybe she was just stuck up.

[bagecka.livejournal.com]

she was "stuck up" all right

[write-light.livejournal.com]

cripes, again with the digestive problems. are we sure it wasn't her toilet paper???????????

[anterrabre.livejournal.com]

Am I reading this right? Guys don't want to go out with her because she's constipated?

[frankymole.livejournal.com]

"Bulk"? Was "fiber" a dirty word or something?

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

They just hadn't thought it up then.

[pricklyburr.livejournal.com]

I agree. If only I could poop, I would get on that second date..*sigh*

[charlotterhys.livejournal.com]

As a girl with poo problems, being regular does improve your mood.

I don't know about acne, though.

[sugarless-girl.livejournal.com]

Women that don't poop can't have babies, trufax.

[thehappycat.livejournal.com]

How do they know her curious hairstyle and frumpy clothing didn't have anything to do with her lack of dates?

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Those shoes are pretty hot.