I guess it was just a natural progression from giving them whiskey to help with teething and to make them sleep. Personally I would have drank the booze myself. The babies can keep the pop though because I never ever drink it.
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LOL!!!! When my two oldest children were babies, we lived in the SOUTH and I raised them on bottles of sweet tea - - - in between the milk!
ReplyDeleteGuess what - - - they lived!!!
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I guess they thought it was wholesome as long as the babies didn't have teeth yet for it to rot them out! LOL Makes you wonder about some of the other old advertisements!
ReplyDeleteAmazing eh? A sugar feast for your baby, yipee.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember ever seeing that ad...crazy stuff...
ReplyDeleteAh the good old days...... got to go and water my garden with some DDT now.
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You have to get a load of the vintage cigarette ads, featuring doctors! LOL!
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My husband said he remembers those ads. Isn't that funny! Oh, I love the old days!
ReplyDeleteHoly smokes, that ranks up there with the old ads with doctors endorsing certain brands of cigarettes! Soda for babies? Hahaha... my mother thought soda the Devil's own beverage; we never had it in our house. I was shocked to find it at friends' houses, and then thought it wildly exotic.
ReplyDeleteBut Keetha -- iced tea for babies? Yikes. Although our old pediatrician (and I do mean OLD) used to tell me to give my girls tea when they were tiny, for upset tummies. Old remedies.
Oh well. my baby formula was Karo Syrup and evaporated milk! My mom raised 4 kids on that.
Times change.
Cass
Nice. Every one year old needs soda to quench their thirst!
ReplyDeleteI swear I remember coke in my baby bottle! (I am from the South, ya know) Egads!
ReplyDeleteI was never allowed pop as a child I was told it would rot my teeth! My parents oviously didn't seee this ad! LOL Thanks for following my new blog x
ReplyDeleteMy children were hyper enough without sugar overload or E numbers added to their diets,makes you wonder,does't it.Good advertising though,I wonder how much their sales went up with mums rushing out to buy this essential baby product ?? The mind boggles !!!
ReplyDeleteWho knew? This is an example of great advertising. Not in the public interest but great advertising nonetheless.
ReplyDeletehahaha i love those old ads, they crack me up. my mom never allowed pop in the house either so my bro and i would binge when at someone else's house lol.
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