I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

[venta]

It being a little chilly in our office at present, I've taken to having a mug of instant soup with my lunchtime sarnies. I get the packet out of the box in the drawer, and trot down the kitchen to the hot-water dispenser. As I go, I sing to myself... Nobody makes... soup in a cup... like Bachelors' Cup-a-Soup. Every bloody day.

That hasn't been their advertising slogan for a number of years. And it's not even Bachelors' anyway, it's some cheap knock-off called Soup in a Mug. Yet still I can't so much as look at the things without bursting into song.

Anyone else find themselves cartwheeling into advertland each time they see a particular product ?

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

I find it quite weird that adverts have the same jingles, but different words. When I went to Germany aged about 14, I was surprised to hear the TV singing what was clearly the Gilette "The best a man can get" jingle. Except it was "Der bestens für Mann" (or something)... which really didn't seem to scan at all well. I'm surprised they don't just have completely separate adverts to accommodate different languages or different product names.