What was The point of the "Make Room For The Mushorooms"! Ad from back in the 80"s?
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Why were we advertising mushrooms on TV? It seems bizarre looking back.
jungleddd@reddit
Slam in the lamb.
SheepherderSelect622@reddit
Wham bam thank you lamb.
They actually used this.
Quality_Cabbage@reddit
There was an advert in the 80s for electricity. As if you'd be watching on your coal-fired telly and think "hey, this new electricity stuff sounds pretty good, I might try it".
SheepherderSelect622@reddit
Ben Elton had a routine about British Gas adverts with the slogan "British Gas people are nice people":
- I'm sure they are, but why tell us? Are you gonna turn up heating saying "They're very nice people, I think we should use a bit more gas!"
LittleSadRufus@reddit
It's like the current campaign of "Bang in the beans".
Evening-Physics-6185@reddit
Pork markets?
electact@reddit
Trade bodies that represent groups of companies in a particular industry will sometimes take out adverts that just advertise the product in general because it benefits all of their members.
See also: milk
HomeworkInevitable99@reddit
The milk marketing board. Drink a pint of milk a day.
The egg marketing board: go to work on an egg.
carryoutsalt@reddit
Butter is the devil's spank by the margarine marketing board but that might have been in Viz
mhoulden@reddit
Not to mention the White Fish Authority and the Herring Industry Board. Now merged into Seafish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafish_(non-departmental_public_body)
Think_Load_3634@reddit
Watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about.
UKAOKyay@reddit (OP)
I get that but mushrooms? The mushroom marketing board?
Far-Radio856@reddit
Wait until you hear about the potato marketing board.
nbperfect@reddit
Potatoes needed marketing at one point?!
Far-Radio856@reddit
Apparently. My gran had a cookbook they released, proper hardback.
ArsePotatoes_@reddit
I recall them being known as the British Potato Council, which adds a certain something to the imagery.
Brickie78@reddit
Staying late at work, shirtsleeves rolled up, boss in a terrible mood because the Maris Piper chart is in a tail spin
Level-Courage6773@reddit
Papers flying. Briefcases slamming shut.
Spare_Ad_8880@reddit
Big Fungi. Sidenote, I have Giant Puffballs grow in the autumn, which I fry in butter with black pudding.
Neither_Process_7847@reddit
Thanks for the sudden craving! (or, good advert, Mushroom Marketing Board...)
Billy_Daftcunt@reddit
Yes, generally the farmers and retailers did benefit from this kind of advertising.
electact@reddit
The Mushroom Growers Association apparently
adymann@reddit
Nice cold, ice cold milk or gotta. lotta bottle. Stuck in my head after all these years.
BillPayers@reddit
Accrington Stanley, who... Oops sorry, wrong one!
crucible@reddit
And just to ruin it for you all:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/22/accrington-stanley-milk-advert-actor-jailed-for-liverpool
BillPayers@reddit
Bloody hell. Another case of a bad guy on film drinking milk
Martipar@reddit
In a Techmoan video Mat was demonstrating a radio and scanning through channels, the presenter on one station mentioned "Accrington Stanley" Mat said "who are they?"The comments varied between the milk advert and actually informing him of who Accrington Stanley were because they didn't get the reference.
GreekVicar@reddit
Exactly!
Acceptable-Sentence@reddit
British pork, it’s got the lot
Rob_B_@reddit
PLENTY TO GO ‘ROUND
InternalBumblebee7@reddit
Most disturbing ad I've ever seen
Rob_B_@reddit
Gives the vibe that he’d buried them all under the patio or something by the end of the day
Martipar@reddit
I just assumed he was a domestic abuser and he'd hit the family if they didn't say their meal was nice.
Acceptable-Sentence@reddit
British pork, long pig sourced locally.
Got what it takes my wife
House_Of_Thoth@reddit
Hilary Briss vibes "special stuff"
Acceptable-Sentence@reddit
https://youtu.be/2S0PlWurpv8?si=8p4uOaJKT5EskrRB
alrighttreacle11@reddit
Slam in the lamb
Mondaycomestoosoon@reddit
Trippin
Afinkawan@reddit
Before that, nobody had ever heard of mushrooms, and now they're pretty much the most popular fungal recipe ingredient, so obviously it worked.
Amazing-Visual-2919@reddit
I think it's pretty obvious who would be advertising mushrooms.
bishibashi@reddit
To market mushrooms, which were only grown here after 1982, when the SAS captured the Argentinian botanist that invented them.
BlokeyBlokeBloke@reddit
People that grow mushrooms like it when people buy mushrooms. Therefore they made ads to persuade people to buy mushrooms. The point was to sell more mushrooms so that mushroom sellers would make more money.
sihasihasi@reddit
Indeed - I'm not sure why OP is finding this hard to understand.
BlackJackKetchum@reddit
As a public service, here’s the commercial.
feetflatontheground@reddit
That's certainly memorable. I won't forget it.
FreeBogwoppits@reddit
It was just a marketing advert. It worked, here we are talking about it 40 years later.
PianoMiddle346@reddit
Good point. Surely it is obvious why any telly commercial gets made?
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