When I was a kid, one of the favourite sweets was a product
called Spangles made by Mars Ltd. They were cheap and came in a variety of
flavours ranging from the standard fruit flavours to mint, aniseed and
liquorice.
Something reminded me of them today and so I read the Wiki
article on their history. It seems they
were made between 1950 and 1984, and in the early days the marketing slogan
was:
Sweet Way to Go Gay!
Well now, are we to believe that the corporate world was ahead of the times in the matter of sexual orientation? Or was it a case of some mischievous ad-man putting one toe out of the closet? I don’t suppose we can ask him because he’s probably dead by now.
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