Wednesday 7 October 2020

When Words Evolve.

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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