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Skippy Peanut Butter (commercial, 1958)

Commercial · Don't Touch That Dial shorts · 1958 · 1 min · 109 words

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The play was canceled. Fifty to sixty years ago, people were introduced to peanut butter for the first time. They looked it over carefully. The daring and courageous bought it. Well, children loved it, but my and Pa were more critical.

They discovered it had several drawbacks. It became oily and sticky and didn't say very long. It was rather hard to digest. It didn't taste like peanuts. grown-ups never became peanut butter fans until 1933, when a new kind of peanut butter started to appear in grocery stores.

It looked different. It smelled different. It tasted different. It had practically nothing in common with the old style product.

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