05.31.2007  BY WEETABIX

So, it's canned fruit in light syrup and the brand is "Cock O'The Walk", but this is one of the first commercials we've found with truly large people in it, and from the 1950s, no less. We can only surmise that in an effort to distract everyone from giggling over the name, they've got two very voluptuous ladies in gigantic bouffants dancing around and making silly faces, all the while a vaguely creepy looking guy slurps peaches right out of the can. Are they saying, "Watch out, or you'll get fat like these here fatties?" Or are they saying, "Look at how energetic these fatties are after they eat our light fruit?" Or maybe, "Hey, this guy is eating peaches. And here are two ladies with giant hair. And then the peaches again, going into his mouth. Hair. Peaches. Get it? Get it?"

We give up. We still secretly think that John Waters made this and threw it onto YouTube, because there really wasn't a brand called "Cock O'The Walk" was there? What does that even mean?



1 Comments

said:

Cock O'the Walk is an old term referring to roosters. This commercial came out in the mid 1960s and was usually shown on afternoon television in Arizona where I grew up. The two dancers became popular enough that they were invited onto the Mike Douglass show as guests. They seemed to be having a good time with their lives.

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