I’m old enough to have seen this air as a kid. It was fine and unremarkable until one day, all of a sudden, it wasn’t.
Thanks for the time capsule, Slog tipper Elsa.
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Oh my god I loved those when I was a kid! I used to steal my mom’s. I loved the way they tasted!
I remember these too. And then one day their name suddenly went from mundane to alarming, while simultaneously their claims of miraculous weight loss received a subtle boost.
@1 I hear you…. my mom had to hide them or my bro and I would gobble them all up… should have been a sign about the real appetite suppression!
This was on the Dish yesterday: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/th…
Y’all’r making the circle just a little too tight.
Still helps you lose weight effectively. Safely? Not so much
D.S. I hate you (for obvious reasons) but that was f@%king hilarious!
Is it true that they contained tapeworm eggs?
I think Jared from Subway was on the same diet.
I recall Wayne Kotter did a joke about AYDS diet candies back in the day: “Why couldn’t they call it something that sounds like a disease, like ‘Doritos’?”
I remember (& used) Ayds in the 1970’s. I think it contained Benzocaine or something in that family to numb the tummy and that ingredient was supposed to stop hunger. They were kind of similar to Kraft caramels.
why did the product have to die? they could have just renamed the things. as i recall, they worked for my binge-and-diet grandma. they coulda called it “candi-thin” or “bon bon boon” or something.
They did rename it, but Choco-Ebolas never caught on.