Throwback Thursday: Brands That Take You Back

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Hey,

it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.

Had a blast this morning talking about the brands that remind us of growing

up.

It's not necessarily a brand, it's a packaging, and that is, I absolutely loved soda pop out of a glass bottle.

How dare you say soda pop?

It's one

or the other, and it's pop.

Well, we're Midwest, you know.

Right, it's pop.

No, not well, mister, not well.

The soda and the glass bottle, I mean.

Yeah, they still sell it that way, but it got real expensive.

When they took away the glass bottles, they took away a lot of the flavor.

You hear about these plastic bottles and how it kind of chews away at the plastic, so it's not just coke or whatever.

It's coke and plastic.

That's what I say, it's packaging.

Bodily harm is what they did.

Bodily harm switching from glass to plastic.

Come on that was okay All right, okay my jokes to be appreciated.

I have to beg and I'm okay with that and I understand but

First of all, I'd like to express my appreciation on how you didn't follow your advice and play hooky today.

Thank you.

Why play hooky?

This used to be my hooky when I was in school anyway.

I'd just sit home and listen to tunes.

Well, it's fun.

Second, I would like to say the Frito Bandito.

I kind of remember the jingle.

It's kind of like, I, I, I,

I, I

am the Frito Bandito.

Give me Frito's corn chips and I'll be your friend.

Frito Benpito, you must not

open.

Well, you remember that way better than I do.

The Frito's jingle I really remember was the muncha-buncha-muncha-muncha-muncha-muncha-muncha-muncha-fritos go with lunch and it gets faster and faster and I can barely sing it at regular speed.

There's another one.

I don't remember what the product was.

A little kid would come out to his mom and he'd first he said my nose is gold.

Steve Martin!

Yeah.

Hey, I have two jingles for you.

Oh, sing them.

My bony has a first name.

It's O-S-C-A-R.

My bony has a second name.

It's M-E-Y-E-R.

And if you ask me why I'll say, because Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A.

How's

that?

And the second one, yeah, how's that?

And the second one was, if it says, Libby's, Libby's, Libby's on the label, label, label, you like it, like it, like it on the table, table,

table.

and then it goes on and on but yeah I always loved that jingle and for a long time I couldn't find it and I finally found it yeah thank you I appreciate that thank you for singing the jingles

yeah

I like that.

I like that.

I'm gonna use that as a new commercial.

Especially when the lights go out.

Yes.

Yes.

When we have

power failure due to tornadoes.

Right.

My lights are always out, but I'm glad I'm lighting up something.

That's the movie you're referencing, right?

Did they film Twister in that town?

They got

flattened?

I'm talking about Cold Turkey.

Oh, Cold Turkey.

Oh, God.

That was fantastic.

Yes.

Yeah, where the whole town tries to quit smoking for that money.

Oh, yeah, that was excellent.

Yeah, I haven't seen it in years, but I loved it.

Great cast and just Norman Lear.

Norman Lear fell in love with Iowa filming that movie.

Well, why wouldn't he?

Of course.

In fact, he visited again shortly before he died, but he comes and he meets a ton of people.

Like, I think the last time was like at a mall or something.

But yeah, very cool guy, very cool guy.

I think he was at Merle Hay Mall, if I remember.

That sounds right.

Oh, yeah.

Your topic for the day, brand names.

The only thing that really stands out in my mind, the ultimate bike.

Everybody wanted a Schwinn because they were the bike of the day.

Right.

If you're a dope, though, you wanted a huffy with a banana seat.

Well, I ended up with a huffy anyway.

A huffy and a puffy.

Speaking of cold turkey.

Yes.

Hey, how's Mike Waters today?

Oh, good.

How's Farmer Dave?

Pretty good.

OK, here's my brand.

Hostess.

Hostess?

Oh, yeah.

Hostess cupcakes, ding-dongs, Twinkies.

Yeah.

Now

it's not that big and

I remember I remember going to my grandma's and she always had ding dongs hostess ding

dongs

12 in a box.

Yeah, you got more ding-dongs for your money and they were much cheaper.

The ding-dongs were huge than not so much.

You know, it used to be when you would say, look at the ding-dongs on that hostess, she would be flattered.

But now that the ding-dongs are small, it's just an insult.

But now they're small and she would just, you know, she gives you a dirty look.

She'd be embarrassed.

Yeah.

She'd be

embarrassed.

I'd like to know.

Yes.

I'd like to know why people keep...

Chocolate in your medicine cabinet.

You were talking about, uh, things as a

kid?

Yeah?

I don't know.

I've never heard of chocolate being kept in your medicine cabinet.

Well, it was X-LAC.

Oh!

Okay, well that makes sense then.

I'm going on the hard way.

Yeah, well... I'm going on the hard way.

So to speak.

Exactly.

Do they even make that stuff anymore?

I don't know.

I never took the chocolate x-lax never took it

Yeah,

you were those kids

Yeah,

yeah, and then you just watch the fun as the the school day goes on I guess I should

have just assumed that

There is something that I did not need to hear today.

Well, the one I remember is Blue Bonnet.

Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it.

I remember the jingle well.

I think that's when they first started having artificial leather.

Was that?

No, Parquet is what I'm thinking of.

Remember Parquet when Parquet would go?

butter yeah that's the other one I remember but yeah I still say if somebody's asking me to do something I say I'm on it like blue

bonnet

commercial with the white horse because I actually learned to ride on that horse.

You learned to ride on the actual Ajax horse?

Yeah, the actual Ajax horse.

How did you have access to the Ajax horse?

Well, I think by the time I started taking riding lessons, he was already retired from the commercials.

Okay.

And I lived in California and we lived near lots of farms and ranches and things.

And where I took riding lessons, they had Ajax and he was a perfect horse.

He's from the commercial and it's a commercial about

being clean so you had to be perfect.

Yeah.

That's really cool.

Yeah, it was pretty fun.

My mom at one point divorced my dad and married Mr. Clean with the bald head and stuff and all the white clothes.

That was my connection to commercial fame.

The actual Mr. Clean is my stepdad.

Weevils wobble.

You remember the Weevils?

Weevils wobble but they don't fall down.

There it is.

Yes.

Yeah, so that's that's what reminds you of your childhood

Yeah,

that's really what it's all about is the first thing to come to your mind and it brings you back to your childhood So that certainly works We got to find the commercial trucker little John

Weekday

mornings 5 30 to

10

Ah,

apartment life.

Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.

Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.

Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station apartments.

Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer.

Internet included a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.

That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.

Union Station apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes properties.

Wait, we have a washer and dryer in the apartment?