Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Remember Squoze lemonade mix? (1976)

Once upon a time, Pillsbury tried to be more than just bisquits and dinner rolls, but their other products have gradually fallen by the wayside.

Take for example Squoze lemonade drink mix, which came out in the mid-70's. The advertising promoted that the product contained half the sugar of regular lemonade.

Veteran actor John Stephenson is the voice behind the talking lemon.



Unfortunately, just like their other drink mixes (i.e. Funny Face), Pillsbury failed to crack the sales numbers of General Foods' Kool-Aid and Crystal Light, and Squoze was gone in short order.

2 comments:

Jlcolorado said...

In 1976 my younger brother and I had one of those door knob hanging add delivery routes. Our route had several hundred customers and of course we never delivered everything we were supposed to. One week we were to deliver small samples of Squoze lemonade but we decided to hang on to most of it and store it in our attic. Our cushy money making delivery job came to an end when dad found hundreds of lemonaid packs in the attic.

hobbyfan said...

And you're proud of that?