Forgotten TV products

[California Cajun]

Anyone remember the Veg-O-Matic? Or Ayds candy?

Which ones do you remember from days gone by, that got tons of airplay, then disappeared off the face of the earth?

 

[life2short1971]

Flo-bee

 

[instpasr]

Mr Microphone

 

[DavyRay]

Anyone remember the Veg-O-Matic? Or Ayds candy?

Which ones do you remember from days gone by, that got tons of airplay, then disappeared off the face of the earth?

I do remember the Veg-O-Matic. I have eaten Ayds candy. What about the Ronco Pocket Fisherman? Tab cola? The Ginsu knife? Cuts through a tin can, yet can still slice a tomato?

 

[dpm802]

As recently as a few years ago, I used to see a lot of late-night infomercials advertising get-rich quick real-estate schemes ... but I'm not seeing them so much anymore.

• Buy houses with no money down.
• Buy houses by just paying the back-taxes.
• Buy houses with the ad-promoters money, all you have to do is find the listings.
• Run classified ads in thousands of newspapers at the same time, make about $10 profit on each one.
• Sublet hundreds of apartments to college students, make $50~$100 profit on each one.

 

[life2short1971]

K-tel

 

[maxman]

Ron Popeil's greatest invention.. GLH (Great Looking Hair)

 

[gollum83]

I do remember the Veg-O-Matic. I have eaten Ayds candy. What about the Ronco Pocket Fisherman? Tab cola? The Ginsu knife? Cuts through a tin can, yet can still slice a tomato?

Tab? Nah, you can still buy it, believe it or not.

 

[Jim]

Lawn darts

 

[maxman]

Lawn darts

Hey, yeah... the kind that were pointy and injured a bunch of people.
We used to have those.

 

[binowatch]

The Ronco ash tray with a little fan that sucked the smoke into its base.

 

[dpm802]

The Ronco ash tray with a little fan that sucked the smoke into its base.

I had one of those ... it works as advertised. What they don't tell you is that after a few days use, the internal filter becomes so saturated with tar that it smells up the whole room worse than if you hadn't used it in the first place.

 

[brianw]

The Owl Windchimes, and the Inside-the-eggshell-scerambler

 

[binowatch]

The Owl Windchimes, and the Inside-the-eggshell-scerambler

I once saw an interview with Ron Popiel who said the best product he ever sold was the Inside the Eggshell scrambler!!!

 

[malocchio]

BOSCO chocolate flavor for milk,beeman's gum with a golden drop of retsin,vibrasonic ,the echo chamber deluxe ,for under your dashboard

 

[Obsessed]

Remember Mr. Microphone? "Hey good looking - be back to pick you up later."

Talk about a great commercial - I'll bet that everyone old enough to have seen it remembers that line.

 

[Phog Allen]

I do remember the Veg-O-Matic. I have eaten Ayds candy. What about the Ronco Pocket Fisherman? Tab cola? The Ginsu knife? Cuts through a tin can, yet can still slice a tomato?

That was the product I was going to mention. Those things were advertised for years. "And boy does it catch fish!" We had two of them.

Regards, Todd

 

[Utopian]

Anyone remember the Veg-O-Matic?

Actually, many of the Popeil products are still being sold. The Pocket Fisherman and GLH are still being sold by Ronco. They also sell something similar to a Veg-O-Matic and the original Veg-O-Matic is still for sale in stores.

 

[Beerman]

I belive the "Ayds" candy was actually some sort of diet supplement and/or appetite suppressant-at least that's how I remember it. I've spoken to my wife, who doesn't remember this product being advertised and insists that I'm making it up, just to have a laugh at her expense. I've mentioned the "Ayds" diet plan on several occasions and she insists that there was no such thing-that I'm just trying to get her goat.

On a somewhat related note, I used to work with a woman, who had the misfortune of being named "Lavetria". I was at work one day when my wife called and asked if I didn't use to have a co-worker by that name. When I responded that I did and asked why, she said that she had just seen a TV ad for this, as a alternative to Viagra. If I were her, I would sue.


Beerman

 

[binowatch]

Ayds was a candy used as part of the Ayds diet plan-it died after the AIDS epidemic resulted in too many poor taste jokes about loosing weight with the AIDS diet plan.