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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Cardiac Santa

Here's the logical outcome of all the 50's candy-is-good-for-you ads: A candy-laden Santa who appears to be in the midst of pulmonary thrombosis. Ad Santas got ruddier and ruddier in this era, until they all looked like radiation burn victims.

Don't know what happened to the Fairhill line of Whitman's chocolates, but Wikipedia reports

Besides the Whitman's Sampler, Pickaninny Peppermints were also a popular Whitman confection. However, future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and, at the time, NAACP lawyer took issue with the name. In a 1941 article directed at Whitman's published in the Afro-American, Marshall urged Whitman's Candies to realize its racial insensitivity. Whitman's denied the term was racist and responded to Marshall by saying that it meant "cute colored kid." Still the product was soon dropped.


Good call, Whitman's.

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