The Ridiculously Phallic Crunchie Ads of the 1950s — jezebel.com

SCENE: Offices of London ad agency Subliminal, Persuader, & Manipulate, 1957. Subliminal: "Gentlemen: I just got off the phone with Fry's. We got a new giant bar to push, the 6D. I told them they should call it the 8D, but they said it's not twice big. I told them, who gives a fuck—we've already gone down on Freud like a five-dollar slag with this campaign, so why not go all in?" Manipulate: "I can tell you from experience that girls think 8 is the perfect size D."

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