Tom in Arkansas, I think she had to put all of them in to comply with truth in advertising regulations. While truth in anything nowdays and the government upholding truth (more like a hold up of truth) is quaint at best, our Corning rep where I was working during college years told me that the picture of a beautifully cooked roast (that all but filled the pan to the brim accompanied by a piece of potato and a piece of carrot, both with traces of the rich brown roasting juice and perhaps a speck of parsley) on the front of a box for some ridiculously small pan for the preparation task like the 2.5 quart saucepan, legally had to be possibile to prepare to that appearance in a Corning Ware pan, size disparity not being as important as the appearance of the finished product.
frigilux, There used to be something called the nostalgia or neuralgia channel on cable with old shows and old ads, but I gotta tell you, most of the old shows like I Married Joan, GE's answer to Westinghouse's sponsoring I Love Lucy, are extremely tiresome after you check out the early 50s kitchen and laundry appliances and watch them do a comercial or two. They are very formulaic, just like every Popeye cartoon has the pals, the fight over the boyishly androgenous Olive Oyl with the interestingly shaped nose, the spinach and the victory. I still remember the one featuring the Brotherly Love Campaign with the song coming out of every radio, "What we need is brotherly love; You can't go wrong with brotherly love... Now I don't care whose brother you love as long as it is brotherly love..." It would be a few years before I realized what a joke the writers had pulled on somewhere around 90% of the population. Then there is the one with the department store that folds out of a huge truck. One of the items that gets caught up in the fight is a wringer washer that uses the up and down suction cups to further beat up Bluto when he lands head-first in it.
Venus, the shockingly sad thing about the Wisk, Surf and Purex tabs is that they were the only dry HE formulas of their lines, but Whirlpool and other makers of FLs do not recommend them, because the new machines use so little water that the tablet sometimes does not dissolve, especially in cold water. The tablets cannot be used in the dispenser, because they are so slow to dissolve that they will be sitting there well into the rinses and they can bang around in the drum for up to 5 minutes before they either dissolve or just get trapped in something. So they have to be manually crushed. It seems like detergents are at a crossroads as to whether there is going to be any more money invested in R&D for powders or if everything is going liquid, which I don't like as well.
