I thought it was a prerequisite for marketing executives to do a time travel trip. Get into the corporate Delorean time machine and rev that sucker up to 88 miles per hour. If the makers of Ayds Diet candy made their time travel trip, they set the flux capacitor to no later than 1981. By 1988 the sales of the product, which was spelled similar, and sounded the same as a terrible disease, dropped by 50%.

What bad luck for the popular diet candy suppressant. Being able to look backwards, provides a bit of black humor aimed at the celebrities who promoted the unfortunately named diet suppressant.

During the 1950s, the product's owner used celebrity endorsements to induce the masses to purchase the product. Posted below are some of the magazine ads, promoted by several "B" & "C" movie starlets. Either the big "A" stars didn't want to do the ad for the price that the company was willing to pay, or, they had their own personal Delorean time machine.

ZSA  ZSA GABOR (I GUESS EVA GABOR HAD THE DELOREAN)



HEDY LAMARR (NOT THE HEDLEY LAMARR CHARACTER - BLAZING SADDLES) 


JOAN BLONDELL


During the 1980s, the company used "regular" people to sell their product. In other words, celebrities didn't want to be associated with it. Posted below is a TV commercial from the early eighties.












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