Of course a new product called “Ben Gay” couldn’t be brought to market today. Do you remember the slimming product Ayds? (I loved those chewy, chocolatey little cubes! I could eat half a box at one sitting, easy.) When Aids became all the rage, the company was flummoxed. “It was our name first! Let them change the name of the disease!”) Of course it didn’t help that Aids was much more slimming than Ayds. The company was sold and the product was eventually pulled from the market.
When words become toxic.
Do they still make Hungry Man? Maybe rebrand it Dainty Delicacies and add kale as a side?
The museum in CA that has the Lucy archaeological find and a history of pre-human development used to be The Museum of Man.
I went to look it up and it has become The Museum of Us.
Take “man” out as fireman is now firefighter. Just us.
Who would have thought so many people loved those chewy chocolate cubes from way back, and that they actually killed people?
From “Team America”:
Everyone has AYDS
AYDS, AYDS, AYDS
AYDS, AYDS, AYDS
AYDS, AYDS, AYDS
Everyone has AYDS
And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AYDS
It took from me my best friend, my only true pal
My only bright star
(He died of AYDS)
Well I’m gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There’s a hero inside of all of us
I’ll make them see everyone has AYDS
My Father
(AYDS)
My sister
(AYDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend
(AYDS, AYDS, AYDS)
The gays and the straights and the white and the spades
Everyone has AYDS
My grandma and my dog ‘ol blue
(AYDS, AYDS, AYDS)
The pope has got it and so do you
(AYDS, AYDS, AYDS, AYDS, AYDS)
C’mon everybody we got quilting to do
(AYDS, AYDS, AYDS, AYDS, AYDS)
We gotta break down these barricades, everyone has
AYDS, AYDS, AYDS
AYDS, AYDS, AYDS
AYDS, AYDS, AYDS