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7-Up has the youngest customers (1950s) (plus several similar hoax ads) (media.piefed.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
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As far as I am seeing on Snopes and CBS News, this 7-Up ad was a real ad in the 1950's.

NOTE! There is almost the same image circulating that claims to be about giving beer to infants. That is a FAKE ad. It looks virtually identical as this one, but replaces 7-Up with beer. Same baby etc.

There is also a "Soda Pop Board of America" fake ad, with the tagline, "For a Better Start in Life, Start Cola Earlier". It also features a photo of a baby, but looks different from this. That ad is also FAKE -> Hoax Ad

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My grandmother's go-to cure for nausea was 7-up and orange juice. Any grandkid that wound up staying home from school got it. She swore it had to be 7-up, even though the stuff had the same ingredients as any other lemon-lime soda. Gotta wonder how much this kind of marketing played into that insistence.

I'm just glad it was OJ and not milk.

FWIW, it works okay as a nausea remedy, but my theory is that this is just because it's got fluids, calories, and is usually palatable for someone with mild nausea.

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