I actually remember a couple of these ad champagnes. I don’t recall cola for babies but our house and many others had a small jar of coke syrup from the pharmacy for upset stomachs.

These days with all the high fructose corn syrup in everything plain old sugar is almost luxury item or even a healthy alternative. I just bought a bottle of 100% Natural Hunt’s Ketchup -with no high fructose corn syrup. On the list of ingredients right after tomato concentrate is 100% natural sugar.

Makes me wanna vomit

It was a different time and history has long roots. Many of the executives and company owners of the 1950’s & 60’s where children of the Great Depression. Things like cheap sugar were seen as a social good where even the working poor could then afford many of the same sweet treats that only the well off enjoyed.

You never know what poor feels like until you had a meal that was mostly bread and instead of butter it was lard and salt.

Cheap sugar and worst of all corn sugar is a dangerous thing. Back in the 1930 a 6oz bottle of coke-a-cola was 10 cents or about $2.80 in todays money. And for that kind money it’s easy to buy up to 4 liters of coke, even more if you purchase a bargain brand. People find that kind of abundance hard to resist.