Eat! Eat! Eat! & Always Stay Thin! With Tape Worms!
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in History, Kitchen SinkMy friends, this is why there’s no such thing as a true free market. :-)
Discuss…
(Update: I mistakenly put the image in the wrong tag so it didn’t show up…so I’m sure this post made absolutely NO sense. My apologies. Fixed.)
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July 20th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Yuck! Especially the ‘Easy to Swallow!’ tagline…I’m off for a Big Mac!
July 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
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July 20th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Geez, I don’t know. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea. It would certainly help solve the obesity epidemic. It would also eliminate personal responsibility for maintaining a proper diet.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I love that the ad on this one is “Pick McCain’s VP.”
July 20th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Does sanitized mean still alive?
July 20th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
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July 20th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Yanno, Sometimes thinking outside of the box may be necessary to get things done. Sure: Its a parasite. Barasites Bad! Or so we’ve been told. Beef tapeworms appear to be the least damaging to humans, but it apparently is “Easily Transmittable”. Fortunately most people wash hands afterwards, so it would be interesting to see how this works if it were to be reintroduced.
I thought at one time there a weight cure where one would take two pills every week or so: One pill, unbeknowingst to the public, contains tapeworm larvae. The other would kill the tapeworm. The problems started happening when people would take one pill, notice the weight loss, and not take the second pill because the first was working so well.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:06 am
My seventh grade science teacher had this poster up in his room…
July 21st, 2008 at 3:43 am
Note that it states in the bottom-left corner that there are “no ill effects.” Apparently, when a tapeworm has been living inside you long enough, segments of it start to appear in your faeces. Not ill enough, hmm?
July 21st, 2008 at 3:47 am
Am I missing something here? No diets, no exercise, no BATHS? Jeez, had I known baths could reduce weight, I’d take em instead of showers.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:24 am
FAKE. Spoof. Phony nostalgia.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:30 am
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July 21st, 2008 at 5:39 am
Unfortunately tape worms don’t work that way. Take any class in parasitology (usually taught with Microbiology) and you learn all it takes to keep a 25 foot long tapeworm well fed is one extra table spoon of food. So not only is this pretty disgusting, but it also doesn’t work. Although many studies have shown intestinal parasites may prevent allergies, but really, is it worth it?
July 21st, 2008 at 6:21 am
QUOTE:
“aaron Says:
July 21st, 2008 at 12:06 am
My seventh grade science teacher had this poster up in his room…”
What were you doing in your seventh grade teacher’s bedroom in the first place????
July 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am
Jesus christ.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:57 am
Off for a Big Mac, eh? So you like getting your tapeworms the old fashioned way…
July 21st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
[...] For a silly example of how to use my Free Sales Letter Generator software, I wrote a joke ad about a tapework weight loss diet, but the joke’s on me… turns out, it’s a real diet! Here’s an actual 1920’s ad for it. [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
this is not real.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:26 am
Right. “Room” as in “Classroom.” Har har.
“Me Says:
July 21st, 2008 at 6:21 am
QUOTE:
“aaron Says:
July 21st, 2008 at 12:06 am
My seventh grade science teacher had this poster up in his room…â€
What were you doing in your seventh grade teacher’s bedroom in the first place????”
October 26th, 2008 at 6:29 am
There is no such thing as sanitized… I cannot believe they did this back then. Problem with tapeworms are that they grow within you and eat everything… if you do not keep eating to feed them, then they get restless and start twisting…which results in a sharp pain in your stomach. It’s not exactly healthy and imagine everytime you go for a poo some of it may come out. :P Sorry to say, but this is the truth… ugly and yet fact.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Wow – is this for real?! How do they sanitize them? And as for the idea of them ‘getting restless’…I just lost my appetite!!