The entire commercial is hilariously weird. I don’t think Heart primarily used coffee to keep themselves going when mixing their album.

But seriously, who got Vonnegut to agree to be in a commercial for anything?

  • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m not so old I can say anything about the 80s, but in my experience people did not drink anywhere near as much coffee before Starbucks took off. Seattle was considered weird for after-morning coffee consumption, and even wake up drink was more often tea.

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      I am that old. I was born in 1977. Every single restaurant served coffee in the 80s. McDonalds did too, hence the famous coffee lawsuit. It was ubiquitous.

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        1 year ago

        Remember the dumbass commercials with ‘hidden cameras’ and ‘we replaced your coffee with instant coffee and you loved it’? I remember even as a kid thinking who the hell is dumb enough to make a commercial about this.