These are actual commercials from the early 1980s for a product called
Ayds, an appetite suppressant candy that was marketed as an alternative to diet pills.
Ayds initially enjoyed strong sales in the 1970s and the early 1980s but when the public awareness about the disease AIDS spread the sales plumbed because the similarity of names. By 1988 the sales have dropped by 50% and later the product was withdrawn from the market.
In the Ayds commercials taglines like
Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds?,
Thank Goodness For Ayds and
Try new peanut butter Ayds where used and today offer a great humoristic value.
Try new peanut butter Ayds Video
Yet another hilarious Ayds commercial from the 1980s showing just how wrong things can get if you don't choose your product name wisely.
Are you like us feeling the desire to try the new peanut butter Ayds?
Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds? Video
This is an actual commercial from 1982 for a product called Ayds, an appetite suppressant candy that was marketed as an alternative to diet pills.
It really cracked med up watching this hilarious Ayds commercial there are just so many...
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