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Beer In Ads #2184: Heineken Refreshes Loaves Of Bread

February 11, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for Heineken, from 1981. In the later 1970s, Heineken embarked on a series of ads with the tagline “Heineken Refreshes the Parts Other Beers Cannot Reach.” Many of the ads were in a sequential panel, or comic strip, format and they were intended to be humorous.

In this ad, a single-panel format, a man is riding his bicycle down a tree-lined road with three packages of Heineken tied down to the back. I can’t tell if they’re giant oil-can size cans of beer or some sort of six-pack or other size of bottles. Also on the back of the bike, though, is a ginormously long loaf of bread that stretches the width of the road and then some. Hopefully, he won’t have to travel on any narrow roads to get where he’s going, otherwise he’s screwed.

Heineken-1981-bread-bike

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Food, Heineken, History



Comments

  1. Johnny Blizzard says

    January 22, 2018 at 4:47 am

    This is a Frenchman in a beret, cycling along a characteristically tree lined French country road. He is carrying a French loaf (stick) which already has a reputation for being long.

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