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Beer In Ads #2280: Three Rings, Spilled Milk

May 18, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Ballantine, from 1940. In this ad, part of a series progressing from one, to two, to three rings, this one shows a cat knocking over a milk bottle, creating a ring of the floor. I guess the cat keep playing with the bottle, causing it to roll and keep spilling, creating a second and then a third ring until there’s a Ballantine logo in milk on the floor and a cat who knows he’s done a good job making the “okay” sign with three raised fingers to “order the ‘handy’ way.”

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



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